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Post by petrolino on May 6, 2017 3:36:52 GMT
Two filmmakers alone taught me the value of art as film and one of them you've already mentioned; a common factor perhaps may be the irascible and notoriously difficult cinematographer Boris Kaufman who the French rightly or wrongly proclaimed to be a photographic genius. I assume your other director is Sidney Lumet? As for Boris Kaufman, I'd be inclined to agree with the French. I don't know if you know that he was the brother of director Denis Kaufman (a.k.a. Dziga Vertov of The Man with the Movie Camera Fame), and of cinematographer Mikhail Kaufman, who remained in Russia but did not have nearly the success of Boris.Sorry, I wasn't trying to be deliberately obtuse; just sinking a few beers at the end of my working week, padre. Yes, Elia Kazan and Sidney Lumet, who both understood the limitations and possibilities of existing stagecraft. The Kaufmans - what a talented family they were! |
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