Cinematography by director
Posted: Thu May 14, 2020 10:31 am
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Films etc on which the director served as their own director of photography.
Soderbergh is probably the most well-known and prolific (23 films and counting). He is also just about alone in doing so among directors of big-budget action movies. Robert Rodriguez is back at it again. I doubt the underrated Peter Hyams has another one in him (you may interpret that as a challenge, Mr. Hyams).
There is that most independent of filmmakers, Jon Jost, who's been doing it all himself for fifty years and whose films look and play like no one else's.
Chantal Akerman. Still hurts.
I didn't know Doug Liman used to do it sometimes. Go holds up. Almost certainly the only '90s Tarantino rip I can say that for. He hasn't made anything nearly as enjoyable since. Maybe the first half of Edge of Tomorrow.
Vincent Gallo and Shane Carruth are the only ones who also write, edit, star in, and compose the music for their own movies. Carruth has been unable to get another film made and has seen fall apart two different projects he'd devoted years to (this one also hurts). Gallo's inactivity is self-imposed and since The Brown Bunny has opted not to distribute at least one and likely two or more of his own films, in part due to understandable antipathy towards the idiocy of the press in general and film media in particular. I don't know where I'm going. I guess: it's hard to find real vision in the American cinema these days, for many sad reasons.
(Not that more hats necessarily means greater vision, of course.)
Well, there is also Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead: the former writes (most), the latter shoots, and they both act/edit/direct. No acting in the yet-to-be released Synchronic, I understand. But the cast list includes such promising B&M creations as "Church Cult Member", "Conquistador", "Skeleton Man", and "Tom".
Many definitely missing. Omissions much appreciated!
Films etc on which the director served as their own director of photography.
Soderbergh is probably the most well-known and prolific (23 films and counting). He is also just about alone in doing so among directors of big-budget action movies. Robert Rodriguez is back at it again. I doubt the underrated Peter Hyams has another one in him (you may interpret that as a challenge, Mr. Hyams).
There is that most independent of filmmakers, Jon Jost, who's been doing it all himself for fifty years and whose films look and play like no one else's.
Chantal Akerman. Still hurts.
I didn't know Doug Liman used to do it sometimes. Go holds up. Almost certainly the only '90s Tarantino rip I can say that for. He hasn't made anything nearly as enjoyable since. Maybe the first half of Edge of Tomorrow.
Vincent Gallo and Shane Carruth are the only ones who also write, edit, star in, and compose the music for their own movies. Carruth has been unable to get another film made and has seen fall apart two different projects he'd devoted years to (this one also hurts). Gallo's inactivity is self-imposed and since The Brown Bunny has opted not to distribute at least one and likely two or more of his own films, in part due to understandable antipathy towards the idiocy of the press in general and film media in particular. I don't know where I'm going. I guess: it's hard to find real vision in the American cinema these days, for many sad reasons.
(Not that more hats necessarily means greater vision, of course.)
Well, there is also Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead: the former writes (most), the latter shoots, and they both act/edit/direct. No acting in the yet-to-be released Synchronic, I understand. But the cast list includes such promising B&M creations as "Church Cult Member", "Conquistador", "Skeleton Man", and "Tom".
Many definitely missing. Omissions much appreciated!