Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

2010·86'

Craig McCall

Documentary

★ 6.6

Letterboxd TMDB #76142

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.

Cast

Jack Cardiff Self

Martin Scorsese Self – Interviewee

Kirk Douglas Self – Interviewee

Lauren Bacall Self – Interviewee

Charlton Heston Self – Interviewee

Kim Hunter Self – Interviewee

John Mills Self – Interviewee

Alan Parker Self – Interviewee

Thelma Schoonmaker Self – Interviewee

Freddie Francis Self – Interviewee

Raffaella De Laurentiis Self – Interviewee

Richard Fleischer Self – Interviewee