Cinematographer Style (2006)

User Rating:

7.4/10   

Director:

Jon Fauer

Writers:

Volker Bahnemann (story)
Jon Fauer (story)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

110 of the world's top cinematographers discuss the art of how and why films look the way they do.

Plot Keywords:

Cinematography

Cast

Remi Adefarasin	...	Himself
Russ T. Alsobrook	...	Himself (as Russ Alsobrook)
Howard A. Anderson	...	Himself (as Howard Anderson Jr.)
Howard A. Anderson III	...	Himself (as Howard Anderson III)
Peter Anderson	...	Himself
Michael Ballhaus	...	Himself
Dion Beebe	...	Himself
Bill Bennett	...	Himself
Gabriel Beristain	...	Himself
Lawrence Bridges	...	Himself (as Larry Bridges)
Jonathan Brown	...	Himself
Stephen H. Burum	...	Himself
Bill Butler	...	Himself
Bobby Byrne	...	Himself
Russell Carpenter	...	Himself
James Chressanthis	...	Himself
Peter Lyons Collister	...	Himself (as Peter Collister)
Jack Cooperman	...	Himself
Ericson Core	...	Himself
Richard Crudo	...	Himself (as Richard P. Crudo)
Dean Cundey	...	Himself
Oliver Curtis	...	Himself
Allen Daviau	...	Himself
Roger Deakins	...	Himself
Peter Deming	...	Himself
Caleb Deschanel	...	Himself
Ron Dexter	...	Himself
Richard Edlund	...	Himself
Jon Fauer	...	Himself
Don E. FauntLeRoy	...	Himself (as Don Fauntleroy)
Steven Fierberg	...	Himself
William A. Fraker	...	Himself
Michael Goi	...	Himself
Stephen Goldblatt	...	Himself
Adam Greenberg	...	Himself
Robbie Greenberg	...	Himself
Jack N. Green	...	Himself (as Jack Green)
Henner Hofmann	...	Himself
Ernest Holzman	...	Himself (as Ernie Holzman)
Gil Hubbs	...	Himself
Judy Irola	...	Herself
Mark Irwin	...	Himself
Levie Isaacks	...	Himself
Johnny E. Jensen	...	Himself (as Johnny Jensen)
Victor J. Kemper	...	Himself
Francis Kenny	...	Himself
Richard H. Kline	...	Himself (as Richard Kline)
Fred J. Koenekamp	...	Himself (as Fred Koenekamp)
László Kovács	...	Himself (as Laszlo Kovaks)
Ellen Kuras	...	Herself
Jacek Laskus	...	Himself
Andrew Laszlo	...	Himself
Denis Lenoir	...	Himself
Matthew F. Leonetti	...	Himself
Peter Levy	...	Himself
Matthew Libatique	...	Himself
Stephen Lighthill	...	Himself
Karl Walter Lindenlaub	...	Himself (as Walter Lindenlaub)
Bruce Logan	...	Himself
Julio Macat	...	Himself
Isidore Mankofsky	...	Himself
Chris Manley	...	Himself
Steve Mason	...	Himself
J. Clark Mathis	...	Himself (as Clark Mathis)
Don McCuaig	...	Himself (as Donald McCuaig)
Robert McLachlan	...	Himself
Charles Minsky	...	Himself
Donald M. Morgan	...	Himself
Kramer Morgenthau	...	Himself
M. David Mullen	...	Himself
Fred Murphy	...	Himself
Hiro Narita	...	Himself
Michael Negrin	...	Himself
Sol Negrin	...	Himself
Daryn Okada	...	Himself
Woody Omens	...	Himself
Daniel Pearl	...	Himself
Ferne Pearlstein	...	Herself
Wally Pfister	...	Himself
Bill Pope	...	Himself
Steven Poster	...	Himself (as Steven B. Poster)
Robert Primes	...	Himself
Anthony B. Richmond	...	Himself (as Anthony Richmond)
Owen Roizman	...	Himself
Pete Romano	...	Himself
Paul Ryan	...	Himself
Nancy Schreiber	...	Herself
John Schwartzman	...	Himself
John Seale	...	Himself
Dean Semler	...	Himself
Michael Seresin	...	Himself
Steven Shaw	...	Himself
Newton Thomas Sigel	...	Himself
Bradley B. Six	...	Himself
Dante Spinotti	...	Himself
George Spiro Dibie	...	Himself
Ueli Steiger	...	Himself
Tom Stern	...	Himself
Vittorio Storaro	...	Himself
Rodney Taylor	...	Himself
John Toll	...	Himself
Kees Van Oostrum	...	Himself
Amy Vincent	...	Herself (as Amelia Vincent)
Haskell Wexler	...	Himself
Gordon Willis	...	Himself
Ralph Woolsey	...	Himself
Robert D. Yeoman	...	Himself (as Robert Yeoman)
Vilmos Zsigmond	...	Himself

Runtime:

USA:86 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Filming Locations:

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Company:

T-Stop Production

Movie Connections:

References The Rock (1996)

Cinematographers Speak

Should do for Cinematography what "Blow Up" did for stills.

Thank you for this film! It eloquently verbalizes through all these cinematographers' voices the very thing which probably drew most of us to work in this industry: to be where art meets technology, and where technology expands art. It is refreshing to hear your interview partners talk about this magic moment again and again.

Really, I hope to be able to see the 10 hour version, because in many statements of the film I wondered what other interesting story or insight would have followed - after the deep breath, after the cut.

I was happy with the structure of the film. It is the ultimate talking heads film. Because the line of thought going through all the interviews kept me very much attentive. This way all the various statements of different personalities transformed themselves into one statement of one person, the "über"-cinematographer, and thus became tremendously true.

In the film there are moments with a very special magic on its own: when Vittorio Storaro moves the light bulb around, or when Roger Deakins demands a different focal length. This is something film can do beyond recording voices and expressions in faces.

I'm thankful for this. I want more.