Cinematographer Style

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04/08/2014 Despite the omission of important names such as Lubezki, Richardson, Ballhaus, Menges, Rousselot, Kaminski, Delbonnel and Dod Mantle; Cinematographer Style is by far the most informative and complete documentary ever made concerning the beautiful art and craft of composition, lighting, framing and movement in motion pictures. See more 07/26/2013 Not what I expected, but it was good to listen to all these great cinematographer talk about their background and process. Would have preferred more hands on view though. See more 02/09/2013 Cinematographer Style starts of with an introduction of all the great people who participated in the project. From Remi Adefarasin to Vilmos Zsigmond, the who is who of the cinematographer world is shown in alphabetical order and everyone is allowed to say his name. Then, I waited for the film to begin, and I waited, but it never really happened. For about ninety minutes the film went on to show us short interview clips from these 100+ (!!!) masters of their art. Without ever letting one of them finish their thoughts or expand and dive into the material. It's mostly a down-edited disaster which collected short anecdotes about various cinematography-related topics and edited them together without much coherence. Even more astonishing, is the fact that the film never shows any of the film material they're talking about. I'd say that especially a film that tries to tell us what cinematography is all about should heavily rely on film examples or sequences to show the audiences what they're intending to say. Director/Cinematographer Jon Fauer, who is himself one of the interviewees, avoids that and presents us an endless number of snippets which aren't exactly what it'd talk to analyze the interesting topic in depth. Sure, it will certainly give you some new insights in the field of cinematography and certainly increased my knowledge about the subject matter but I learned considerable more about film when I actually worked on a film set (or during the four-hour car drive with the cinematographer afterwards). Cinematographer Style, just was too big in scope too succeed. I guess Fauer called all of his buddies to participate and was overwhelmed when all agreed. He did his best, but what came out at the end is nothing more than a boring mess. What could have been a fascinating examination of the craft/art is just a challenge for your attention span. See more 12/17/2011 Amazing lighting, of course, but also nice editing. Good to see the faces behind the films we all love, center stage telling their stories. Love it. See more 12/11/2011 Amazing lighting, of course, but also nice editing. Good to see the faces behind the films we all love, center stage telling their stories. Love it. See more 06/22/2011 An obnoxious, selfish film that expects its audience to bow before the greatness of cinematographers in their least unique form; themselves. Not once do we get to see the work of these artists that back their melodramatic statements. Waste of time. Cinematographers will learn nothing about cinematography and walk away less inspired having taking a lesson in absolute narcissism. See more Read all reviews

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