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Morricone revolutionised the way music was used in westerns, creating a wild west soundscape of gunshots, eerie whistling, twanging guitars and dissonant harmonicas that matched the unsettling heat and tension of Leone's parched desert landscape, and its heroes and villains, portrayed through long shots and close-up cinematography.
The nominations for Britain's Bafta awards, announced this morning, saw British director Sam Mendes's debut film short-listed for awards in 14 categories, including best film, best director, best cinematography and best original film music.
One of the most competitive awards seasons in living memory saw the critically loved film pick up Oscar nods just for cinematography and sound mixing, hardly categories that could be exploited in marketing messaging.
I know Vinterberg was part of Dogma, with its unadorned rules of no lighting and all that, but I hardly think he's earned the right to disrespect Terry and Julie and Nic Roeg's cinematography.
With the help of Henning Kristiansen's atmospheric cinematography , in a range of muted primary colours, Axel captures the bleak Jutland peninsula of the 1870s, where live two unmarried sisters (Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel), daughters of the former pastor, and founder of an austere religious sect, who devote themselves to keeping alive his memory and his teachings in the tiny remote community.
Dick Pope was honoured at Cannes with a technical award for his cinematography for bringing the paintings to life: the film is filled with Turneresque colour: rose, amber, palest blue… "It's interesting," Leigh says, "that this is the first full-length film we have made with a digital camera.
Granted, someone's thrown enough money at the thing to give the cinematography a glossy sheen, but the concept is so ridiculously wrongheaded that you will spend much of the running time banging your skull against the nearest wall in frustration to notice.
These sequences also serve as a showcase for the film's strong cinematography , which captures the mountains, forests, and rivers around the camps as if composing an elegy.
Tonight Ida could triumph twice: its luminous black-and-white camerawork has earned it a best cinematography nomination.
Meanwhile the team behind Mr Turner – which scored no Globes nominations and a disappointing haul at the Baftas – will be cheered by its four Oscar nods, for music, production design, costume design and cinematography.
The fact that Topsy-Turvy had no nominations in the categories of acting, direction or cinematography hints at an Academy prejudice that this is Masterpiece Theater stuff, which but for a technicality would go in the foreign language section.
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