How 'Schindler's List' launched one of the all-time great director-cinematographer collaborations. 'He loves, genuinely loves, making movies, and that's it,' Janusz Kamiński says of Steven Spielberg.
Janusz Kamiński had just finished shooting a 1993 TV movie called “Class of ’61,” produced by Steven Spielberg. The hitmaker, who had yet to win his first Oscar, liked what he saw in the young cinematographer. He approached Kamiński with another job offer.
stands among their most personal collaborations. Like many of their films, including “Amistad,” “Munich,” “Lincoln” and “Bridge of Spies,” it’s a period piece. But the subject isn’t some imposing historical event or figure. It’s Spielberg’s life. Cinematographer Janusz Kamińsky has worked with director Steven Spielberg on more than 20 films, including “Minority Report,” starring Tom Cruise. Kamińsky noted the duo have worked on period and futuristic films, but never a contemporary story.
Kamiński is one of many Eastern European cinematographers who have found favor with American directors, including László Kovács and Vilmos Zsigmond, who shot Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” Kamiński refers to an “Eastern European aesthetic” — drab, gray — that contrasts with the inviting color scheme of so many Hollywood movies.
There’s his work ethic: “He cuts the movie at lunch, after lunch, on the weekend, and four weeks or five weeks after we finish principal photography the picture is locked.”
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