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

Directed by

Craig McCall

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 26m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 37 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary about the life and career of cinematographer Jack Cardiff. It features interviews with him and famous directors and actors who worked with him. The film looks back at his work and his influence on the Technicolor process.

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What happens

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff is a 2010 documentary film that explores the work of the cinematographer Jack Cardiff. It reviews his work and with the input of many of his contemporaries, examines his legacy as one of the most influential film makers in the world and details how he became master of the Technicolor process. The film includes interviews with Cardiff as well as Martin Scorsese, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Lauren Bacall, Kim Hunter, Kathleen Byron, John Mills, Alan Parker, Richard Fleischer and many others. Among many anecdotes in the film, Jack Cardiff relates what it was like to work with Hollywood's greatest icons: Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Alfred Hitchcock, Marlene Dietrich and Arnold Schwarzenegger. The film was released about a year after Jack Cardiff's death and was shown at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival on 16 May 2010, as part of the "Cannes Classics". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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