Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

A movie poster dominated by a picture of Audrey Hepburn and a cameraman and his camera in the right hand bottom corner pointing up at her.

Promotional poster for the film
Directed by Craig McCall
Produced by Richard McGill
Craig McCall
Cinematography Steven Chivers
Ricardo Coll
Simon Fanthorpe
Nicholas Hoffman
Jonathan Rho
Ian Salvage
John Walker
James Welland
Bob Williams.
Edited by Dan Roberts
Chris Dickens
Production
company
Modus Operandi Films
Distributed by Optimum Releasing
The Wild Bunch
Strand Releasing
Release dates
  • 5 May 2010
Running time
 86 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

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 of his generation and details how he became master of the Technicolor process.[1] 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".[2]

Interviews with contributors

References

  1. ↑ Obituary: Jack Cardiff, Daily Telegraph, 24 April 2009
  2. ↑ Festival de Cannes: "Documentary" Sunday at Cannes Classics, 16 May 2010 Retrieved 2011-10-07

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