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Harvard Film Archive is doing a retrospective of the cinematographer who shot The Perfect Kiss. I didn't know this, but he also shot the original Beauty and the Beast.
http://www.harvardfilmarchive.org/calendars/01sepoct/alekan.html
DIRECTORS IN FOCUS
Henri Alekan: Master of Light and Shadow
This past summer at his home in Paris, the legendary cinematography Henri Alekan died at age 92, leaving behind one of the most distinctive bodies of work in the history of the medium. In a career that spanned some sixty-five years, Alekan photographed nearly a hundred feature films and more than fifty documentaries and dramas for television. He began work during the silent era as an assistant cameraman and operator in the French studio system and became a protégé of the innovative German cinematographer Eugene Shuftan. During the German occupation, his work shifted to shooting anti-Nazi films as part of the Resistance in the south of France, a service that earned him the Legion of Honor. The broad range of his creative work emerged in the immediate postwar years when Alekan worked on such diverse productions as Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast in France, an adaptation ofAnna Karenina in England, and William Wyler’s Roman Holiday in Hollywood. Alekan would continue an active career into his eighties and earned his greatest recognition for his work on Wim Wender’s Wings of Desire, when he was seventy-eight years old. Several lifetime achievement awards followed as the great master of light and shadow ended a singular career behind the camera.
THE PERFECT KISS (shown with another film)
October 13 (Saturday) 8:45 pm
October 14 (Sunday) 7:00 pm
Directed by Jonathan Demme
US 1985, 35mm, color, 9 min.
This music video for New Order, filmed by Alekan and directed by Jonathan Demme, is a masterpiece of understated elegance and precision that perfectly matches the group's real-time performance of the titled song.
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James Jung-Hoon Seo | jseo@media.mit.edu | http://www.media.mit.edu/~jseo
http://www.harvardfilmarchive.org/calendars/01sepoct/alekan.html
DIRECTORS IN FOCUS
Henri Alekan: Master of Light and Shadow
This past summer at his home in Paris, the legendary cinematography Henri Alekan died at age 92, leaving behind one of the most distinctive bodies of work in the history of the medium. In a career that spanned some sixty-five years, Alekan photographed nearly a hundred feature films and more than fifty documentaries and dramas for television. He began work during the silent era as an assistant cameraman and operator in the French studio system and became a protégé of the innovative German cinematographer Eugene Shuftan. During the German occupation, his work shifted to shooting anti-Nazi films as part of the Resistance in the south of France, a service that earned him the Legion of Honor. The broad range of his creative work emerged in the immediate postwar years when Alekan worked on such diverse productions as Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast in France, an adaptation ofAnna Karenina in England, and William Wyler’s Roman Holiday in Hollywood. Alekan would continue an active career into his eighties and earned his greatest recognition for his work on Wim Wender’s Wings of Desire, when he was seventy-eight years old. Several lifetime achievement awards followed as the great master of light and shadow ended a singular career behind the camera.
THE PERFECT KISS (shown with another film)
October 13 (Saturday) 8:45 pm
October 14 (Sunday) 7:00 pm
Directed by Jonathan Demme
US 1985, 35mm, color, 9 min.
This music video for New Order, filmed by Alekan and directed by Jonathan Demme, is a masterpiece of understated elegance and precision that perfectly matches the group's real-time performance of the titled song.
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James Jung-Hoon Seo | jseo@media.mit.edu | http://www.media.mit.edu/~jseo
Thanks to: James Jung-Hoon Seo
