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Steven Poster

Steven Poster was born and raised In Chicago, and was first interested in still photography. He studied at Southern Illinois University, Los Angeles Art Center College of Design, and the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He first filmed commercials and documentaries. He then worked on "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "Blade Runner"... See full bio »

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Filmography

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2013 The Miles Davis Documentary (TV documentary) (completed)
 
2013 Hemlock Grove (TV series)
Jellyfish in the Sky (2013) (director of photography)
 
2011 Xelerate (short)
 
2011 Flypaper
 
2009/I The Box (director of photography / as Steven B. Poster)
 
2009 Spread
 
2008 Raising the Bar (TV series)
Pilot (2008) (director of photography)
 
2006 The Danny Comden Project (TV movie) (as Steven B. Poster)
 
2006 Southland Tales (director of photography)
 
2006 The Loop (TV series)
Pilot (2006) (director of photography)
 
2005 Mrs. Harris (TV movie) (director of photography)
 
2004 Tap Heat (short)
 
2003 Daddy Day Care
 
2002 Stuart Little 2 (director of photography)
 
2001 Donnie Darko (director of photography)
 
2001 The Oscar Legacy (documentary)
 
1998 Une chance sur deux (as Steven B. Poster)
 
1998 The American Experience (TV series documentary)
A Midwife's Tale (1998) (director of photography / as Steven B. Poster)
 
1997 RocketMan
 
1997 Color of Justice (TV movie) (as Steven B. Poster)
 
1997 Boys Life 2 (segment "Nunzio's Second Cousin" / as Steven B. Poster)
 
1996 Once You Meet a Stranger (TV movie)
 
1995 Present Tense, Past Perfect (TV short)
 
1994 Roswell (TV movie) (director of photography)
 
1992 The Bat, the Cat, and the Penguin (TV documentary) (director of photography)
 
1991 Life Stinks (director of photography)
 
1990 Rocky V (director of photography)
 
1990 Madonna: The Immaculate Collection (video) (video "Like a Prayer" / as Steven B. Poster)
 
1990 Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special (TV movie) (as Steven B. Poster)
 
1990 Opportunity Knocks (director of photography)
 
1989 Next of Kin
 
1988 Big Top Pee-wee
 
1988 Aloha Summer
 
1987 Someone to Watch Over Me (director of photography)
 
1987 I'll Take Manhattan (TV mini-series) (as Steven B. Poster)
 
1986 Courage (TV movie)
 
1986 The Boy Who Could Fly (director of photography)
 
1986 Blue City
 
1985 The Heavenly Kid (director of photography)
 
1985 The New Kids (director of photography)
 
1983 Testament (director of photography)
 
1983 The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew (director of photography)
 
1983 The Cradle Will Fall (TV movie) (director of photography)
 
1983 Spring Break (director of photography)
 
1982 Mysterious Two (TV movie)
 
1981 Coward of the County (TV movie) (as Steven B. Poster)
 
1981 Dead & Buried (as Steve Poster)
 
1980 Blood Beach
 
1979 Beggarman, Thief (TV movie)
 
1979 The Night Rider (TV movie)
 
1978 What Really Happened to the Class of '65? (TV series)
Mr. Potential (1978) (director of photography / as Steven B. Poster)
 
1973 Another Saturday Night (short)
 
Show ShowCamera and Electrical Department (14 titles)
2003 Looney Tunes: Back in Action (additional photography)
 
2000 Unbreakable (director of photography: second unit)
 
2000 Mission to Mars (director of photography: second unit, Jordan)
 
1999 The Rage: Carrie 2 (camera operator: second unit - as Steven B. Poster)
 
1998 BASEketball (director of photography: additional photography - as Steve Poster)
 
1996 The Crow: City of Angels (director of photography: additional photography)
 
1986 Big Trouble in Little China (director of photography: second unit - as Steve Poster)
 
1984 The River (director of photography: second unit - as Steven B. Poster)
 
1984 Starman (director of photography: second unit - as Steve Poster)
 
1982 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (additional photographer)
 
1982 Blade Runner (additional photographer)
 
1978 A Wedding (camera operator - as Steve Poster)
 
1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (director of photography: second unit - as Steve Poster)
 
1967 The Girl, the Body, and the Pill (camera operator - as Steve Poster)
 
Show ShowDirector (1 title)
1973 Another Saturday Night (short)
 
Show ShowThanks (2 titles)
2002 The Least of These (short) (special thanks - as Steven B. Poster)
 
1992 Visions of Light (documentary) (special thanks: AFI - as Steven B. Poster)
 
Show ShowSelf (10 titles)
2008 No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos (documentary)
Himself (as Steven B. Poster)
 
2008 Filmnut (TV series)
Himself
An interview with Steven Poster (2008) … Himself (as Steven B. Poster)
 
2008 USIDent TV: Surveilling the Southland (video documentary short)
Himself (as Steven B. Poster)
 
2007 The Light That Burns: Remembering Jordan Cronenweth (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2007 Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (video documentary)
Himself (as Steven B. Poster)
 
2006 Cinematographer Style (documentary)
Himself (as Steven B. Poster)
 
2006 Who Needs Sleep? (documentary) (as Steven B. Poster)
 
2004 'Donnie Darko': Production Diary (video documentary)
Himself
 
2003 Testament at 20 (video documentary short)
Himself (as Steven B. Poster)
 
2001 Anatomy of a Scene (TV series documentary)
Himself
Donnie Darko (2001) … Himself (as Steven B. Poster)
 

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No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos -- NO SUBTITLES NECESSARY: LASZLO AND VILMOS.
The lifelong friendship of the great cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond and their impact on American cinema. As film students in Hungary, Laszlo and Vilmos took to the war-torn streets of Budapest to shoot footage of the Russian invasion, and subsequently volunteered to smuggle it out of the country. Barely escaping with their lives, the two friends fled to America and settled in Hollywood, eventually saving enough money to buy their own 16mm camera. 

After working on a string of low-budget horror and biker movies, both men soon rose to prominence in the late 60's and 70's, shooting the films that defined what came to be known as the American New Wave: Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Deliverance, Paper Moon, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and more. Working with directors including Robert Altman, Bob Rafelson, Peter Bogdanovich, and Martin Scorsese, they helped create a new American film aesthetic, and pioneered innovative, fearless ways to tell stories.

“When it comes to Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond, it's clear that the American New Wave of the late 1960's and early '70s wouldn't have flowered as it did without them." 	
 – Leonard  Maltin

Told through interviews with Laszlo (who died in 2007) and Vilmos, as well as directors including Rafelson, Bogdanovich, John Boorman, Graeme Clifford, Richard Donner, William Richert, Mark Rydell, composer John Williams and actors such as Jon Voight, Peter Fonda, Sandra Bullock, Karen Black, Dennis Hopper and Sharon Stone, NO SUBTITLES NECESSARY is an intimate portrait of two giants of modern imagemaking and their deep bond of brotherhood that transcended every imaginable boundary. Two heroes. One road. 
Flypaper -- A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at the same bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love. The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew -- Canada's most famous hosers, Bob and Doug McKenzie, get jobs at the Elsinore Brewery, only to learn that something is rotten with the state of it.
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Member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) since 1987. Served as President from 2002 to 2003. See more »

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