The Magic in Cinema
One thing that we remember from the many films we see in our lives, is the visual content, along with a word or two, and how a single mention of the film will always bring up that one bit or two that your mind sees about it.
Cinematographers are the gift to film, and for many a director out there ... without their own vision and ability to see things ... many films would be forgotten and not have the impact on an audience that it could have, or should have.
This is, for me, just a memory, of having seen a lot of films in my life, and how some of them stand out. For this reason, the film VISIONS OF LIGHT is so important to my own view and understanding of film ... you learn to see what is the director and what is the cinematographer, and in the end, you can even see how one director, or two, or three, are not the same without that person next to them.
There is no best, or worst here ... just the "memory" that makes each film stand out, and you and I love to see that all the time. Here goes:
David Watkin: Goldfinger, The Knack and How to Get It, Help!, Marat/Sade, The Bed-Sitting Room, The Devils, The Boyfriend, The Three Musketeers, The Four Musketeers, Chariots of Fire, Out of Africa
Anthony B Richmond: Sympathy For The Devil, Don't Look Now, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Bad Timing
Freddie Young: Goodbye Mr. Chips, Ivanhoe, Lust for Life, Lawrence of Arabia, Lord Jim, Doctor Zhivago, You Only Live Twice, Ryan's Daughter
Nicolas Roeg: The Masque of the Red Death, Fahrenheit 451, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Far From the Madding Crowd, Petulia, Performance, Walkabout
Douglas Slocombe: Kind Hearts and Coronets, The L-Shaped Room, The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Lion in Winter, The Music Lovers, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Both Indiana Jones films
Sacha Vierney: Hiroshima Mon Amour, A Zed and Two Noughts, The Belly of an Architect, Drowning by Numbers, The Cook The Thief His Wife and her Lover, Prospero's Books, The Pillow Book
Philippe Rousselot: The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, The Bear, Dangerous Liaisons, Henry and June, The Miracle, A River Runs Through It, Sommersby, La Reine Margot, Interview with a Vampire, The People VS Larry Flint, Planet of the Apes, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes A Game of Shadows,
Yves Angelo: Tous Les Matins du Monde, A Heart in Winter (Un couer en Hiver), The Accompanist, Germinal
Thomas Mauch: Aguirre The Wrath of God, Stroszek, Fitzcarraldo, Warchild
Alfredo Mayo: High Heels
Vittorio Storaro: The Conformist, The Spider's Stratagem, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, Agatha, Apocalypse Now (Oscar), Reds (Oscar), Ladyhawke, The Last Emperor (Oscar), The Sheltering Sky, Little Buddha, Tango, Goya in Bordeaux,
Zhang Yimou: Yellow Earth
Giuseppe Rotunno: Rocco and His Brothers, Boccaccio '70, The Leopard, The Witches, Spirits of The Dead, Candy, Fellini Satyricon, Carnal Knowledge, Roma, Love and Anarchy, Amarcord, Orchestra Rehearsal, All That Jazz, American Dreamer, Red Sonja, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Wolf
Caleb Deschanel: Being There, The Right Stuff, The Patriot, The Passion of the Christ
Jordan Cronenweth: Brewster McCloud, The Front Page, Altered States, Blade Runner, Stop Making Sense, Peggie Sue Got Married, Get Back
Sven Nykvist: The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, Persona, The Passion of Anna, The Last Run, Siddhartha, Cries and Whispers (Oscar), Black Moon, The Tennant, Autumn Sonata, Fanny and Alexander (Oscar), The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Ox, Chaplin, Sleepless in Seattle, What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Roger Pratt: Monty Python's Meaning of Life, Brazil, Mona Lisa, High Hopes, Batman, The Fisher King, Shadowlands, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, 12 Monkeys, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Lazlo Kovacs: Five Easy Pieces, The King of Marvin Gardens, Paper Moon, Shampoo, Ghostbusters, Radio Flyer, My Best Friend's Wedding
Vilmos Zsigmong: McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Deliverance, The Long Goodbye, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Deer Hunter, The Rose, Heaven's Gate, The Witches of Eastwick, Maverick
Conrad Hall: The Professionals, In Cold Blood, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Electra Glide in Blue, Marathon Man, Black Widow, Searching for Bobby Fisher, American Beauty