Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro

Overview

Documentary about Vittorio Storaro, cinematographer of Apocalypse Now, The Last Emperor, Reds, Il Confimista, 1900. Vittorio Storaro talks about his work, along with collaborators like Warren Beatty and Bernardo Bertolucci and peers like Nestor Almendros. On-set footage from Dick Tracy and The Sheltering Sky. Storaro explains his zany theories about light and colour, and gives a potted history of lighting in the cinema. Sublime.

Cast

Vittorio Storaro

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Bernardo Bertolucci

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Warren Beatty

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Francis Ford Coppola

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Ferdinando Scarfiotti

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