Monday, April 20, 2020

A COVID-19 victim with a Spielberg connection

One of the best features of Spielberg's early 1980's movies ET, Empire of the Sun and The Color Purple was the pleasing cinematography.   I've noted before that movies at that time often had a warm, glowing look in the cinematography which I think is quite distinctive in retrospect, and still a pleasure to behold.  Cinematography, perhaps because it is mostly digital now*, has a colder, cooler look about it, usually. 

The cinematographer of those 3 films, Alan Daviau, has died aged 77 from COVID complications.

Sad.

* just found this graph from January 2016 that illustrates the change:


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