VILMOS ZSIGMOND A.S.C. • I learnt a great deal from the students and many kinds of cultures they represent. The essence of my method is to have the students themselves become aware of the professional difficulties. The participant of the Masterclass were able to independently work on the tasks at hend and see their mistakes when their film were screened. ......

That’s when the role of the Master begins. He must tell what was good and what was bad, what was lacking, and how the task could have been better solved some other way…At a Masterclass it isn’t the technique one must learn, but the way of thinking and the approach…

FILMOGRAPHY:..

Blue of the Sky
This is Larry
Pulse of Light
The Sadist Prolfile of Terror, 1963 James Landis
Living Between Two Worlds
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became, 1963
Crazy Mixed Up Zombies, 1964 with Joseph V. Mascelli
Teenage Psycho Meets Bloody Mary, 1964
What’s Up Front, 1964
The Time Travelers, 1964
The Nasty Rabbit, 1964
Spies a Go-Go, 1965
Deadwood ’76, 1965
Tales of Salesman, 1965
A Hot Summer Game, 1965
Psycho Go-Go, 1965
Rat Fink, 1965
Road to Nashville, 1966, additional photography
Mondo Mod, 1967 with laszlo kovacs
The Name of the Game is Kill, 1968
Female Trap,1968
Jennie, Wife/Child, 1968 with Robert Carl Cohen
Hot Rod Action, 1969 with Vilis Lapenieks, Mario Tosi
Picasso Summer, 1968 Serge Bourguignon
The Monitors, 1969 Jack Shea
Five Bloody Graves,1969
Futz, 1969 Tom O’Horgan
Vampire Men of the Lost Lost Planet, 1969
Creatures of the Prehistoric Planet, 1969
Horror of the Blood Monsters, 1970
The Lonely Man, 1969
McCabe and Mrs.Miller, 1971 Robert Altman
Red sky at Morning, 1971 James Goldstone
The Hired Hand, 1971 Peter Fonda
The Ski Bum, 1971 Bruce Clark
Images, 1972 Robert Altman
Deliverance, 1972 John Boorman
Cinderella Liberty, 1973 Mark Rydell
The Long Goodbye, 1973 Robert Altman
Scarecrow, 1973 Jerry Schatzberg
The Girl From Petrovka, 1974 Robert Ellis Miller
The Sugsrlsnf Express, 1974 Steven Spilberg
The All-American Girl ,1976 Jerry Schatzberg
Winter Kills, 1976 William Richert
Obsession, 1976 Brian De Palma
Death Riders,1976
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1978 Steven Spilberg
The Rose, 1979 Mark Rydell
The Last Waltz,1978 camera operator only,with Bob Byrne, Laszlo Kovacs, David Myers Hiro Narita, Michael Watkins, director of photography Michael Chapman
The Deer Hunter, 1979 Michael Cimino
Blow Out, 1980 Brian De Palma
Heaven’s Gate,1980 Michael Cimino
Jinxed 1981 Don Siegel
Table For Five,1982 Robert Lieberman
The River, 1983 Mark Rydell
No Small Affair,1984 Jerry Schatzberg
Real Genius, 1985 Martha Coolidge
Witches of Eastwick, 1987 George Miller
Journey to the Postcard Island, 1988
Adventure of Eagle Island,1989
Fat man and Little Boy,1990 Roland Joffe
The Two Jakes, 1990 Jack Nicholson
The Bonfire of the Vanities, 1990 Brian De Palma
Stalin, 1992 Ivan Passer HBO-TV
Silver, 1993
Intersection, 1995 Mark Rydell
Porthole to Paradise, 1995 Ivan Passer
The Crossing Guard, 1995 Sean Penn
Maverick, 1995 Richard Donner
Assassins, 1996 Richard Donner
The Ghost and the Darkness, 1996 Steven Hopkins
Playing by heart, 1998 Willard Caroll
Bánk Bán, 2001 Csaba Káel
The Body, 2001 Jonas McCord
The Mists of Avalon, 2001 Uli Edel (mini) TV Series
Life as a House, 2001 Irwin Winkler
Jersey Girl, 2004 Kevin Smith
Melinda and Melinda, 2004 Woody Allen
Surrender, Dorothy, 2005 Charles McDougall (TV)

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JOHN SCHWARTZMAN

'It's not how good you are at copying somebody else's work. It's about believing in your own aesthetic taste and sticking with your goals and dreams. My other advice is to be patient. It took me ten years to become an overnight sensation. I spent years shooting behind the scenes interviews for video presskits. Don't get discouraged. You can't expect to come out of film school and be handed the keys to a $100 million movie the next day. My other advice is to enjoy everything you do. I had as much fun shooting a movie for $600,000 as I do for $150 million. In many ways, I had more fun shooting films for $60,000, so be careful what you wish for, because it may come true. I love what I do. I love getting up in the morning and looking forward to starting another day. '

FILMOGRAPHY:
Meet the Fockers, 2004 Jay Roach
Seabiscuit, 2003 Gary Ross
The Rookie, 2002 John Lee Hancock
Pearl Harbor, 2001 Michael Bay
Edtv, 1999 Ron Howard
Armageddon,1998 Michael Bay
Conspiracy Theory, 1997 Richard Donner
The Rock, 1996 Michael Bay
Mr. Wrong, 1996 Nick Castle
A Pyromaniac's Love Story, 1995 Joshua Brand
Airheads, 1994 Michael Lehmann
Benny & Joon, 1993 Jeremiah S. Chechik
To Save a Child, 1991 Robert Lieberman
Red Surf, 1990 H. Gordon Boos
Rockula, 1990 Luca Bercovici
You Can't Hurry Love, 1988 Richard Martini