Buffalo 66 was great. Brown Bunny was a boooooooorrrrrrreeeeee.
CHRISTOPHER DOYLE
ELLEN KURAS
RAOUL COUTARD
NESTOR ALMENDROS
LANCE ACORD
Conrad Hall
Roger Deakins
Robert Elswit
Sven Nykvist
Gregg Toland
Vittorio Storaro (for The Conformist!)
Tak Fujimoto
Stanley Kubrick (honestly, he was his own DP…the hired DP was his assistant, no?)
Slawomir Idziak by A short film about killing and Bleu (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Stephen H. Burum by Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola)
Ricardo Della Rosa by El Pasado (The Past) (Hector Babenco)
karl freund was very innovative
Dante Spinotti.
>>Vincent Gallo filmed his own cock being sucked?<<
Disturbing, isn’t it?
Emmanuel Lubezki
Deakins
Slawomir Idziak
Geoffrey Unsworth (“2001”)
David Watkin (“The Devils”)
John Alcott (“Barry Lyndon”)
Ken Kelsch. Bad Lt., The Blackout, The Funeral, Rx Mas, New Rose Hotel, Dangerous Game. I live in NYC. I don’t want or need to see this city on screen any more. It suffers from overexposure. If I were going to shoot here, Kelsch would be my one and only choice. The way he sees it feels like home to me.
Raoul Coutard – Jules and Jim Pierrot Le Fou, Contempt and Breathless is monumental
Vittorio Storaro – Apocalypse Now and Last Emperor,
Gordon Willis – Godfather, Manhattan
Christopher Doyle – In the mood for Love / Chungking Express,
-Robert Richardson_ – Casino, Kill Bill and Aviator.
honorable mention
Robby Müller – Paris, Texas
Gianni di Venanzo – 81/2
Slawomir Idziak is da bomb yo.
Doyles great too, sometimes i think he might lean a bit more toward what looks pretty as opposed to
what sways the scene or film. probably comes from his distaste of ‘hollywood’ photography.
deakins finds a nice blend between what helps the film, what puts your eyes to work, and what looks good. and that kicks ass.
i should probably find more of Eduardo Serra, Unbreakable being the only thing ive seen from him. Very impressive.
Stanley Cortez
Jack HIldyard
Lee Garmes
Henri Decae
G.R. Aldo
Eugen Schufftan
Joseph August
Joseph Walker
Lucien Ballard
William Daniels
Sven Nykvist
Pasqualino De Santis
Raoul Coutard
Piotr Sobociński
James Wong Howe
Robby Muller
chris doyle, vittorio storaro, kaminski, thierry arbogast
Emmanuel Lubezki — Children of Men and Burn After Reading are GREAT examples of his work. He’s a very amazing man.
Eduardo Serra
Gianni de Venanzo
Sven Nyquist
Raoul Coutard
Mark Lee Ping Bing
Roger Deakins
Werner Herzog
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Roger Deakins
Conrad Hall
Vittorio Storaro
Kubrick
Gordon Willis:
Not my favorite, but Savides puts out really gorgeous stuff.
I’m surprised in a place full of Godardians no one mentioned Albert Maysles! Kinda half joking and half completely serious.
I remeber the first time I was aware of what a cinematographer was capable of was seeing Richard Brooks’ In Cold Blood and learning the name Conrad Hall. He along with Gordon Willis and Sven Nykist are my top three. In a different category and working entirely within the studio system , I’d also single out Leon Shamroy for his epic sweep.
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1 Emmanuel “chivo” Lubezki
2 Raoul Coutard
3 Christopher Doyle
4 Gordon Willis
5 Sven Nykist
oldjacks…
Vilmos Zsigmond
Thomas Mauch
Roger Deakins
newjacks…
Rodrigo Prieto
Tim Orr
Lol Crawley
Forever Jack: Ed Lachman. It’s amazing how his name never turns up on these lists. I’d take his resume gladly. It’s as solid as any.
Hey KJ,
Ed Lachman!!! How true and what an amazing resume. Thanks .
James Wong Howe
being.jguerrero
Well, the answer to that would have to be yes, but even people who hate the film and find it boring—wrongly, in my opinion—usually concede that its images are often quite arresting. Of course, if you only watch the two minutes you’re referring to, you might miss that.