Owen Roizman has died

[dan kessler]

Did anyone else on the forum notice or mention this?  He died Jan. 6

[Jeff Bernstein]

Owen Roizman has left behind him a remarkable Hollywood career. To his body of work there are too many titles of significance and too many filmmakers of significance to list here. William Friedkin was the first, but just one, crucial collaborator in his history. Owen Roizman lived through and contributed to a massively significant Hollywood timeline (the 1970s). The French Connection (1971) was one of the first, if not the first, big-studio Hollywood movie with a full-on simulated documentary technique (a huge gamble which paid off; audiences responded huge). The Exorcist (1973) for a short time became the highest-grossing film of all time (or close enough) (but unseated soon after!). His storybook career was book-ended by highly intelligent directors : Friedkin and Lawrence Kasdan. Network (1976) was a colossally highly regarded film of its day. His Taps (1981) featured a very young Tom Cruise in his breakout role (as the EWS acolyte, I would say that). He shot the great film stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Tootsie (1982) was an extremely high-profile film of its year (in a year of E.T. and Gandhi!). His last film French Kiss looks absolutely ravishing; it's Hollywood-studio cinema at its finest, in all phases of production : a beautiful swansong. It's staggering the important names and titles I must leave out here! When a man dies, so much dies with him. Not just his own memories,  but a whole world's.

[Mark Kenfield]

One of the absolute trailblazers of contemporary cinematography.

The world just got a stop darker.

RIP.

[David Mullen ASC]

One of the last giants of 70's cinematography; now there is just Storaro, a few others.

[Stewart McLain]

Surprised and disappointed that this didn't make it into any of news outlets I regularly read.  In addition to the other great movies already mentioned, Three Days of the Condor is terrific and one of my favorite looking movies.