Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Documentary
6.6/10
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|86 min
Release Date: 2010-05-05
Overview - In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when his Technicolor camerawork was awarded for Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus. Beyond John Huston's The African Queen and King Vidor's War and Peace, the films of the British-Hungarian creative duo (The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death too) guaranteed immortality for the renowned cameraman whose career spanned seventy years.
Production Companies
Modus Operandi FilmsUK Film Council
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CinemaSerf
7/10
As much as this is a testament to the skilful artistry of Jack Cardiff, it also serves as quite an illustrative history of cinema in general. Initially selected by Technicolor to be their first trained operator in Britain, he proceeded to work with some of the most noted directors - Alfred Hitchcock, Powell & Pressburger, John Huston, Henry Hathaway - in an industry that was just coming to terms w...
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