Favorite cinematographers

[Punch]

Top 50 Cinematographers

No order...mind you i hate some of these films but may like the way its lit/framed & appreciate their process

Agnès Godard (Beau Travail, 35 rhums, Friday Night, J'ai pas sommeil)
Alex Nepomniaschy (Safe)
Nelson Yu Lik-wai (Platform, A Touch of Sin)
Ernest R. Dickerson (Do the Right Thing)
Adam Arkapaw (Top of the Lake, True Detective)
Maya Deren (Meditation on Violence, The Very Eye of Night)
Mark Irwin (Videodrome)
Arthur Jafa (Daughters of the Dust, Crooklyn)
Asakazu Nakai (Seven Samurai, Ran)
Robby Müller (Mystery Train, Down by Law, Repo Man)
Natasha Braier (The Rover)
Malik Hassan Sayeed (Wildcat, Clockers)
Stéphane Fontaine (Un prophète, The Beat That My Heart Skipped)
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom (Syndromes and a Century, Blissfully Yours)
Hoyte Van Hoytema (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Her)
Mihai Malaimare Jr. (The Master, Tetro)
Jacques Besse (The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun)
Alwin H. Küchler (Morvern Callar, Ratcatcher)
Huai-en Chen (A City of Sadness)
Sven Nykvist (Cries & Whispers, Offret, Persona)
Mitsuji Kanau (Black Sun)
Gordon Willis (The Parallax View, Klute, Godfather I/II)
Robbie Ryan (Wuthering Heights, Fish Tank)
Christopher Doyle (The Limits of Control, Days of Being Wild)
Robert Elswit (There Will Be Blood)
Bradford Young (Mother of George, Ain't Them Bodies Saints)
Alexander Hammid (Meshes of the Afternoon, At Land)
Jordan Cronenweth (Blade Runner)
Otello Martelli (La Dolce Vita, La Strada)
Nicolas Karakatsanis (Bullhead)
Roger Deakins (The Man Who Wasn't There, Jesse James)
Michael Chapman (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull)
James Wong Howe (Seconds, Sweet Smell of Success)
Yorick Le Saux (Only Lovers Left Alive, Carlos)
Ping Bin Lee (Café Lumière, Norwegian Wood)
Tak Fujimoto (Devil in a Blue Dress, Badlands)
Georges Bracher (Touki Bouki)
Marc-André Batigne (The Time that Remains)
Georgi Rerberg (The Mirror)
Sergey Urusevskiy (Soy Cuba)
Alexis Zabe (Post Tenebras Lux)
Kazuo Miyagawa (Yojimbo, Ugetsu)
Ron Fricke (Baraka, Samsara)
Vittorio Storaro (The Conformist, Apocalypse Now, Novecento)
Greig Fraser (Killing Them Softly)
Emmanuel Lubezki (The Tree of Life)
Gianni Di Venanzo (8½, La Notte, The 10th Victim)
Owen Roizman (Network, Straight Time)
Chan Chang (The Terrorizers)
Yoshio Mamiya (The Warped Ones, Thirst for Love)


i like slow film stock & the anamorphic format a lot of these plp use one or the other

EDIT: not favs but too important not to mention > (subrata mitra, jack cardiffs)

[Punch]

Top 50 Cinematographers

No order...mind you i hate some of these films but may like the way its lit/framed & appreciate their process

Agnès Godard (Beau Travail, 35 rhums, Friday Night, J'ai pas sommeil)
Alex Nepomniaschy (Safe)
Nelson Yu Lik-wai (Platform, A Touch of Sin)
Ernest R. Dickerson (Do the Right Thing)
Adam Arkapaw (Top of the Lake, True Detective)
Maya Deren (Meditation on Violence, The Very Eye of Night)
Mark Irwin (Videodrome)
Arthur Jafa (Daughters of the Dust, Crooklyn)
Asakazu Nakai (Seven Samurai, Ran)
Robby Müller (Mystery Train, Down by Law, Repo Man)
Natasha Braier (The Rover)
Malik Hassan Sayeed (Wildcat, Clockers)
Stéphane Fontaine (Un prophète, The Beat That My Heart Skipped)
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom (Syndromes and a Century, Blissfully Yours)
Hoyte Van Hoytema (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Her)
Mihai Malaimare Jr. (The Master, Tetro)
Jacques Besse (The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun)
Alwin H. Küchler (Morvern Callar, Ratcatcher)
Huai-en Chen (A City of Sadness)
Sven Nykvist (Cries & Whispers, Offret, Persona)
Mitsuji Kanau (Black Sun)
Gordon Willis (The Parallax View, Klute, Godfather I/II)
Robbie Ryan (Wuthering Heights, Fish Tank)
Christopher Doyle (The Limits of Control, Days of Being Wild)
Robert Elswit (There Will Be Blood)
Bradford Young (Mother of George, Ain't Them Bodies Saints)
Alexander Hammid (Meshes of the Afternoon, At Land)
Jordan Cronenweth (Blade Runner)
Otello Martelli (La Dolce Vita, La Strada)
Nicolas Karakatsanis (Bullhead)
Roger Deakins (The Man Who Wasn't There, Jesse James)
Michael Chapman (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull)
James Wong Howe (Seconds, Sweet Smell of Success)
Yorick Le Saux (Only Lovers Left Alive, Carlos)
Ping Bin Lee (Café Lumière, Norwegian Wood)
Tak Fujimoto (Devil in a Blue Dress, Badlands)
Georges Bracher (Touki Bouki)
Marc-André Batigne (The Time that Remains)
Georgi Rerberg (The Mirror)
Sergey Urusevskiy (Soy Cuba)
Alexis Zabe (Post Tenebras Lux)
Kazuo Miyagawa (Yojimbo, Ugetsu)
Ron Fricke (Baraka, Samsara)
Vittorio Storaro (The Conformist, Apocalypse Now, Novecento)
Greig Fraser (Killing Them Softly)
Emmanuel Lubezki (The Tree of Life)
Gianni Di Venanzo (8½, La Notte, The 10th Victim)
Owen Roizman (Network, Straight Time)
Chan Chang (The Terrorizers)
Yoshio Mamiya (The Warped Ones, Thirst for Love)


i like slow film stock & the anamorphic format a lot of these plp use one or the other

EDIT: not favs but too important not to mention > (subrata mitra, jack cardiffs)

adding Emmanuel Machuel to this. i just watched "Casa de Lava" & im blown away by the cinematography i recommend checking it out just for that. and i still would like to see anyone else's list

[jenkins]

you're a step ahead and that's all there is to it

my favorite cinematographer is punch and here are screencaps from his tumblr, which i found in a "natural" way on google while looking for screencaps to some movie i forget which one ok here's the link then the pictures, which pictures are my favorites from looking through the tumblr and not selecting ones i've previously chatted about in shoutbox, i won't be naming the movies because your emotions can do the naming or you can visit the tumblr, get it, got it, go:
http://abderrahmane-sissako.tumblr.com

[03]

"the hole" is fantastic cinematography;