Host Paul Booth reviews Oscar-Nominee Daniel Raim’s new Film Image Makers.
Daniel’s films get to the very heart of why we love Cinema. He presents a perfect balance of what we know, want to know and need to know. He writes, Directs and edits in this incindiary-Documentary. It has informative interviews with Oscar-Nominees John Bailey A.S.C. (Ordinary People), Rachel Morrison A.S.C. (Mudbound) and others.
Featured cinematographers and selected filmography Billy Bitzer (April 21, 1872 – April 29, 1944) A Corner in Wheat (1909), The Birth of a Nation (1915), Intolerance (1916)
Roland Totheroh, ASC (November 29, 1890 – June 18, 1967) The Rink (1916), The Kid (1921), The Gold Rush (1925), The Circus (1928), City Lights (1931), Modern Times (1936), The Great Dictator (1940), Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Charles Rosher, ASC (November 17, 1885 – January 15, 1974) Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921), Little Annie Rooney (1925), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), What Price Hollywood? (1932)
William H. Daniels, ASC (December 1, 1901 – June 14, 1970) Foolish Wives (1922), Greed (1924) Grand Hotel (1931), Ninotchka (1939), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), The Naked City (1949), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Valley of the Dolls (1967)
Karl Struss, ASC (November 30, 1886 – December 15, 1981) Ben-Hur (1925), Sunrise, Abraham Lincoln (1930), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), The Great Dictator (1940), Limelight (1952), The Fly (1958)
James Wong Howe, ASC (August 28, 1899 – July 12, 1976) Peter Pan (1924) The Thin Man (1934), Kings Row (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), Hud (1963)
Gregg Toland, ASC (May 29, 1904 – September 28, 1948): Wuthering Heights (1939), Intermezzo (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Citizen Kane (1941), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)