Production began in 1956 and lasted 15 years, during which the star Meena Kumari and director Kamal Amrohi divorced, the cinematographer Josef Wirsching died, and the film shoot was abandoned for five years. Wh
It was made by American producer, director and cinematographer, Armando Acosta using the feral cats of Venice, New York, and Ghent as actors, with the voices dubbed by some of the greats of the English theatre including Ben Kingsley, Maggie Smith, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Powell,...
This fascinating documentary offers an in-depth look at the life and career of legendary British cinematographer Jack Cardiff, who worked with some of the biggest names in Hollywood and helped revolutionize the art of filmmaking with his groundbreaking work in Technicolor. Through interviews, archival...
Before ‘The Wild Bunch,’ there was Richard Brooks’ marvelous ode to friendship, loyalty, and disillusionment: A prestigious film that earned two Oscar nominations for Brooks (director and adapted script) and cinematographer Conrad Hall. While it lacked the stylistic bravado and fatalistic doom of...
His first Oscar nom for supporting actor came with his portrayal of Arnie, a mentally disabled teenager, in Lasse Hallström’s “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” (1993). Despite receiving critical acclaim, it would be another 11 years before he returned to the Oscars. During that period, ...
Filled with wild stunts, colorful characters, crushed chassis and fearless camerawork, director Richard C. Sarafian and cinematographer John Alonzo’s race across the Southwest has gained a cult reputation as one of the rowdiest rides in American cinema and a meditation on the nature of being, ...
he's just peerless. Boarding his train-bound thriller are folk musicologist Gilbert (Michael Redgrave) and his new companion Iris (Margaret Lockwood), a smart woman heading home to marry her "blue-blooded cheque chaser", who find them themselves trapped among some trigger-happy agents. When fus...
"There for nine months in subzero temperatures in Calgary, real locations, far-off locations, we looked at this as a grand sort of artistic experiment," DiCapriotold CBS News' Charlie Rose. "We rehearsed meticulously all day long with [cinematographer] Chivo [Lubezki] and [director] Alejandro...
The film in the end was not bad, and beautifully shot by the famous cinematographerJames Wong Howe. Though it was just a filmed stage play with a fixed camera,Peter Panthe play was so beloved in the US that the film opened in New York to fantastic reviews. It made Bronson famous, immed...
The visual palette alone was a stark contrast to what came before, as cinematographer Michael Seresin cast a cold, grey shadow over the look of the film to give it more of a hardened edge. In forcing the characters and the franchise itself to grow up, Cuarón delivered the best “Harry ...