Gordon Willis, Cinematographer Who Gave Woody Allen Films Their Look, Dies

 

"One cinematographer had established a kind of noir color look, rich in brown, amber and shadow, that was a vital force in the noir movies made in Hollywood in the 1970s," film historian David Thomson wrote of Willis in his New Biographical Dictionary of Film.

For a while, I really didn't know what to do with that movie," he said of the original Godfather in a 2002 on NPR's Fresh Air. "I finally decided this should have this brassy, yellow look to it. Don't ask me why. It just felt right."

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