Awards
Incident in a Ghostland2019 Leo Awards: NominatedBest Cinematography in a Dramatic Feature
2009 Leo Awards: Nominated |
Coded2016 Award for Best CinematographyInternational Online Web Festival
2009 Leo Awards: Nominated |
Fave Films
This is not a ‘best of’ list — only some of my personal favourites- with special emphasis on cinematography. Below is my top eleven list, as well a few runners-up.Top Eleven
Baraka - Ron Fricke, 1992The Tenant - Roman Polanski, 1976
The Haunting - Robert Wise, 1963
Children of Men - Alfonso Cuaron, 2006
Frankenstein - James Whale, 1931
Come and See - Elim Klimov, 1985
Delicatessen - Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1991
Fight Club - David Fincher, 1999
The Rapture - Michael Tolkin, 1991
Last Tango in Paris - Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972
Singapore Sling - Nikos Nikolaidis, 1990
Faves
Intolerance - D. W. Griffith, 1916The Phantom of the Opera - Rupert Julian, 1925
Faust - F.W. Murnau, 1926
Metropolis - Fritz Lang, 1926
Sunrise - F.W. Murnau, 1927
Un Chien Andalou - Salvador Dali & Luis Buñuel, 1929
All Quiet on the Western Front - Lewis Milestone, 1930
M - Fritz Lang, 1931
Freaks - Tod Browning, 1932
The Bride of Frankenstein - James Whale, 1935
The Rules of the Game - Jean Renoir, 1939
49th Parallel - Michael Powell, 1941
Citizen Kane - Orson Welles, 1941
House of Frankenstein - Erle C. Kenton, 1944
Detour - Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945
Great Expectations - David Lean, 1946
Out of the Past - Jacques Tourneur, 1947
The Third Man - Carol Reed, 1949
Gun Crazy - Joseph H. Lewis, 1950
Forbidden Games - René Clément 1952
The Seven Samurai - Akira Kurosawa, 1954
Night of the Hunter - Charles Laughton, 1955
The Seventh Seal - Ingmar Bergman, 1956
Paths of Glory - Stanley Kubrick, 1957
Nights of Cabiria - Frederico Fellini, 1957
Kapó - Gillo Pontecorvo, 1959
The Pit and the Pendulum - Roger Corman, 1961
Ivan's Childhood - Anrei Tarkovsky, 1962
Hud - Martin Ritt, 1963
I Am Cuba - Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964
Dr. Strangelove - Stanley Kubrick, 1964
Culloden - Peter Watkins, 1964
The War Game - Peter Watkins, 1965
Repulsion - Roman Polanski, 1965
Blow Up - Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Sergio Leone, 1966
War and Peace - Sergei Bondarchuk, 1966-67
The Graduate - Mike Nichols, 1967
In Cold Blood - Richard Brooks, 1967
The Fireman’s Ball - Milos Forman, 1968
2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick, 1968
Midnight Cowboy - John Schlesinger, 1969
Kes - Ken Loach, 1969
The Battle of Britain - Guy Hamilton, 1969
Deep End - Jerzy Skomilowski, 1970
Catch 22 - Mike Nichols, 1970
Macbeth - Roman Polanski, 1971
The Devils - Ken Russell, 1971
The Conformist - Bernardo Bertolucci, 1971
Harold and Maude - Hal Ashby, 1971
Wake In Fright - Ted Kotcheff, 1971
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - Luis Bunuel, 1972
Pink Flamingos - John Waters, 1972
The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola, 1972
The Exorcist - William Freidkin, 1973
The Hourglass Sanatorium - Wojciech Has, 1973
Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam, 1974
A Woman Under the Influence - John Cassavetes, 1974
Network - Sidney Lumet, 1976
Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese, 1976
In the Realm of the Senses - Nagisa Oshima, 1976
Eraserhead - David Lynch, 1978
Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola, 1979
Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979
Scum - Alan Clarke, 1980
Raging Bull - Martin Scorsese, 1980
Breaker Morant - Bruce Beresford, 1980
The Road Warrior - George Miller, 1981
The Evil Dead - Sam Raimi, 1982
Meantime - Mike Leigh, 1983
Blood Simple - Joel Coen, 1984
A Company of Wolves - Neil Jordan, 1984
A Zed and Two Noughts - Peter Greenaway, 1985
The Sacrifice - Andrej Tarkovsky, 1986
No Surrender - Peter Smith, 1986
Down By Law - Jim Jarmusch, 1986
Gothic - Ken Russell, 1987
Decalogue - Krysztof Kieslowski, 1987
Fatal Attraction - Adrian Lyne, 1987
Tales From Gimli Hospital - Guy Maddin, 1988
Time of the Gypsies - Emir Kusturica, 1989
Last Exit To Brooklyn - Uli Edel, 1989
Miller’s Crossing - Joel Coen, 1990
Begotten - E.Elias Merhige, 1990
Europa - Lars Von Trier, 1991
Lessons In Darkness - Werner Herzog, 1992
Dead Alive (aka Braindead) - Peter Jackson, 1992
Unforgiven - Clint Eastwood, 1992
Blue - Krysztof Kieslowski, 1992
Reservoir Dogs - Quentin Tarantino, 1992
Naked - Mike Leigh, 1993
Schindler’s List - Steven Spielberg, 1993
Se7en - David Fincher, 1995
Living In Oblivion - Tom DiCillo, 1995
Hard Core Logo - Bruce McDonald, 1996
Trainspotting - Danny Boyle, 1996
Crash - David Cronenberg, 1996
Pi - Darren Aronofsky, 1998
Saving Private Ryan - Steven Spielberg, 1998
Audition - Takashi Miike, 1999
The Blair Witch Project - Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez, 1999
Titus - Julie Taymor, 1999
Sleepy Hollow - Tim Burton, 1999
American Beauty - Sam Mendes, 2000
Memento - Chris Nolan, 2000
The Filth and the Fury - Julien Temple, 2000
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner - Zacharias Kunuk, 2001
Bowling for Columbine - Michael Moore, 2002
Bloody Sunday - Paul Greengrass, 2002
The Far Side of the Moon - Robert Lepage, 2003
The Corporation - Mark Achbar & Jennifer Abbott, 2003
Father and Son - Alekandr Sokurov, 2003
Dogville - Lars Von Trier, 2003
Sideways - Alexander Payne, 2004
The Machinist - Brad Anderson, 2004
Downfall - Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2004
Crash - Paul Haggis, 2004
C.R.A.Z.Y. - Jean-Marc Vallee, 2005
United 93 - Paul Greengrass, 2006
The Pursuit of Happyness - Gabriele Muccino, 2006
The Lives of Others - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006
Shadow Company - Nick Bicanic & Jason Bourque, 2006
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Julian Schnabel, 2007
The Counterfeiters - Stefan Ruzowitzky, 2007
Fifty Dead Men Walking - Kari Skogland, 2008
The Wrestler - Darren Aronofsky, 2008
Revanche - Götz Spielmann, 2008
Moon - Duncan Jones, 2009
Avatar - James Cameron, 2009
Antichrist - Lars Von Trier, 2009
Crank: High Voltage - Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor, 2009
Enter the Void - Gaspar Noe, 2009
The Runaways - Floria Sigismondi, 2010
Rubber - Quentin Dupieux, 2010
Cold Fish - Shion Sono, 2010
Beyond the Black Rainbow - Panos Cosmatos, 2010
The Tree of Life - Terrence Malick, 2011
House of Tolerance - Bertrand Bonello, 2011
Shame - Steve McQueen, 2011
Samsara - Ron Fricke, 2011
Life of Pi - Ang Lee, 2012
The Act of Killing - Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012
Gravity - Alfonso Cuarón, 2013
The World's End - Edgar Wright, 2013
Under the Skin - Jonathan Glazer, 2013
The Great Beauty - Paolo Sorrentino, 2013
The Salt of the Earth - Wim Wenders, Juliano Salgado, 2014
Birdman - Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2014
The Babadook - Jennifer Kent, 2014
Nightcrawler - Dan Gilroy, 2014
Everest - Baltasar Kormacur, 2015
Son of Saul - Laszlo Nemes, 2015
The Witch - Robert Eggers, 2015
Land of Mine - Martin Zandvliet, 2015
Macbeth - Justin Kurzel, 2015
Wołyń - Wojciech Smarzowski, 2016
The Neon Demon - Nicolas Winding Refn, 2016
Mountain - Jennifer Peedom, 2017
November - Rainer Sarnet, 2017
Hochelaga, Land of Souls - Francois Girard, 2017
Under the Silver Lake - David Robert Mitchell, 2018
Hereditary - Ari Aster, 2018
Climax - Gaspar Noé, 2018
Mandy - Panos Cosmatos, 2018
Cold War - Pawel Pawlikowski, 2018
Hagazussa: A Heathen's Curse - Lukas Feigelfeld, 2018
For Sama - Waad Al-Khateab and Edward Watts, 2019
1917 - Sam Mendes, 2019
The Lighthouse - Robert Eggars, 2019
Swallow - Carlo Mirabella-Davis, 2019
Saint Maud - Rose Glass, 2019
The In-Laws - Kuba Michalczuk 2021
Benediction - Terence Davies, 2021
Triangle of Sadness - Ruben Östlund, 2022
Holy Spider - Ali Abbasi, 2022
Blonde - Andrew Dominik, 2022
All Quiet on the Western Front - Edward Berger, 2022
Bardo, False Chronicle... - Alejandro Iñárritu, 2022
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