American Cinematographer - June 2020 - 4

We're celebrating American Cinematographer magazine's 100th
anniversary throughout the year on our website - ascmag.com -
by revisiting exceptional stories covered in its pages. This month,
we highlight memorable films from the 1970s, including:
Chinatown
(May 1975)
"Necessity is
the mother of
invention, as
the old saying
goes, so if you
are forced to shoot within a four-walled room, you start
creating ways of doing it and making it look real and
making it look good." - John A. Alonzo, ASC
Deliverance
(August 1971)
"We are trying
to shoot this
picture in a
very realistic
and modern
style - which means, basically, that we want it to have a
lot of contrast, but no harsh colors."
- Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC, HSC

Logan's Run
(June 1976)
"I'd worked
with producer
Saul David
before, on Fantastic Voyage,
which turned out very successfully. So, when he gave me
the script of this picture, I could tell that it was going to be
an exciting project - quite unique and extremely challenging." - Ernest Laszlo, ASC

Patton
(August 1970)
"I wish you
could walk
into a location
and say, yes,
you can shoot
it as it is, because it is often so beautiful. But you can't do
it. To get up to your film speed, you need light." - Fred J.
Koenekamp, ASC

The Long Goodbye (March 1973)
"We were making a 'today' picture, but we wanted the
look of 20 years ago. It is very difficult to talk about it in
words, but we did
not want to re-create the '50s, but to
remember them."
- Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC, HSC

Rocky
(Feb. 1977)
"I was first
contacted
about photographing
Rocky by
director John G. Avildsen. 'We've got a fight picture,' he
told me. 'It's sort of like an old-fashioned movie.' Both of
those elements appealed to me." - James Crabe, ASC

Westworld
(November 1973)
"[Writer-director]
Michael Crichton
and I were total
strangers when
we first met. But
neither of us lacked material by way of our respective
backgrounds to provide the basis for a lively and interesting interview. The 'chemistry was good' and Michael hired
me." - Gene Polito, ASC
Barry Lyndon
(March 1976)
"Stanley Kubrick gave
me my break. Our working relationship is close
because we think exactly
alike photographically.
We really do see eye-toeye on photography." - John Alcott, BSC
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