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

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

Documentary
Release Date: 2010, May 5
Directors: Craig McCall
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Modus Operandi Films, UK Film Council
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Dustin Hoffman, Humphrey Bogart, Kathleen Byron, Lauren Bacall, Laurence Olivier, Tony Curtis, Kim Hunter, Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn

Overview:

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when his Technicolor camerawork was awarded for Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus. Beyond John Huston's The African Queen and King Vidor's War and Peace, the films of the British-Hungarian creative duo (The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death too) guaranteed immortality for the renowned cameraman whose career spanned seventy years.

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