Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010)

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• Project Phase: Completed
• Release Date: 2010-00-00 - NY and/or LA
• Distributor(s): Strand Releasing
• Film Genre(s): Documentary
• Country: United States
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Jack Cardiff was lauded by the Hollywood greats he photographed films for — John Huston, Sophia Loren, Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe — and described by Michael Powell as “A genius, a daydreamer, a baby. He should have been a painter instead of being the best colour cameraman in the world.” Yet he has remained largely unknown to the general public until now. Cameraman celebrates the life and work of this unique figure in British and international cinema, a man whose career spans an incredible nine decades of cinema history. “Legend” is a word all too frequently used in Hollywood, yet Jack Cardiff’s story surely proves him worthy of that title. In 2001, fifty-four years after first winning an Academy Award for his stunning Technicolor work on Black Narcissus, Jack Cardiff became the first cinematographer to receive an honorary, Lifetime Achievement Oscar® for: “Exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences; and for outstanding services to the Academy.” Jack began in the film industry in 1918 as a child actor aged just four, but quickly switched to the other side of the camera, graduating to cinematography and for a period direction, gaining over a hundred film credits on productions as diverse as The Red Shoes and Rambo. In the process Jack Cardiff had a profound and lasting influence on cinema and its current leading practitioners.

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