Vittorio Storaro
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Biography: Vittorio Storaro, A.S.C., A.I.C. (born 24 June 1940) is an Italian cinematographer widely recognized as one of the best and most influential in Cinema history, for his work on numerous classic films including The Conformist, Apocalypse Now, and The Last Emperor. In the course of over fifty years, he has collaborated with directors such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Francis Ford Coppola, Warren Beatty, Woody Allen and Carlos Saura. He has received three Academy Awards for Best Cinematography for the films Apocalypse Now (1979), Reds (1981), and The Last Emperor (1987), and is one of three living persons who has won the award three times, the others being Robert Richardson and Emmanuel Lubezki. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vittorio Storaro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Camera
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Birthday: June 24, 1940
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Gender: Male
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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Overview: A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-27
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Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Overview: Why are we still able, today, to view images that were captured over 125 years ago? As we enter the digital age, audiovisual heritage seems to be a sure and obvious fact. However, much of cinema and our filmed history has been lost forever. Archivists, technicians and filmmakers from different parts of the world explain what audiovisual preservation is and why it is necessary. The documentary is a tribute to all these professionals and their important work.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-12
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Metti, una sera a cena con Peppino
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-01-01
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Light Keeps Me Company
Overview: Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoirs with Sven himself as narrator. A journey to the place of birth, Moheda, constitutes the hub of the film and during the journey friends and memories emerge. Written by Fredrik Klasson
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2000-08-26
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Schrader's Exorcism
Overview: A documentary chronicling director Paul Schrader's ride through hell and back while making film history with his prequel to The Exorcist. Schrader, after being fired from the production and his version of the film shelved, is brought back 2 years later to complete it on a shoestring budget. In true cinéma vérité style we watch as Schrader and editor Tim Silano work all the angles to get the film on its feet and over to Europe for the world premiere.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-23
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No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
Overview: The artistry, triumph and lifelong friendship of the great cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond. With film school equipment, they shoot the Soviet crackdown of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. As refugees they struggle in Hollywood, finally breaking into the mainstream with their pivotal contribution to the "American New Wave."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-11
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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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Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond
Overview: A very special encounter between legendary American cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond and young French director Pierre Filmon. A personal journey with the brightest shadowmaker and his friends.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-13
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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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An All Round Maid
Overview: A video derived from footage Godard kept from his 1981 visit to Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Studios at the time he was making Passion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Glorious Technicolor
Overview: The history of color photography in motion pictures, in particular the Technicolor company's work.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-07
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Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro
Overview: Documentary about Vittorio Storaro, cinematographer of Apocalypse Now, The Last Emperor, Reds, Il Confimista, 1900. Vittorio Storaro talks about his work, along with collaborators like Warren Beatty and Bernardo Bertolucci and peers like Nestor Almendros. On-set footage from Dick Tracy and The Sheltering Sky. Storaro explains his zany theories about light and colour, and gives a potted history of lighting in the cinema. Sublime.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Behind the scenes: Last Tango in Paris
Overview: A behind the scenes look at Bernardo Bertolucci’s classic film about the dark side of the sexual revolution: Last Tango in Paris, starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-12-03
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The Making of Captain EO
Overview: Documentary of the making of Michael Jackson's Captain EO film for the Disney theme parks.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-12
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Apocalypse Now
Overview: At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-19
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Giornata Nera
Overview: Interviews with Franco Nero and Vittorio Storaro about the film The Fifth Cord.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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And the Oscar Goes To...
Overview: The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-01
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Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Overview: In his early days as an actor, Marlon Brando (1924-2004) was a shy young man with theatrical ambitions, like many others; but his charisma and superb acting skills made him truly unique, so that the doors to the starry sky of Hollywood opened for him. However, his peculiar manners, political commitment and complicated love life always overshadowed his artistic success.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-09-20
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The Making of 'One from the Heart'
Overview: A short documentary on the Francis Ford Coppola musical One From the Heart.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-14
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Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema
Overview: The relations between Parma and cinema were so strong for almost the whole of the twentieth century that this city became an early laboratory of ideas and theories on cinema and a set chosen by some of the greatest Italian authors and beyond. Furthermore, a considerable number of directors, actors, screenwriters and set designers were born in Parma who have made their way internationally, testifying to the fact that in this small city in Northern Italy there was a decidedly cinematic air. Red armchairs takes up the thread of this story, wondering why, unique among the Italian provincial cities, Parma has given so much to the cinema, accompanying the viewer on a journey backwards that from the first projections of the Lumière cinema reaches the ultramodern experience of new multiplexes. During this journey we will meet the characters who created the conditions for this diffusion of cinematographic culture in Parma.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-07-24
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Abicinema
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-08-09
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Kreka: Dreamcatcher
Overview: The career of the famous production designer Miljen Kljaković – Kreka and reveals all the beauty and importance of film scenography.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2021-05-16
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Witness to 'Reds'
Overview: Cast and crew of "Reds" revisit their memories and stories while making the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-17
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