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Feb 24, 1993 · Visions of Light: Directed by Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, Stuart Samuels. With Ernest R. Dickerson, Michael Chapman, Allen Daviau, Caleb Deschanel. Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography, illustrating their points with clips from 100 films, from The Birth of a Nation (1915) to Do the Right Thing (1989).
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Aug 6, 1993 · The only way to criticize a movie, Jean-Luc Godard famously said, is to make another movie. Certainly the best way to criticize cinematography is to show it. Here we begin with some of the earliest shots in which the artistry of motion picture photography began to pull away from the mere fact that it could record light and movement on film.
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.
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Visions of Light is a documentary that will likely cause everyone who sees it to look at movies a little differently in the future. It is a film about cinematography, consisting of a great many great shots and sequences, commented on by the men (and a few women) who photographed them. In Visions of Light, many great cinematographers talk about ...
Feb 24, 1993 · 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. Todd McCarthy. Director, Writer. Arnold Glassman.
The film equivalent of a stroll through the Louvre, the documentary Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography collects interviews with many of modern-day Hollywood's finest directors of photography and is illustrated by examples of their best work as well as scenes from the pictures which most influenced them.
Apr 23, 1993 · By. Owen Gleiberman. Published on April 23, 1993 04:00AM EDT. Don’t be scared off by the title. Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography is a kind of That’s Entertainment! of memorable film ...
