From time to time we run across a gem that has nothing much to do with current cinema but worth sharing all the same. Someone called LadyPhantomThe has collected dozens of fantastic cinematography clips and posted them on youtube. This sequence from Peter Fonda’s film The Hired Hand shot by Vilmos Zsigmond caught my attention this morning.
Vilmos Zsigmond only won one Oscar — for Close Encounters of the Third Kind. But he’s responsible for an enormous number of my favorite films from the 1970s and early ’80s.
A list of 20 favorite films lensed by Vilmos Zsigmond, in chronogical order, after the cut.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
The Hired Hand (1971)
Red Sky at Morning (1971)
Deliverance (1972)
Images (1972)
Scarecrow (1973)
Cinderella Liberty (1973)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
The Sugarland Express (1974)
Obsession (1976)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
The Rose (1979)
Winter Kills (1979)
Heaven’s Gate (1980)
Blow Out (1981)
The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
The Crossing Guard (1995)
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
Playing by Heart (1998)