cinematography that you like the look of

a companion thread

http://collider.com/wp-content/image-base/Movies/D/Days_of_Heaven_Criterion/days_of_heaven_movie_image.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zGreRPcsAtg/TH4otmKyovI/AAAAAAAAB00/moRGa2U6PWA/s1600/Red+Desert+43.jpg

http://www.mondayflying.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ht7.jpg

lol I was gonna post a WKW screen but feared getting shot down by the anti-lomo crowd

http://www.cinedie.com/dvd/images/fallen_angels06.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GvSI44nGGik/TMtZEU9HBtI/AAAAAAAAAfY/jCdj-1DQCuA/s1600/fallen_angels05.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DHp2Zl7Gfbo/TRAE00afbXI/AAAAAAAAAds/fpvF2j1qjf8/s400/parapluies__1.jpg

http://gestaltmash.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/woo11.jpg

http://blacklab.visualsociety.com/files/2009/11/2046-005.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/J6KQz.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/y1fWd.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zzl_dczrSAw/SEa4GUUpClI/AAAAAAAAAT4/de-vMzf_ew4/s400/rushmore.jpg

http://www.touchtouchpublishing.com/RATCATCHER.png

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/dvdreviews27/a%20children%20of%20men/a%20children%20of%20men%20CHILDREN_OF_MEN-1(1).jpg

Yeah, man. Christopher Doyle, Dante Spinotti, Gordon Willis, Jack Cardiff, all the Steadicam pioneers ... at least, as far as color work goes.

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReviews25/a%20sweetie%20jane%20campion/a%20sweetie%20campion%20SWEETIE-9.jpg

http://llywarch.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/19_artofthetitle-com_touch_of_evil_contact.jpg

http://thoughtcatalog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/large_close_encounters_third_kind_blu-ray07.jpeg

http://cinephiliaque.yolasite.com/resources/pierrot_le_fou.jpg

http://coosacreek.org/mambo/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/400-blows-title.jpg

Drives some people batty, but I love the graininess of '70s Altman (Zsigmond, Wexler, can't remember).

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews34/mccabe%20and%20mrs.%20miller/mccabe2.jpg

http://aleprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/le-mepris-1963-5853-366540564.jpeg

http://www.unique-screenwriting.com/images/no-country-for-old-men-visuals-josh-brolin.jpg
http://thefilmist.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/no-country-for-old-men11.jpg
http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/0/0f/Swrg.jpg/600px-Swrg.jpg

Hmmmmmn...not so grainy. Will try again later.

http://i.imgur.com/BEKjS.jpg

http://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt219/Moonlightandlace/Blog%20Gallery%20Images/Icon.jpg

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ3fFvCY5kDk59-WcvgA5LmbwVFDkL9ymGlyOXVcbzSQvX1nIvG

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews30/a%20Films%20of%20Alejandro%20Jodorowsky/a%20holy%20mountain%20PDVD_000.jpg

xp - Hoped that might be bigger. Can't find any suitably-sized Stalker images on GIS.

Oh wait, maybe this will work:

http://graememitchell.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/tarkovsky_stalker.jpg

http://www.cinemademerde.com/Texas_Chainsaw_Massacre-LFdance.gif

http://img.listal.com/image/1295283/600full-the-holy-mountain-screenshot.jpg

texas chainsaw masscr. otm

http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/barry.jpg

The last few seconds of him swinging that chainsaw about is just about my favourite thing in any film ever.

http://i716.photobucket.com/albums/ww163/LeopoldPhotos/May%202009%20Films/72xj.jpg

http://www.filminamerica.com/Movies/Vertigo/vertigo21.jpg

http://www.longpauses.com/blog/02_06_08a.jpg

http://i716.photobucket.com/albums/ww163/LeopoldPhotos/May%202009%20Films/115927406_ed646ac0f2.jpg

texas chainsaw masscr. otm

― plax (ico), Thursday, January 6, 2011 10:07 AM Bookmark

The last few seconds of him swinging that chainsaw about is just about my favourite thing in any film ever.

― nate woolls, Thursday, January 6, 2011 10:09 AM Bookmark

Seriously. I wasn't brave enough to go on a GIS here at work, but the daytime shots at the beginning are beautiful.

The scene where the girl runs out of the house is even more heartbreaking because of the vibrant blue sky and puffy clouds.

http://i5.lulzimg.com/i/29bb6ddb.png

i like all the solar flaring also

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http://leetleech.org/images/73264687270464313436.png

http://thehundredinthehands.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/badlands_pic5.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/W9hoU.jpg

http://notthebeastmaster.typepad.com/weblog/images/the_third_man.jpg

http://flavorwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/351299121_341d9fbca9_o.jpg

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/03_03/thirdman1803_468x374.jpg

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews41/the%20texas%20chainsaw%20massacre%20blu-ray/800%20texas%20chainsaw%20massacre%20blu-ray4.jpg

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews41/the%20texas%20chainsaw%20massacre%20blu-ray/800%20texas%20chainsaw%20massacre%20blu-ray9.jpg

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews41/the%20texas%20chainsaw%20massacre%20blu-ray/800%20texas%20chainsaw%20massacre%20blu-ray10.jpg

If this doesn't take, I'm giving up (the graininess of Altman's films doesn't translate well to a computer image):

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Cvo4jwbe8wE/SgTdnGKrpeI/AAAAAAAACas/WQQa1wQ9hKE/s400/LongGoodbye7.jpg

RIP William Lubtchansky

http://cinematrices.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/pontdunord5.jpg
http://isohunt.com/img.php?mode=release&path=312621.jpg
http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/duelle44.jpg
http://www.doclisboa.org/en_filmesAaZ/filmes/fotos/filme_T10.jpg

A: Right. Yeah, right. I know. I give Redford a lot of credit for pushing that through. He was very funny, actually. [laugh] Bob and Dustin. I'll tell you, you have time for a funny story about those two?

Q: Uh, yeah.

A: I was going home one night and I was going by the office and Bob was getting ready to go home and he said, how's it going? I said, oh great, how about you? And he said, I don't know, he says, Dustin has all the good lines. And then I'm talking to Dustin on the set: “Bob is better looking than I am.” I said, really? [laugh] I said, now what? So about a week later, we're ready to shoot and we blocked and the actors went away and then, OK, let's go. And I came back again and Dustin's the last one to step in. He comes in and he looks like Geronimo. He's got makeup on which is like five shades darker than anyone standing there. It's red, brown--so I said, hey, hang on a second, what are you doing? He said, what do you mean? I said, we can't shoot you, you look very, very dark, you'll have to take that off. So he goes back. Comes back with a normal makeup on. OK. Week goes by, same action--I'm ready to go, everybody steps in. He steps back in and, again, he looks like Geronimo. I said, what the hell's going on here? I was a little too loud. I said, we can't shoot this way. I call the makeup girl at night--that night--I said, what the hell are you doing? And then I realized, and I said, oh, I'm sorry, I shouldn't be yelling. She said, he wants this makeup, and I said, OK, all right, I understand now. So he was so paranoid about not looking handsome, as good as Bob looked, that he was putting all this makeup on. I said to him, you look great. You look like Dustin. You look terrific. You can't put this all over your face. It was so funny in retrospect, now. It was very irritating at the time.

Amazing

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6DSDtNT4Upk/UidMWpsdGPI/AAAAAAAAAYY/2K9hXdEjf6w/s640/SB17.png

As part of the Altman series here this summer, Vilmos Zsigmond will be introducing McCabe & Mrs. Miller.

http://media.theiapolis.com/b000000/d4/hEL/i1XM4/t3/wJG/chuck-norris-as-colt-in-the-way-of-the-dragon.jpg

er
http://media.theiapolis.com/b000000/d4/hLC/i1XM4/k2/l1P5/s6/t3/wSG/y04/chuck-norris-as-colt-in-the-way-of-the-dragon.jpg?cdn=1403578807

durr

one more try
http://media.theiapolis.com/d4/hEW/i1XM4/k4/l1Y7F/wZJ/chuck-norris-as-colt-in-the-way-of-the-dragon.jpg

lol

that's such a great shot...

Matt Z Seitz remembrance/interview with Haskell Wexler (i watched one of his first significant credits, The Savage Eye, on Saturday night):

http://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/MZS-QA-with-Haskell-Wexler

Glenn Kenny on auteurism and Vilmos Zsigmond

http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2016/01/vilmos-zsigmond-1930-2016.html

“On Close Encounters, we started with the concept that the whole movie should look like a documentary,” Zsigmond told Jon Silberg in a 2004 interview for American Cinematographer. When he arrived at the set for the big mothership arrival sequence, “I asked Steven, ‘When are we going to get the lights?’ and he said, ‘It’s lit.’ He wanted the scene to be lit up by those stadium lights…. I said I thought we needed a lot more lights for the spaceships… [W]e should create something almost like a light show. Well, Steven realized this could be much more effective than his original concept—he’s no dummy, you know!—and he asked me, ‘What do you need in order to do that?’ And I said, ‘I need a lot of light, 10Ks, HMIs, all kinds of big lights.’ So Steven said, ‘Vilmos needs lights!’ And then many, many lights started to arrive, along with more and more generators to power them. That beautiful 30-minute segment of the movie eventually got me an Academy Award!”

https://www.theasc.com/magazine/oct04/vilmos/page1.html

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-vilmos-zsigmond-1930-2015

... of why he prefers film over video, he said, "Too sharp, too much detail in the faces and all that. The faces sometimes look terrible. We need to diffuse them. I always get the best cameras and make it with bad lenses.”

http://filmmakermagazine.com/87150-old-faded-pictures-vilmos-zsigmond-on-mccabe-mrs-miller/

Rest in peace, Vilmos Szigmond.

hard to zspell

a poll/listicle by Keyframe of the greatest cinematography ever... Good comments throughout.

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/video-the-best-cinematography-of-all-time

http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/cinematographers-pick-their-favorite-films-of-all-time.html

James Wong Howe is the Google doodle today.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-67urbxG3G4w/VKfrVhE8XzI/AAAAAAAAQoA/7PEMaCIQiz4/s1600/Sweet%2BSmell%2Bof%2BSuccess%2B(8).png

loved this bad guy's lair from Marathon Man

http://imgur.com/rTL9TIk

http://imgur.com/ZsbV1kL

http://i.imgur.com/rTL9TIk.png

http://i.imgur.com/ZsbV1kL.png

Conrad Hall--I thought he was the last AA winner for B&W cinematography when they still gave out a separate award, but I checked, and it was the year before when they gave out the last one.

RIP Robby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa6n0tPn0gk

rip robby. what a gorgeous tribute, thx for posting that morbs!

btw he was never nominated for an Oscar, if you need a reminder about what bullshit that bunch is.

The other night I sat down to watch Bogdanovich's They All Laughed and was surprised to find that Muller was the DP. New York looks good - but the movie is insufferably arch and I gave up after 20 minutes or so. I'm not a Tarantino hater by any means, but his claim that this one is a masterpiece is indefensible.

I gave up at a similar point... but Muller also did Bogdanovich's Saint Jack, shot on location in Singapore with Ben Gazzara, a film I like a lot.

Sounds like I picked the wrong Bog/Mul joint to screen (doesn't seem to be an easily/cheaply available Region 2 disc of Saint Jack, unfortunately)

Oh wow St. Jack is my favorite Bogdanovich. The "making of " book is great, too.

Watched "The American Friend" for the hundredth time the day I heard Muller passed. The quality of light, among other things in that film, is remarkable.

ASC picks the top 100 milestone films in 20th century cinematography:

https://theasc.com/news/asc-unveils-list-of-100-milestone-films-in-cinematography-of-the-20th-century

1. Lawrence of Arabia (1962), shot by Freddie Young, BSC (Dir. David Lean)
2. Blade Runner (1982), shot by Jordan Cronenweth, ASC (Dir. Ridley Scott)
3. Apocalypse Now (1979), shot by Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC (Dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
4. Citizen Kane (1941), shot by Gregg Toland, ASC (Dir. Orson Welles)
5. The Godfather (1972), shot by Gordon Willis, ASC (Dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
6. Raging Bull (1980), shot by Michael Chapman, ASC (Dir. Martin Scorsese)
7. The Conformist (1970), shot by Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC (Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci)
8. Days of Heaven (1978), shot by Néstor Almendros, ASC (Dir. Terrence Malick)
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), shot by Geoffrey Unsworth, BSC with additional photography by John Alcott, BSC (Dir. Stanley Kubrick)
10. The French Connection (1971), shot by Owen Roizman, ASC (Dir. William Friedkin)

does steven fierberg keep a toy skull in every room of his house? but seriously, it's a solid list, even if I think Roizman's films are ugly.

Same, though I guess French Connection was trend-settingly ugly.

John Alton dissed

No way!

OK, I'll ask. Which of his many, many films would you say stands out from the pack?

a little noir called The Big Combo, honeybunch.

Well, I guess if Being There, Mississippi Burning, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest were considered canonical enough examples of cinematography, then yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIeWSQM7Zgo

(wtf was Oscar thinking in 2008 and 2009?)

2008 was the last real Oscar juggernaut (maybe ever), and 2009 was a big mistake.

I was going to guffaw over the '74 award, The Towering Inferno over Godfather II and Chinatown, but it turns out Godfather II wasn't even nominated. Earthquake was, though.

(Full disclosure: I have never seen The Towering Inferno or Earthquake. Maybe they look fantastic.)

Towering Inferno looks p great imo & i think v impressive for its time- and I do recommend it, it is PEAK cavalcade of stars disaster movie

I dont remember Earthquake being all that amazing tho? but it was so fkn long & i spent most of its runtime yelling at Charlton Heston for being a dickbag to everyone so i am probably not remembering it in its full glory

This shot sums up Towering Inferno: It looks good and is completely ridiculous.

https://i.imgur.com/KpXepYV.jpg

Where you go, haha wtf, no that's awesome

https://i.imgur.com/XfvWERw.gif

Fuckit, Towering Inferno shoulda won a Grammy for Cinematography too.

https://i.imgur.com/oV3SRd6.gif

HARD AGREE

everyone should watch Towering Inferno

Honestly--this isn't meant to be mean or snobbish or anything like that. I'm laughing--with you, I think!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHkvD7-u7y8

Playing to type with an SCTV clip negates any hard feelings.

They should've given equal billing to McQueen, Newman, and that lamp up in that last gif.

otm, lamp was robbed