The summer issue of Cahiers du Cinema (#702, July-August 2014) has a special section on directors of photography, including interviews with Vilmos Zsigmond [who photographed about 100 films so far, among them Close Encounters of the 3d Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977), and has had a long association with Brian de Palma], Larry Smith (who photographed, among others, Stanley Kubrick´s Eyes Wide Shut, 1999) and an obituary of the great and recently departed Gordon Willis, a seminal cinematographer of the 1970/80s, who photographed the full Godfather saga (Francis Ford Copolla, 1972-1997) as well of most of the best of Woody Allen.
A timely idea, as the contribution of cinematographers to film is often unjustly relegated to second plan, film appreciation and understanding being consequently much impoverished. The MacMahonian would here submit its share of mea culpa, were it not for the fact that, at merely a month and a half of existence and with a confirmed following of about 3, we´re still too young and obscure to assume the least responsibility for this state of affairs.
Quite to the contrary, The MacMahonian hereby seizes the opportunity to redress any shortcomings in this regard and invites its readership to peruse the last issue of Cahiers du Cinema. A shadow of its former self the magazine may be, and I read mostly because old habits die hard, but when not adoringly republishing for the umpteenth time the adolescent diaries of André Bazin or whatever, Cahiers du Cinema still occasionally offers some of the most provocative writing on film in the French language. Yes, it´s in French. If you don´t read French, go learn. You´ll see things in a different light and anyway, otherwise you´ll never become a certified macmahonian: http://www.cahiersducinema.com/
A timely idea, as the contribution of cinematographers to film is often unjustly relegated to second plan, film appreciation and understanding being consequently much impoverished. The MacMahonian would here submit its share of mea culpa, were it not for the fact that, at merely a month and a half of existence and with a confirmed following of about 3, we´re still too young and obscure to assume the least responsibility for this state of affairs.
Quite to the contrary, The MacMahonian hereby seizes the opportunity to redress any shortcomings in this regard and invites its readership to peruse the last issue of Cahiers du Cinema. A shadow of its former self the magazine may be, and I read mostly because old habits die hard, but when not adoringly republishing for the umpteenth time the adolescent diaries of André Bazin or whatever, Cahiers du Cinema still occasionally offers some of the most provocative writing on film in the French language. Yes, it´s in French. If you don´t read French, go learn. You´ll see things in a different light and anyway, otherwise you´ll never become a certified macmahonian: http://www.cahiersducinema.com/