Michael Ballhaus
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Biography: Michael Ballhaus, A.S.C. (August 5, 1935 – April 12, 2017) was a German cinematographer who collaborated with directors such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Martin Scorsese, Mike Nichols, James L. Brooks, and Wolfgang Petersen. He was a member of both the Academy of Arts, Berlin, and the American Society of Cinematographers.
Department: Camera
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Birthday: August 05, 1935
Deathday: April 11, 2017
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Gender: Male
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The Marriage of Maria Braun
Overview: Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-03-23
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Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte
Overview: This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-07-03
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Boogie Nights
Overview: Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole world seems to know his porn alter ego, "Dirk Diggler". Now, when disco and drugs are in vogue, fashion is in flux and the party never seems to stop, Adams' dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-10
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I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
Overview: A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-06-11
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Side by Side
Overview: Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Keanu Reeves explores the development of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Hollywood masters, such as James Cameron, David Fincher, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Soderbergh, and many more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-19
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Visions of Light
Overview: Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of photography), illustrating their points with clips from 100 films, from Birth of a Nation to Do the Right Thing. Themes: the DP tells people where to look; changes in movies (the arrival of sound, color, and wide screens) required creative responses from DPs; and, these artisans constantly invent new equipment and try new things, with wonderful results. The narration takes us through the identifiable studio styles of the 30s, the emergence of noir, the New York look, and the impact of Europeans. Citizen Kane, The Conformist, and Gordon Willis get special attention.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-17
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Satan’s Brew
Overview: A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his dim-witted brother, and a murder investigation.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-10-07
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Fassbinder in Hollywood
Overview: Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of 36, was influenced greatly by Amercian studio films of the 1950s and the convention of melodrama (the link most often mentioned is Douglas Sirk).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-02
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Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Overview: Playwright Arthur Miller, director Volker Schlöndorff and actor Dustin Hoffman are seen creating the Roxbury Productions and Punch Productions teleplay Death of a Salesman (1985).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-23
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Little Godard
Overview: The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources if nothing else. Hellmuth Costard places these basic prerequisites at the centre of his film: using a Super 8 camera system he developed, he films himself as he tries to raise funding for his film project. This creates an unconventional experimental setup, which reveals how the economics, politics, technology and aesthetics of filmmaking relate to each other – with the ‘great’ Godard being called up as a kind of chief witness.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-06-08
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Who is Helene Schwarz?
Overview: Only the chosen few know this woman who started working as a secretary for the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) on 13 February, 1966. The path of Helen’s career is paved with famous names – including that of Wolfgang Petersen, Holger Meins (who later became a member of the Red Army Faction) as well as directors Wolfgang Becker, Detlev Buck and Christian Petzold. All have fond memories of forgetting their troubles after having poured their hearts out over a cup of coffee in Helene’s office – for Helene was both friend and advisor to countless film students.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-02-13
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Mister Karl
Overview: A documentary about the life of Karlheinz Böhm from his film career to his charity activities in Ethiopia.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-30
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Martha
Overview: After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous husband whom she begins to suspect may be trying to murder her.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-05-28
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Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies.
Overview: Short documentary on the making of Francis Ford Coppola's "Dracula" (1992).
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'
Overview: A documentary that presents a brief yet detailed account on the making of Martin Scorsese's "GoodFellas" (1990), the successful film that redefined the mafia on the big screen. Featuring interviews with cast and crew and clips from the movie, this retrospective documentary reveals the behind-the-scenes experiences of what would turn out to be one of the greatest films ever made.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-17
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Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk
Overview: Documentary about the shooting of BOURBON STREET BLUES.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-18
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder's World on a Wire: Looking Ahead to Today
Overview: A retrospective look at the making of "World on a Wire".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-02-18
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Starbuck Holger Meins
Overview: Twenty-five years after the death of Holger Meins, filmmaker and former student friend of the deceased, Gerd Conradt takes an in-depth look at the helmsman of the Baader-Meinhof gang. Who was Holger Meins? What led him into the underground? What circumstances resulted in his death, a death which made him the declared symbol of the radical opposition in Germany? What remains of his legacy?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-05-23
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Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben
Overview: Vera Tschechowa, actress and filmmaker and a close friend of Michael Ballhaus. One of Germany's stars of cinematography, embarks on the journey through my life. The film begins in the US and Hollywood - where Ballhaus established his international fame,
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-12-16
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The Cinema and its Double: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Despair' Revisited
Overview: This absolutely top-notch documentary by Robert Fischer is a fascinating look back at not just the film in question, but Fassbinder's meteoric career which ended all too soon with his untimely death. Archival footage of Fassbinder is utilized (including several fascinating snippets culled from interviews he did at the disastrous Cannes premiere of Despair), as well as many others involved in the film and its release. Even if you're not a particular fan of Despair, or even in fact of Fassbinder, this is stellar documentary film making and is an intriguing look at one of the most enigmatic masters of the New German Cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Spiel der Verlierer
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-10-12
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Martin Scorsese Directs
Overview: Providing behind the scenes footage of the director on set with clips from his own films, Martin Scorsese Directs depicts to riveting effect the way Scorsese brings the written story to life on the big screen. Additional interviews with the likes of Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, Thelma Schoonmaker, the director’s own parents, and others build a perception of Scorsese that not everybody knows.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-16
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Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
Overview: A documentary about the making of director Martin Scorsese's 1993 film adaptation of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence. It features a conversation between Scorsese and the star of the film, Daniel Day Lewis, as well as rare behind-the-scenes footage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-01
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Notes on an American Film Director at Work
Overview: Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows his friend, film director Martin Scorsese, and his cast and crew, through various locations during the shooting of his film The Departed, released in 2006.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Cinematographer Style
Overview: 110 of the world's top cinematographers discuss the art of how and why films look the way they do.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-25
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