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)
Cassandra's Dream, 2007
Torn from the Flag, 2006
The Black Dahlia, 2006

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ELEMÉR RAGÁLYI

A native of Budapest, Elemér Ragályi studied his craft at the Hungarian Film Academy. Over the past 35 years he has shot 100 features, mini-series, TV movies, and documentaries. He is one of the most active Hungarian cinematographers. He has worked extensively in North America and throughout Europe, and is fully bilingual in English and Hungarian.

He has received the Critic's prize for Best Cinematography six times at the Hungarian Film Festival. Many of the films he has shot have won awards at international film festivals, the Oscars, the Emmy's, and the ACE's.

He returned to the Hungarian Film Academy as a professor from 1982 to 1990. In Hungary he has received these awards of distinction: Béla Balázs prize, Artist of Merit, Outstanding Artist, and the Kossuth prize.

In the last three years he directed two features.

CREDITS

Film Director / Cinematographer

2006
WITHOUT MERCY (Hungarian film)
D/P: Márton Ragályi
with Gábor Nagypál

2004
MIRACLE FILM (Hungarian-Greek)
with Katerina Didaskolou, András Kern, Péter Rudolf

Cinematographer

2005
THE MOON AND THE STARS (English-Italian-Hungarian)
Dir.: Irvin John
with Alfred Molina, Jonathan Price

2003
RING (American)
Dir.: Uli Edel
DADDY GOES NUTS (feature)
Dir.: Tamás Sas
with Boglárka Csõsz, Kata Gáspár

2002
ROSA?S SONGS (feature film)
Dir.: Andor Szilágyi
with Franco Castellani, Maya Morgenstein, Ildikó Bánsági, Djoko Rosic
DOWN BY LOVE (feature film)
Dir.: Tamas Sas
with Patrícia Kovács
A WEEK AT BUDA AND PEST (feature film)
Dir.: Karoly Makk
with Mari Törõcsik, Iván Darvas

2001
DRACULA (NBC)
Dir.: Roger Young

2000/1
ANNE FRANK (Disney, ABC) Emmy for best Mini - Series
Dir.:Robert Dornhelm
with Ben Kingsley,Hannah Taylor Gordon,Brenda Blethyn

2000
IN THE BEGINNING
(four hours mini-series for NBC)
directed by Kevin Connor
with Jacqueline Bisset, Martin Lendau

1999
AMERICAN RHAPSODY (feature film)
directed by Éva Gárdos
produced by Peter Hoffmann and Andy G. Vajna
with Nastasia Kinsky
DAVID COPPERFIELD
directed by Peter Medak
with Sally Field

1998
CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT (Disney Production)
directed by Roger Young
with Whoopy Goldberg
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
directed by Joe Sergent
with Ben Kingsley

1997 JACOB THE LIAR (Columbia Tristar)
with Robin Williams
OUT OF ORDER (Hungarian feature film)
SCROOGE (Dickens, American)
Dir. John Korty
with Cecilia Tyson

1996
HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (American)
Dir. Peter Medák
TRILOGY OF TERROR (American)

1995
SZTRACSATELLA (Hungarian)
RASPUTIN (HBO)
Dir. Ulrich Edel
with: Alan Rickman
EMMY-PRIZE 1996

NEVER TALK TO STRANGERS (TRI STARS)
Dir. Sir Peter Hall
with: Rebecca de Morney
Antonio Banderas

1994
KID IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT (American)
Dir. Michael Gottlieb
CATHERINE THE GREAT (American-German)
Dir. Marvin Chomsky
with: Catherine Zita Jones

1993
MESMER (American)
Dir. Roger Spottiswood
with: Alan Rickman
CHARLEMAGNE (Italian-French-German coproduction)
mini-series
Dir. Clive Donner

1992
MAIGRET (British) Granada TV - six episodes
with: Michael Gambon
FAMILY PICTURES (American) NBC Movie
with: Angelica Huston
Sam Neil
MASQUARADE (American)
Dir. David Hemmings, NBC
LIFE ON THE HIGH WIRE (American) HBO Movie
Dir. Aliaster Ried
with: Brian Denephy

1991
MAIGRET (British) Granada TV - six episodes
with: Michael Gambon
GRAVY TRAIN (British) Granada TV, Movie

1990
THE JOSEPHINE BAKER STORY (American) HBO Movie
Dir. Brian Gibson
with: Lynn Whitfield
"ACE" AWARD FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
SACRAMENT (American) HBO Movie
Dir. David Greene
with: Keith Carridine
Kate Nelligan

1989
JOURNEY OF HOPE (Swiss)
Dir. Xavier Koller
1991 OSCAR AWARD FOR "BEST FOREIGN FILM"
MAX AND HELEN (American) HBO Movie
Dir. Philip Saville
with: Treat Williams
"ACE" AWARD NOMINATION FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
RED KING, WHITE KNIGHT (American) HBO Movie
Dir. Cooff Murphy
with: Max von Sydow
Tom Skerrit
"ACE" AWARD NOMINATION FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (American)
Dir. Dwight Little

1988
JACK THE KNIFE (American)
Dir/Prod: Menahem Golan
with: Raul Julia
Roger Daultry
Richard Harris
MURDERERS AMONG US
THE SIMON WIESENTHAL STORY (American) HBO Movie
Dir. Brian Gibson
with: Ben Kingsley
STAND OFF (Hungarian)
Dir. Gyula Gazdag

1987
HANNA GO WAR (American)
Dir. Menahem Golan
WINTER IN HUNGARY (Hungarian, documentary)
Dir/DOP: Elemér Ragályi
MISS ARIZONA (Italian-Hungarian coproduction)
Dir. Pál Sándor
with: Marcello Mastroiani
Hannah Schygulla

1986
QUEEN LIVE IN BUDAPEST (Hungarian)
Dir. János Zsombolyai
HUNGARIAN FAIRY TALE (Hungarian)
Dir. Gyula Gazdag
WINNER OF THE MAIN PRIZE AT THE NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL
LOVE, MOTHER (Hungarian)
Dir. János Rózsa
THE GREAT GENERATION (Hungarian)
Dir. Ferenc András

1985
THE BLACK TANNER (Swiss)
Dir. Xavier Koller
EMBRYO (Hungarian)
Dir. Pál Zolnay

1984
PACKAGE TOUR (Hungarian)
Dir. Gazdag Gyula
JUST A MOVIE (Hungarian)
Dir. Sándor Pál
FLOWERS OF REVERIE (Hungarian)
Dir. Lugossy László
WINNER OF THE 1985 BERLIN SILVER BEAR

1983
THE LONG RIDE (American-Hungarian coproduction)
Dir. Pál Gábor
with: John Savage

1982
DANIEL TAKES THE TRAIN (Hungarian)
Dir. Pál Sándor
WINNER OF THE 1983 CANNES FIPRESCI PRIZE
THE VULTURE (Hungarian)
Dir. András Ferenc
WINNER OF THE 1983 BERLIN AUDIENCE PRIZE

1981
TRADITIONS (Hungarian documentary)
Dir/DOP: Elemér Ragályi
THE CONCERT (Hungarian)
Dir. Gábor Koltay
SOLOMON & STOCK SHOW (Hungarian)
Dir. Pál Sándor

1980
DUTY-FREE MARRIAGE (Hungarian)
Dir. János Zsombolyai
THE HEIRESS (French-Hungarian coproduction)
Dir. Márta Mészáros
with: Isabelle Huppert

1979
SUNDAY'S PARENTS (Hungarian)
Dir. János Rózsa
WINNER OF THE GRAND PRIZE AT MONTREAL FILM FESTIVAL
THE LAST JUDGEMENT BUT ONE (Hungarian)
Dir. Ferenc Grunwalsky
MAYBE TOMORROW (Hungarian)
Dir. Judit Elek

1978
THE TRUMPETER (Hungarian)
Dir. János Rózsa
DELIVER US FROM EVIL (Hungarian)
Dir. Pál Sándor
WINNER OF BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY PRIZE, MONTREAL FILMFEST

1977
SWAP (Hungarian)
Dir. Gyula Gazdag
DON'T LEAN OUT OF THE WINDOW (Hungarian)
Dir. János Zsombolyai
WINNER OF THE 1978 GRAND PRIX, MONTREAL FILM FESTIVAL
SHAMAN (Hungarian)
Dir. Pál Zolnay

1976
SPIDER FOOTBALL (Hungarian)
Dir. János Rózsa
THE WIND IS WHISTLING UNDER THEIR FEET (Hungarian)
Dir. György Szomjas
A STRANGE ROLE (Hungarian)
Dir. Pál Sándor
WINNER OF THE 1977 SILVER BEAR, BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL

1975
REQUIEM FOR A REVOLUTIONARY (Hungarian)
Dir. Ferenc Grunwalsky
A COMMON PLACE STORY (Hungarian)
Dir. Judit Elek
NEW YEARS EVE (Hungarian documentary)
Dir/DOP: Elemér Ragályi

1974
SINGING ON THE TREAD MILL (Hungarian)
Dir. Gyula Gazdag
A PLACE IN THE SUN (Hungarian)
Dir. Péter Szász
FOOTBALL OF THE GOOD OLD YEARS (Hungarian)
Dir. Pál Sándor
DREAMING YOUTH (Hungarian)
Dir. János Rózsa
HUNGARIAN VILLAGE (Hungarian)
Dir. Judit Elek

1973
SCHOOL FOR OPERATORS (Hungarian documentary)
Dir. Elemér Ragályi
MARTIN CUCKOO (Hungarian)
Dir. György Révész

1972
STROKES UPON REQUEST (Hungarian)
Dir. János Rózsa
PHOTOGRAPHY (Hungarian)
Dir. Pál Zolnay
WINNER OF THE 1973 MOSCOW SILVER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE 1974 CHICAGO SILVER MEDAL

1971
BIRDS (Hungarian)
Dir. Géza Böszörményi
SARA MY DEAR (Hungarian)
Dir. Pál Sándor

1970
PUNITIVE EXPEDITION (Hungarian)
Dir. András Kovács
RELAY RACE (Hungarian documentary)
Dir. Pál Gábor
THE FACE (Hungarian)
Dir. Pál Zolnay
THE FALCONS (Hungarian)
Dir. István Gál
WINNER OF THE 1970 CANNES JURY PRIZE

1969 THE BIG BLUE SIGN (Hungarian)
Dir. László Nádassy
GET UP AND WALK (Hungarian)
Dir. Pál Zolnay
LADY FROM CONSTANTINOPOLE (Hungarian)
THE VISIT (Hungarian)
Dir. Pál Gábor

1968
HOW TO MAKE A PAPER HAT (Hungarian)
Dir. Zsolt Kézdi Kovács
NAVIGARE (Hungarian)
Dir. Gyula Kiss

1967 HOW LONG DOES MAN MATTER (Hungarian)
Dir. Judit Elek