The Man Who Shot Chinatown

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Movie
German title The Man Who Shot Chinatown - The cameraman John A. Alonzo
Original title The Man Who Shot Chinatown - The Life & Work of John A. Alonzo
Country of production Germany , United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length 77 minutes
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Director Axel Schill
script Stephanie Bahr , Axel Schill
production Montagnola Productions Ltd. : Stephanie Bahr , Steve Milne
music Gerd 'Ide' Loedige
camera Volker Gläser , additional camera May Rigler & Carl Rajatski
cut Peter Wiggins

The Man Who Shot Chinatown - The Life & Work of John A. Alonzo (German title: The Man Who Shot Chinatown - Der Kameramann John A. Alonzo ) is a biographical documentary by the director Axel Schill from 2007 about the American cinematographer John A. Alonzo (1934-2001). Alonzo, who was the first American of Mexican descent to join the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) in the mid-1960s , is considered to be one of the pioneers in high definition cinematography.

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The documentary traces the life of the cameraman, that of one of the relevant Cinematographers New Hollywood applies and with film classics like Harold and Maude , Vanishing Point (Engl. Vanishing Point ), Chinatown , Scarface and many others his extraordinary artistic diversity to the test has asked. The documentary shows his beginnings in Dallas, Texas, where he had to deal with the first racial discrimination. In interviews with colleagues and companions, Alonzo's rise after high school from cleaning worker at a television station to actor and cameraman ( Director of Photography ) is comprehensible. There are numerous interviews with actors such as Richard Dreyfuss and Sally Field .

Fascinated by working with the camera, Alonzo developed a fast and effective way of working in the emerging world of documentation in the 1960s, which made him one of the best "hand-held" cameramen. The critic Roger Ebert as well as the camera colleague Haskell Wexler have their say . The conversation with his friend Frank Sinatra Jr. also reflects Alonzo's private life, the separation from his first wife and the breakup with his three daughters.

In conversation with directors Mike Figgis , John McNaughton , William Friedkin and Michael Crichton , we also talk about the first high-definition television film in American television history, "World War II - When Lions Roared".

Reviews

Individual proof / photo proof

Charisma

Film festivals

  • Los Angeles Film Festival 2007 (World Premiere) (USA)
  • Munich Film Festival 2007 (German premiere) (Germany)
  • Cambridge Film Festival 2007 (Great Britain)
  • Tacoma, Seattle 2007 (USA)
  • PlusCamerImage 2007, Lodz (Poland)
  • Festival Del Cine, Guadalajara, 2008 (Mexico)
  • Bradford Film Festival, 2008 (UK)
  • Vistas Latino Film Festival, Dallas 2009 (USA)
  • EBS International Documentary Festival, Seoul 2010 (South Korea)

Theatrical release

  • Germany
  • Switzerland
  • USA (isolated)

Television broadcasts

In Germany, Hungary, Greece, Finland, South Korea, Canada (British Columbia), South America (HBO Latin) and Brazil.

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