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Tak Fujimoto (born July 12, 1939 in San Diego, California), A.S.C. is a cinematographer who worked with M. Night Shyamalan. Works in Shyamalan's films [] The Sixth Sense; Signs; The Happening; Devil; Works outside of Shyamalan's films [] Ferris Bueller's Day Off; Philadelphia; The Silence of the Lambs; That Thing You Do! External links []
A graduate of the London Film School, he has worked with filmmakers Jonathan Demme, M. Night Shyamalan, John Hughes, Howard Deutch and Terrence Malick. Early in his career, he worked on the second unit of the first Star Wars film, as well as the exploitation film Switchblade Sisters .
YearTitleDirector201320102008M. Night Shyamalan2008- The Last Airbender
- Wide Awake
- After Earth
- Glass
- Praying with Anger
- Lady in The Water
- The Happening
- Old
- Knock at The Cabin
- The Visit
Okay, well, here's the one Shyamalan film you can disregard wholesale. The Last Airbender, a big-budget adaptation of the beloved cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender (blame one Mr. James Cameron for the first word's removal), is ugly, sloppy, and anonymous. It's poorly lit, choppily edited, and problematically cast. Desperate voiceover tries to smoo...
Wide Awake is kind of a pre-genre trial run for many of Shyamalan's pet themes he'd explore in later, more successful films. Hooky premises culminating in a twist; precocious, wounded children; Catholic-filtered ruminations on faith and betrayal; a chapter title that literally reads "signs" — Wide Awake, if nothing else, is proof positive that Shya...
After Earth has a contemptible 11% on Rotten Tomatoes— and I'm the only one brave enough to say "that's a little unfair!" Unfortunately, one of After Earth's largest problems is smack-dab in the center. Jaden Smith, now one of our most engaging and altruisticmusical performers, is our vehicle for the picture's dystopian action-sci-fi thrills, and h...
My expectations for Glass were sky-high. But as the film lurched on, they slowly began to shatter. It's the surprise threequel to a superhero franchise I didn't understand Shyamalan was building; the grandest and most metatextual plot twist of them all. It's the cumulative catharsis of three powerful characters played by three powerful movie stars:...
Shyamalan's first feature film, Praying With Anger, stars the man himself as Dev Raman, an Indian-American student who travels to India, learns about the oft-fraught differences between these two cultures, and tries to find a constructive place to put all of his negative, resentful emotions. In some ways it's Shyamalan's simplest and most explicitl...
Lady in the Water doesn't make a lick of sense. It's a bonkers, silly screwball comedy full of eccentric characters crossed with a deadly serious grown-up fairy tale full of earnest stares. It's full of odd mythology-building and fantastical terms to quickly learn and cram, but still stubbornly stuck in a need to feel grounded and "real." It's beyo...
Speaking of being a fan of bad cinema: Most of my favorite entries in the genre attain their campy pleasures and intrigue by an inherent tension between a filmmaker's desires and abilities. Movies like The Room become classics because the artists involved want desperately for their work to achieve greatness, but they do not possess the control to h...
Old puts an eccentric group of characters on a beach where people rapidly age, and lets 'em rip. This is in some ways a spiritual sequel to The Happening — something high-concept is "happening" to a group of eccentric characters defined in archetypes (to the point where one character meets people by asking them bluntly what their occupations are; h...
Sometimes, it's better for Shyamalan to keep things simple. In Knock at the Cabin, an adaptation of Paul G. Tremblay's novel, The Cabin at the End of the World, Shyamalan is left to one location, a cast of seven characters, and the implication that what happens in this house will alter the rest of the world. It gives Shyamalan both the massive stak...
The Visit is Shyamalan stripped to the bone, but it is still very much Shyamalan; in fact, the sparseness of the film makes the filmmaker's idiosyncracies pop even harder. Many of Shyamalan's horror works feel indebted more to the past than to their contemporaries, but in this 2015, he puts on the modern suit of "low-budget found footage," takes it...
- Gregory Lawrence
Sep 17, 2010 · A serviceable burst of high-end hokum, “Devil” classes up a flimsy, religion-themed plot (by M. Night Shyamalan) with the kind of limber cinematography only someone like Tak Fujimoto can deliver.
- John Erick Dowdle
Jul 29, 2022 · 20 years after Signs first hit the big screen, let's look at what makes this M. Night Shyamalan thriller his best movie to date.
Oct 10, 2017 · A tribute to American born cinematographer Tak Fujimoto. Known for collaborations with directors Jonathan Demme, Terrence Malick, John Hughes, M. Night Shyam...
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Jun 13, 2008 · Mr. Shyamalan’s words consistently fail him, as they have in the past. But working again with the cinematographer Tak Fujimoto (a longtime shooter for Jonathan Demme), he creates images...
