Stefan Czapsky

Stefan Czapsky

出生 : 1950-12-15, Oldenburg, Germany

略歴

Stefan Czapsky is a Ukrainian-American cinematographer, best known for his acclaimed collaborations with director Tim Burton on films like Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, and Ed Wood, for which he won several film critics' awards.

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Stefan Czapsky

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クリスマス・ウィズ・ユー
Director of Photography
Feeling career burnout, pop star Angelina escapes to grant a young fan's wish in small-town New York, where she not only finds the inspiration to revitalize her career but also a shot at true love.
Max
Director of Photography
A dog that helped soldiers in Afghanistan returns to the U.S. and is adopted by his handler's family after suffering a traumatic experience.
SAFE/セイフ
Director of Photography
八百長試合で誤って相手をKOしてしまったために、損害を被ったマフィアに妻を殺された元刑事の格闘家。地下鉄のホームで命を絶とうと思いつめていると……。主演のジェイソン・ステイサムがハードなアクションに挑戦した一作。
アルティメット・ファイター
Director of Photography
ニューヨークの路上で偽造品を売って生計を立てるショーン・マッカーサー。ストリートファイトのコーチ、ハーヴェイ・ボーデンに見出され、人生が変わり始める。
俺たちフィギュアスケーター
Director of Photography
フィギュアスケート世界選手権シングル部門決勝。幼い頃に才能を見込まれ、義父から英才教育を受けてきた美青年ジミーと、アダルトかつ破天荒なパフォーマンスで観客を沸かせるチャズは、共にスター選手であり実力は互角なものの犬猿の仲であった。同点1位を獲得した二人は表彰式で互いの不満が遂に爆発。乱闘騒ぎを起こし、協会から金メダルの剥奪と参加部門からの永久追放処分を受けてしまうが…。
The Making of 'Last Exit to Brooklyn'
A wonderful making of featurette that focuses on the controversial novel that inspired 'Last Exit to Brooklyn' as well the production history of the film. German director Uli Edel and members of his technical crew also discuss some of the obstacles that had to be overcome while shooting on location in Brooklyn. The real characters that are portrayed in the film are also interviewed.
Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight - Dark Side of the Knight
Self
A look behind the scenes at the making of "Batman Returns" (1992).
Bulletproof Monk
Director of Photography
A mysterious and immortal Tibetan kung fu master, who has spent the last 60 years traveling around the world protecting the ancient Scroll of the Ultimate, mentors a selfish street kid in the ancient intricacies of kung fu.
ワイルド・ワイルド・ウエスト
Director of Photography
1869年のルイジアナ。陸軍軍人のジム・ウエストは、”ニューオリンズの殺人鬼”と言われたマグラス将軍を追っていた。ある酒場で将軍を追いつめたウエストは、同じくマグラスを追っていた連邦保安官のゴードンと出会う。グラント大統領からの命で、2人はコンビを組むことになったのだが、性格も価値観も違う2人は反発し合うばかり…。
マチルダ
Director of Photography
天才少女のマチルダは小さい頃から両親に理解されず、やっと行かせてもらえた小学校で優しい女性教師と出会う。そんな彼女の能力を否定する校長先生に悩まされる学校生活の中、妙なパワーを発揮し始める。
エド・ウッド
Director of Photography
実在の映画監督で、“史上最低の監督”と謳われた、エドワード・D・ウッド・ジュニア--通称エド・ウッドの伝記的作品。50年代のハリウッド。スタジオの片隅で使い走りをしながら、映画監督になる日を夢見て働いていた映画青年エドは、ある日業界誌に載った性転換をした男性の物語の映画化を知り、本物の服装倒錯者だったエドは、シナリオを3日間で書き上げ、ふとしたきっかけで知り合った往年のドラキュラ俳優、ベラ・ルゴシの出演を条件に資金を得て、監督デビューを飾るが……。
Prelude to a Kiss
Director of Photography
A couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happens that tests it.
バットマン リターンズ
Director of Photography
クリスマス近いゴッサムシティ。市民は謎の怪人ペンギンの出現に戦慄していた。一方、市の電力を独占しようとたくらむ実業家マックスは、秘密を知った秘書セリーナを殺害しようと窓から突き落す。命を取りとめた彼女は女性の犯罪者、キャットウーマンとなって社会とマックスに復讐を誓う。やがて手を組んだキャットウーマンとペンギンは、マスコミ操作でネガティブキャンペーンを張り、邪魔者バットマンを追放しようたくらむ。
A Brief History of Time
Director of Photography
This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and unable to speak without the use of a computer. Hawking's friends, family, classmates, and peers are interviewed not only about his theories but the man himself.
The Dark Wind
Director of Photography
An Indian police officer is mixed up in murder and drug smuggling on the reservation.
シザーハンズ
Director of Photography
エドワードは、発明家の博士によって生み出された人造人間。だが、完成直前に博士が急死してしまった為、彼は両手がハサミのままこの世に残されてしまう。その後、ゴースト屋敷のような丘の上の家で、顔が傷だらけで孤独な日々を送っていた彼の元にある日、化粧品のセールス・ウーマンのペグが訪ねて来た。心優しい彼女は、そんな彼の姿に同情し、自分の家に連れて帰る。そうして家の中へ通された彼は、写真に写っているペグの娘キムに心奪われ、彼女に恋してしまう。
チャイルド・プレイ2
Director of Photography
前作で息絶えたチャッキーだったが、アンディとグッドガイ人形の事件が全国で取り上げられグッドガイ人形の製造元は人気が低迷した。チャッキーを復元して人形に異常はないということを証明しようとしていたのだが、人形にはまだ凶悪殺人鬼の魂が残っていた。元に戻ったチャッキーは再び魂を取るためアンディを探しにいくのであった。
フラッシュバック
Director of Photography
1960年代反体制運動のリーダーとFBIの若手捜査官が繰り広げる珍道中を、「イージー・ライダー」のデニス・ホッパー&人気TVシリーズ「24」のキーファー・サザーランド共演で描いたロードムービー。かつてヒッピーたちのカリスマ的存在だった活動家ヒューイは、長きにわたる逃亡生活の末、ついに逮捕される。ヒューイの護送を命じられた真面目なFBI捜査官ジョンは長距離列車で刑務所を目指すが、その途中でヒューイに騙され、彼の代わりに留置所に入れられてしまう。
Sons
Director of Photography
A comedy drama that played the festival circuit before vanishing without trace. Forsythe, Sweeney and Miranda are the trio of stepbrothers accompanying paralysed father Fuller on a jaunt to Normandy, where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war. Jennifer Beals, a regular in husband Rockwell's movies, plays a transvestite.
Fear, Anxiety & Depression
Director of Photography
This film focuses on the trials and tribulations of Ira (Todd Solondz), who is an unsuccessful playwright trying to find himself in New York City.
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Director of Photography
A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant.
Vampire's Kiss
Director of Photography
A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a vampire and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his affliction. The vampire continues to visit and drink his blood, and as his madness deepens, it begins to look as if some of the events he's experiencing may be hallucinations.
The Thin Blue Line
Director of Photography
Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas.
メイトワン-1920
Key Grip
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.
At Close Range
Gaffer
Brad Whitewood Jr. lives in rural Pennsylvania and has few prospects. Against his mother's wishes, he seeks out his estranged father, the head of a gang of thieves in a nearby town. Though his new girlfriend supports his criminal ambitions, Brad Jr. soon learns that his father is a dangerous man. Inspired by the real events that led to the end of the Johnston Gang, who operated in the northeastern United States in the 1970s.
Blank Generation
Gaffer
Nada, a beautiful French journalist on assignment in New York, records the life and work of an up and coming punk rock star, Billy. Soon she enters into a volatile relationship with him and must decide whether to continue with it, or return to her lover, a fellow journalist trying to track down the elusive Andy Warhol.
ニックス・ムービー/水上の稲妻
Gaffer
Director 'Nicholas Ray' is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1983) in Hollywood, but flies to New York to help Ray realize his final wish. Ray's original intent is to make a fiction film about a dying painter who sails to China to find a cure for his disease. He and Wenders discuss this idea, but it is obviously unrealistic given Ray's state of health.
Nocturna
Gaffer
Hard times have fallen on the Transylvanian House of Dracula. To help pay the taxes, Castle Dracula has been converted into the Hotel Transylvania. Dracula himself is aging and toothless, being cared for by his granddaughter Nocturna. When Nocturna books a disco group to play The Claret Room and winds up falling in love with one of the backup guitarists, a mortal named Jimmy, she notices that she is able to see her reflection when she dances, so she decides to follow Jimmy to New York in search of mortality.
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Assistant Camera
The files that escaped the shredder have become an incredible motion picture. From the Kennedys to Martin Luther King. From cab drivers to Congressmen. From housewives to hostesses. He had something on 58 million people. It was all in his files. Now you can see how he used it.
Nanook Taxi
First Assistant Camera
Ningiuksiak, an Inuk who lives in the settlement of Cape Dorset, is on a hunt with his family. On his way back to Cape Dorset, Ningiuksiak's snowmobile breaks down. Since he does not have the money to fix it he decides to leave his family and fly to the town of Frobisher Bay to make some money. Ningiuksiak's cousin in Frobisher Bay, Ashoona, a somewhat urbanized Inuk who makes his living as a construction worker or as a cab driver, has drifted away from hunting and the traditional way of life of the remote settlements. Ashoona takes Ningiuksiak in hand and helps him to get a job driving for the Nanook Taxi Company. Increasingly unhappy and bewildered, Ningiuksiak takes to spending his money on liquor and his time in seedy nightclubs. One night, half-heartedly trying to show that he is having a good time, he looks up and sees his wife. She has come to take him home to Cape Dorset.
ディーモン 悪魔の受精卵
Assistant Camera
A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to."