THE RED SHOES
Why do you want to dance?” the man asks the girl. The girl pauses and answers his question with a question, “Why do you want to live?” “I don’t know exactly why,” the man responds with a smile. “But I … Continue reading THE RED SHOES
Tag: Jack Cardiff
10 from Cardiff
Cinematographer Jack Cardiff was born for Technicolor. One of the company’s first technicians, Cardiff mastered the three-strip process in the late-1930s with industrial and instructional films before getting a chance to work as a 2nd unit cameraman on Michael Powell … Continue reading 10 from Cardiff
Born On This Day — September 18, 1914
The films that I am most proud of—the film, for instance, that I made under great difficulty, Sons and Lovers (1960), I wanted to make it into a good film because the book is marvelous, and I didn’t want to … Continue reading Born On This Day — September 18, 1914
Born On This Day — September 18
Most directors who have been around for a while, acquire a gaunt, soul-scarred look associated with fighter pilots who have survived a war. —Jack Cardiff Continue reading Born On This Day — September 18
The Archers
The study of cinema is the study of directors, or more accurately, the study of auteurs. Single visions brought to life via a committee. Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, John Ford, all of these names immediately pop into our minds when we think of … Continue reading The Archers
In Their Words — Saturday, January 26, 2013
Our business was not realism but surrealism. We were storytellers, fantasists. This is why we could never get on with the documentary film movement. Documentary films started with poetry and finished as prose. We storytellers started with naturalism and finished … Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, January 26, 2013
Michael J. Cinema 