This won’t mean a lot to many people but the legendary cinematographer Jack Cardiff has died at the age of 94.
If you ever watched the images of the most famous of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s films, Black Narcissus, A Matter Of Life And Death or The Red Shoes for instance or John Huston’s The African Queen then he lit them all and in doing so created some of the most memorable images of 20th century cinema.
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The Red Shoes was one of my favourite films when I was younger - it’s beautiful
Sad that another old school cinema great has left us
Shit - this hasn’t been a good week. First Ballard. Now Cardiff.
If Vonnegut wasn’t already dead I’d say he was next.