Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010) on Netflix
NR20101h 26mBiographyDocumentary
A documentary portrait of Jack Cardiff, the cinematographer who mastered Technicolor and shot films for seven decades. Cardiff and the filmmakers who knew him describe the work behind the camera.
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Jack Cardiff spent seventy years behind a camera and became a master of the Technicolor process, the format he used on Black Narcissus, the film that brought him an Academy Award. In 2001 he became the first cinematographer to receive an honorary Oscar. His own account of his working life is set beside recollections from fellow filmmakers who knew him and his films. Cardiff also describes photographing some of Hollywood's biggest stars, among them Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart and Sophia Loren. The documentary was completed about a year after his death and screened at the Cannes Film Festival in the Cannes Classics section.
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