Which directors come to mind as for having exceptionally good camerawork in their films?
Here's a few that come to mind for me:
Steven Spielberg
David Fincher
Alfonso Cuaron
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Brian De Palma
Who would you add to the list?
Discuss...
Michael Bay
shareI know that's meant to be a joke but he really can work a camera and make some popping shots.
Bad Boys 2 has some crazy shots in it.
The stuff he works on isn't really my cup of tea outside of the Bad Boys movies but if we are looking for camera work specifically, as per the OP's query, then he has done some work as a camera operator in movies he's been the director of which he didn't need to.
Mario Bava (not always but to be fair he made a shit load of films. This is kind of a retro vote, he was ahead of his time.)
Kaneto Shind么 (only seen a few films but they stand out)
K么ji Wakamatsu (Definitely 100% should go on the list)
Kim Jee-woon. (some really nice work & varied... really stylish shit.)
Michael Mann
shareYou just love Manhunter too much Dazed!
It is true though, some lovely work done there with the camera (And glass and mirrors).
One can never like Manhunter too much!
I particularly like the scene with Graham interviewing Lecktor and it's framed so that it looks like Will is the one behind bars.
Of course Sir Ridley ought to be included in this list too.
It is indeed a very well shot movie Dazed.
I don't think I'd include Ridley Scott in the best eye for camera work groupings though.
He is excellent (Usually) but his use of camera is fairly pedestrian to my mind (Black Hawk Down and the miniature work within Blade Runner which he didn't personally oversee withstanding).
I feel if you are going to award merit to the camera work you should look at exactly that.
Edgar Wright would get my vote for framing, but I doubt I'd enter him into camera work.
Well I'm not going into it that deeply, because I don't have the movie knowledge.
However...I'm going to disagree about Ridley,not just because of Prometheus.Although there was some gorgeous stuff in there,but for me Hannibal was amazing.
I like your list and would add Terry Gilliam and Darren Aronofsly
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shareI think they're the best.
Charlie Chaplin
Ingmar Bergman
Stanley Kubrick
Alfred Hitchcock
Roman Polanski
Steven Spielberg
Park Chan-wook
Yimou Zhang
Hayao Miyazaki
Franco Zeffirelli
Sergio Leone
Pedro Almod贸var