Director worked on more than 80 pictures in prolific career.
Swiss-born cinematographer Carlo Varini, best known for The Chorus, The Big Blue and Subway, has died in a house fire.
The 67-year-old cinematographer, who shot more than 80 pictures throughout his career, started out as a calibrator at the Schwarz-Film laboratory in Berne.
After cinema studies at the Zurich University of Arts he became a news cameraman, moving into fiction as the assistant cameraman of celebrated Italian cinematographer Renato Berta.
He branched out on his own in the early 1980s to work with Luc Besson on his early features The Last Combat, Subway and The Big Blue. He was nominated for a Cesar for the latter two.
More recently, he gained recognition for his work on Christophe Barratier’s The Choir for which he was nominated for Camerimage’s Golden Frog alongside Dominique Gentil.
He was due to work on Canadian director Francesco Lucente’s upcoming feature Starbright.
According...
Swiss-born cinematographer Carlo Varini, best known for The Chorus, The Big Blue and Subway, has died in a house fire.
The 67-year-old cinematographer, who shot more than 80 pictures throughout his career, started out as a calibrator at the Schwarz-Film laboratory in Berne.
After cinema studies at the Zurich University of Arts he became a news cameraman, moving into fiction as the assistant cameraman of celebrated Italian cinematographer Renato Berta.
He branched out on his own in the early 1980s to work with Luc Besson on his early features The Last Combat, Subway and The Big Blue. He was nominated for a Cesar for the latter two.
More recently, he gained recognition for his work on Christophe Barratier’s The Choir for which he was nominated for Camerimage’s Golden Frog alongside Dominique Gentil.
He was due to work on Canadian director Francesco Lucente’s upcoming feature Starbright.
According...
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- ScreenDaily
Sleepwalking Land (Terra Sonâmbula) is a vividly real film that tells a somewhat surreal story about life in Mozambique. The film is directed by Portuguese filmmaker Teresa Prata, based on the increasingly popular and well-respected 1992 novel of the same name by author Mia Couto. This is a movie deserving of a larger audience than it has currently been receiving, screened primarily at international film festivals.
Prata spent seven years making Sleepwalking Land, a feat that demands acknowledgment. The story is that of a young African boy named Muidinga, a name given to him by an elderly man named Tuihir (Aladino Jasse) who claims to have rescued Muindinga from his village before the armed bandits that plague the rural African landscape could capture or kill him. Muidinga (Nick Lauro Teresa) suffers memory loss as a result of eating spoiled yam root, so he’s naturally curious about his past.
As Muidinga and Uncle Tuihir,...
Prata spent seven years making Sleepwalking Land, a feat that demands acknowledgment. The story is that of a young African boy named Muidinga, a name given to him by an elderly man named Tuihir (Aladino Jasse) who claims to have rescued Muindinga from his village before the armed bandits that plague the rural African landscape could capture or kill him. Muidinga (Nick Lauro Teresa) suffers memory loss as a result of eating spoiled yam root, so he’s naturally curious about his past.
As Muidinga and Uncle Tuihir,...
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- by Travis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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