Tom DiCillo
Tom DiCillo (born August 14, 1953 in Camp LeJeune , North Carolina ) is an American cinematographer , film director , screenwriter and playwright .
Life
After graduating from New York University in 1979, DiCillo has been working in independent film since 1980 . DiCillo started out as a cameraman for independent filmmakers, notable for Jim Jarmusch , for whom he directed Permanent Vacation (1980), Stranger than Paradise (1984) and Coffee and Cigarettes (1986). DiCillo switched to directing and screenwriting with Johnny Suede in 1991 .
DiCillo's full-length cinema documentary about Jim Morrison and the Doors , which was released in German cinemas in 2010 under the title The Doors: When You're Strange , attracted particular attention in German-speaking countries . The film tells the story of the US rock band The Doors from its beginnings on the beach in Venice Beach in 1965 through the six studio albums to Jim Morrison's death in 1971 (voiceover: Johnny Depp ). The feature pages of the major German-language newspapers regularly rated the “sensational documentary” - also in direct comparison with other films from the same band - very positively, such as the Süddeutsche Zeitung: “When recording legendary songs, from ' Light my Fire ' to You are so close to 'People are Strange' that Oliver Stone's 1991 fictional film version, on the other hand, seems exalted, ridiculous and artificial. ”The documentary received several awards, such as the 2011 Grammy for Best Long Form Music Video .
Since 2006 he has primarily appeared as a director of television series. He directed episodes of Criminal Intent , Good Wife , Lights Out , Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , Law & Order: Los Angeles and Chicago Fire .
Filmography (selection)
camera operator
- 1980: Permanent Vacation - Director: Jim Jarmusch
- 1980: Underground USA - Director: Eric Mitchell
- 1983: Variety - Directed by Bette Gordon
- 1984: Stranger than Paradise - Director: Jim Jarmusch
- 1984: Burroughs - Director: Howard Brookner
- 1986: Coffee and Cigarettes - Director: Jim Jarmusch
- 1987 Robinson's Garden - Director: Masashi Yamamoto
- 1988: The Beat - Director: Paul Mones
- 1989: Laura Ley - Director: Jenne Sipman
- 1990: End of the Night - Directed by Keith McNally
Director
- 1991: Johnny Suede
- 1995: Living in Oblivion
- 1996: Box of Moonlight
- 1997: The Real Blonde
- 2001: Double Whammy
- 2003: Monk (TV series, 1 episode)
- 2006: Blitzlichtgewitter (Delirious)
- 2009: The Doors: When You're Strange (When You're Strange)
Screenwriter
- 1991: Johnny Suede
- 1995: Living in Oblivion
- 1996: Box of Moonlight
- 1997: The Real Blonde
- 2001: Double Whammy
- 2006: Blitzlichtgewitter (Delirious)
Web links
- Tom DiCillo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Happy Endings ( Memento from August 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) - portrait of the film-dienst , July 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Gross: “Waste your virtue. 'When you're strange' - Tom DiCillo's sensational documentary shows the Doors as critics of American reason ”, in: Die Zeit, No. 27, July 1, 2010, p. 52. online , accessed on May 16, 2013.
- ↑ Anke Sternborg: “Young God at the gas pump. A time travel trip: The film 'The Doors - When you're strange' by Tom DiCillo ”, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, No. 150, July 3, 2010, p. 13. online , accessed on May 16, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | DiCillo, Tom |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | DiCillo, Thomas A; DiCillo, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American cinematographer, film director, actor, writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Camp LeJeune, North Carolina |