#vilmos zsigmond

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The Long Goodbye (1973)

A deeply cynical neo-noir shot on the less-documented streets of 1970s Los Angeles.

Director: Robert Altman

Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond

Starring: Elliott Gould, Sterling Hayden, Nina Van Pallandt, Jim Bouton, Mark Rydell, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Images (Robert Altman, 1972)

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Vilmos Zsigmond, June 16, 1930 – January 1, 2016.

Photo by Peter Sorel.

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reflections in the long goodbye (1973)

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Deliverance (John Boorman, 1972).

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The Hired Hand (1971)

Directed by Peter Fonda

Cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond

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The Long Goodbye, Robert Altman (1973)

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Pat Rambaut

Fat man and little boy, dir. Roland Joffé, 1989.

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Heaven’s Gate (1980)

Directed by Michael Cimino

Cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond

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Heaven's Gate (Director's Cut), 1980

An infamously troubled production, butchered by the studio (and subsequently panned on release), this stunning, demythologizing masterpiece about American Western expansion is one of the last vestiges of the auteur-driven filmmaking of the 1970s, posthumously restored to greatness and reevaluated as a lost triumph of American filmmaking.

Director: Michael Cimino

Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond

Production Designer: Tambi Larsen

Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Isabelle Huppert, Jeff Bridges, Joseph Cotten, Mickey Rourke, and Tom Noonan.

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All-Time Favorite Trailers: 'Blow Out'

I first remember watching the trailer for Brian De Palma’s “Blow Out” years ago before a double feature at New Beverly Cinema. While I don’t remember which double feature I was seeing that evening, I do remember the trailer itself and in becoming excited about checking out this underappreciated De Palma classic. Roger Ebert gave it four out of four stars and proclaimed it to be one of those…

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Robert Altman, February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006.

Shooting The Long Goodbye (1973).

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“MOYERS: So if my private dreams are in accord with the public mythology, I'm more likely to live healthily in that society. But if my private dreams are out of step with the public – CAMPBELL: -- you'll be in trouble. If you're forced to live in that system, you'll be a neurotic. MOYERS: But aren't many visionaries and even leaders and heroes close to the edge of neuroticism? CAMPBELL: Yes, they are. MOYERS: How do you explain that? CAMPBELL: They've moved out of the society that would have protected them, and into the dark forest, into the world of fire, of original experience. Original experience has not been interpreted for you, and so you've got to work out your life for yourself. Either you can take it or you can't. You don't have to go far off the interpreted path to find yourself in very difficult situations. The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience -- that is the hero's deed.” ― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

“You learn to be an artist.” ~*Vilmos Zsigmond

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50 Years Ago

Steven Spielberg's first theatrical film...

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977).