MARC BENOLIEL

"The Shining. Perfection on the zoom, wonderful look to the film. While my least favorite of his, you can't argue with the way it was shot. Oh yeh, 1st movie to use Steadicam." The shinning wasn't the first movie which used steadicam. First movies was "Rocky" (1976) and "Bound of glory", then was "Days of heavens" (1978) and then "the shinning" in 1980. Anyway...from Halls' work i saw ROAD TO PERDTION, BUTCH CASSIDY AND SUNDANCE KID and both films blow me away just by the lightning. I didn't like very much "American beauty", specially by the directing. But his light can be soft and also violent, just when it has to be in the story.

"Cinematographer style" DVD is great! Commentarys from Willis, Stern, Storaro, Balhaus, Toll, Mullen and many others...it's just so interresting and also funny. One drawback: No extracts from movies..but it still absorbing believe me!

Definitly Gordon Willis, Kaminski, Tom Stern and of course Harris Savides.