'CAMERAMAN: The Life & Work of Jack Cardiff' - trailer

Feature Documentary - 86 minutes.

SYNOPSIS

A film celebrating the remarkable career of legendary cinematographer, Jack Cardiff, who provided the stunning cinematography on such classics like The Red Shoes and The African Queen.

Jack’s career spanned an incredible nine of moving picture’s first ten decades and his work behind the camera altered the look of films forever through his use of Technicolor photography. Featuring over twenty original interviews with the world’s greatest actors, directors and technicians, Cameraman explores Jack’s life and work in compelling detail, scope and intimacy. The film is not only a unique and valuable testimony to British and international cinema history; it’s a humorous and informative one too — an amazing story about an exceptional life.

PRESS

“FANTASTICAL IS WHAT WE GET...BEAUTIFUL”
Time Out New York ★★★★

“CAPTIVATING, ENLIGHTENING AND THOROUGHLY ABSORBING” 
The Washington Post  3/4

“GLORIOUSLY VIVID… RICH”
Los Angeles Times ★★★★

 “A MUST FOR FILM BUFFS”
New York Magazine 

 “ONE OF THE BEST FILMMAKING DOCUMENTARIES EVER MADE.”
Film Journal International

 “IT’S NOT OFTEN IN THESE DAYS OF CINEMATIC SPRAWL AND GIRTH THAT YOU WISH A FILM COULD BE LONGER. IF ONLY CRAIG MCCALL’S CAMERAMAN: THE LIFE AND WORK OF JACK CARDIFF COULD BE A 10- OR 20- PART SERIES.”
The Telegraph  ★★★★★

 “CHOSEN FOR A SPECIAL SCREENING AT CANNES LATER THIS MONTH, CAMERAMAN IS BURSTING WITH MOUTHWATERING CLIPS AND FASCINATING INSIGHTS INTO THE CINEMATOGRAPHER’S ART. ESSENTIAL VIEWING FOR CINEMA LOVERS”
Daily Express ★★★★

 “THIS FASCINATING DOCUMENTARY GIVES AN OVERVIEW OF THE TALENT OF THE MAN WHO SHOT A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, THE RED SHOES, THE AFRICAN QUEEN AND WAR AND PEACE.... A MUST FOR CINEPHILES AND FILM HISTORY BUFFS.”
The London Times ★★★★

"PORTRAIT OF A MODEST MAN WHO ONCE SAID THE FILM WORLD WAS “FULL OF HYPOCRISY, HYPERBOLE AND EVERYTHING ELSE YOU CAN THINK OF”. THIS DOCUMENTARY COULD HAVE BEEN TWICE AS LONG AND RETAINED OUR INTEREST."
London Evening Standard ★★★★

 “FALL IN LOVE WITH CINEMA AFRESH WITH THIS CHATTY DOC ABOUT ROGUISH BRITISH MULTI-OSCAR-WINNER (THE RED SHOES, THE AFRICAN QUEEN) WHO DIED LAST YEAR”
London Metro

"THE AFFECTIONATE AND FASCINATING DOCUMENTARY IS SO ENGAGING AND WATCHABLE THAT ITS MODEST RUNNING TIME ACTUALLY LEAVES YOU WANTING MORE. SHOULD PROVE A POPULAR DRAW FOR FILM FANS AND PROGRAMMERS ALIKE."
Screen Daily

"DESERVES MORE THAN MOST FILM-THEMED DOCUS TO BE SEEN ON THE BIG SCREEN." 
Variety

CAST & CREW

Cast

JACK CARDIFF

MARTIN SCORSESE

KIRK DOUGLAS

LAUREN BACALL

CHARLTON HESTON

KIM HUNTER

JOHN MILLS

ALAN PARKER

THELMA SCHOONMAKER

FREDDIE FRANCIS

RAFFAELLA DE LAURENTIIS

RICHARD FLEISCHER

PETER YATES

KATHLEEN BYRON

CHRISTOPHER CHALLIS

KEVIN McCLORY

IAN CHRISTIE

MOIRA SHEARER

MICHEL CIMENT

PETER HANDFORD

GEORGE E TURNER

MICHAEL POWELL

   

   

Directed and produced by

CRAIG McCALL

    

   

Producer

RICHARD McGILL

   

  

Executive Producers

MASON CARDIFF

LENNY CROOKS

CHRIS ROFF

JULIE WILLIAMS

   

   

Associate Producers

SEAN BROUGHTON

HELEN IRESON

STEVE PARISH

PENNY VERBE

MARK WILDIG

   

   

Editor

DAN ROBERTS

   

   

Cinematographers

STEVEN CHIVERS

RICARDO COLL

SIMON FANTHORPE

NICHOLAS HOFFMAN

JONATHAN RHO

IAN SALVAGE

JAMES WELLAND

BOB WILLIAMS

   

   

Composer

MARK SAYER-WADE

   

   

Associate Editor

CHRIS DICKENS

    

   

Line Producer

MARTIN DOREY

  

  

Art Director

MILES GLYN

  

  

Special Thanks to:

FIONA MAXWELL at ITV STUDIOS GLOBAL

ENTERTAINMENT

STUDIO CANAL

JONATHAN WOOLF & BERNADETTE CURLEY

At ROMULUS FILMS

MAGGIE ELLIS at Film London

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