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Thursday, August 18, 2005

1923 - 2005

One of my inspirations to become a filmmaker died today. Tonino Delli Colli was one of the world's greatest cinematographers. I remember watching The Good, The Bad & The Ugly as a young boy and being captivated by the perfectly composed images that seemed to stretch wider than the television screen itself. When I was a freshman in college, I saw The Good, The Bad & The Ugly on the "big screen" at the Heights Theatre in Minneapolis. It was at that moment that I decided to focus on cinematography. I watched as many of his films as I could, trying to focus on each shot individually. I came to the conclusion that any single frame from one of Delli Colli's films could be framed and hung in a museum. Delli Colli never won an academy award, he was never even nominated, but few other cinematographers have a complete body of work as impressing as Delli Colli's.

I recommend the following:

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (Leone 1966)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone 1968)
The Name of the Rose (Annuad 1986)
Life is Beautiful (Benigni 1997)

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posted by Nick Evert at 6:50 PM

1 Comments:

Blogger Chad Martin said...

Yeah, it doesn't get much better than that shot of Henry Fonda walking out of the desert in "Once Upon A Time In The West".

2:11 AM  

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