FAVORITE CINEMATOGRAPHERS

[storaroing]

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You actually heard vittorio storaro speak in a lecture!? now way!?

[ralf23]

Christopher Doyle(mainstain of Wong Kar Wai)
Noboru Shinoda

[Blongkoy]

Christopher Doyle(mainstain of Wong Kar Wai)

Thanks, ralf23. I have been wiggling and waggling for the family name of this great Australian cinematographer who is now working in HongKong --- Christopher Somebody? Christopher Something?

I am here trying to recall from memory. It has failed many times.

If you have it, may I know his Chinese name? this is simply for a more rounded knowledge of this first class, visually articulate cinematographer who is a magician with lights.

[Blongkoy]

Friday last week we were shown clippings of two or three clips from celebrated Russian films in a lecture on European Cinema by Prof. Ed Piano at the glossy USC/CAFA Digital Theater.

I am interested to have the name or names of that or those Russian cinematographer/s who DoPed or operated the camera for those film/s. The style of the shots was simply "long shot (at its widest), long take."

One sequence was shot with one camera gliding, flying, dollying, craning all over the place before it was brought down in a swimming pool where atmospheric actors were playing their parts underwater --- all of some 4 or 5 minutes at a time when cameras were as bulky a monster as the then omnipresent one coming from Bell and Howell. Or that opening shot of "Yo Suy Cuba" --- from a long aerial establishing Cuba down to the hull of an outrigger for a worm's eye view of the boatman --- all in one uncut sweep.

[MrBiddle]

I am interested to have the name or names of that or those Russian cinematographer/s who DoPed or operated the camera for those film/s. The style of the shots was simply "long shot (at its widest), long take."

His name is Sergei Urusevsky

The now famous long take that begins at the top of the hotel, then winds around and down into the swimming pool, originally come out of the water and continued. The camera was hand held, passed from crewmember to crewmember, to make its way down the side of the hotel into the pool. The camera lens had been equipped with a high speed, spinning glass disk taken from a submarine periscope. The spinning disk was installed to fling water drops of the lens when the camera emerged from the swimming pool at the end of the shot. Much to the disappointment of the camera crew, director 'Mikheil Kalatozishvili' cut the end of the take, ending it underwater.

[ralf23]

Christopher Doyle is To Ho-Fung in Chinese.

[berserker]

John Toll.....

[Blongkoy]

Christopher Doyle is To Ho-Fung in Chinese.

Thank you.

[K|D]

Bill Pope

[MrBiddle]

Matthew Libatique (Filipino parents)

Halata kaayo, especially when you see his face (I've seen him in the Phone Booth featurette)