Darius Khondji
出生 : 1955-10-21, Tehran, Iran
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Darius Khondji (born 21 October 1955) is an Iranian-French cinematographer. Khondji has worked with a number of high-profile directors, including David Fincher, Woody Allen, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Roman Polanski, Wong Kar-wai, Michael Haneke, Danny Boyle, Philippe Parreno, Bong Joon-ho, Nicolas Winding Refn, Paul Thomas Anderson, the Safdie brothers, Alejandro G. Iñárritu and James Gray. He was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Evita, and has been nominated for three César Awards.
Khondji was born in Tehran, Iran, to an Iranian father and a French mother. At an early age, his family relocated in France. He became interested in film early on and made Super-8 films in his teens. Later in life, he moved to the United States to study at UCLA and then majored in film from New York University and the International Center of Photography. During this period, two teachers influenced his decision to become a cinematographer: Jonas Mekas and Haig Manoogian (Martin Scorsese's film teacher). He realized that "all I wanted to do was shoot the other students' films. I was concerned with the power of the image and much less with story."
After his time in the United States, Khondji returned to France in 1981 and worked as an assistant for cinematographers like Bruno Nuytten, Martin Schafer and Pascal Marti. He also worked as a lighting director on music videos and commercials.
His second feature film was Le tresor des Iles Chiennes (1991), a low budget, black and white, post-atomic adventure film. His work on this movie was significant enough to warrant the Cahiers du cinéma to publish one of its rare interviews with a cinematographer. It was on this film that he demonstrated an affinity for Cinemascope. He remarked in an interview, "I think it's the most beautiful format to frame. One can become absorbed in the faces when they're framed in 'Scope." His subsequent work on Delicatessen established his international reputation and earned him a Cesar nomination for Best Cinematography. One of his highest profile films was Seven which he got based on a Nike ad he shot with David Fincher and his work on Delicatessen. His work on Evita was nominated for an Oscar for the Best Cinematography.
Darius worked on three European-shot films by Woody Allen: Midnight in Paris (2011), To Rome with Love (2012) and Magic in the Moonlight (2014).
In 2012, Khondji shot the Palme D'or-winning film Amour, which also won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for Best Picture.
Khondji cites Gregg Toland as his favorite cinematographer. "I particularly admire his work on John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath." He also greatly admires James Wong Howe's work, in particular Hud. Khondji has said that his dream project would be "a 16mm black and white film of On the Road!"
Khondji is married to Marianne Chemetov, a daughter of the French architect Paul Chemetov and has three children: Marie-Louise, Josephine, and Alexandre. Source: Article "Darius Khondji" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Mickey 17 is an "expendable", a disposable employee, on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of its memories intact.
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In 1980, Queens, New York, a young Jewish boy befriends a rebellious African-American classmate to the disapproval of his privileged family and begins to reckon with growing up in a world of inequality and prejudice.
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A renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, after being named the recipient of a prestigious international award, is compelled to return to his native country, unaware that this simple trip will push him to an existential limit.
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Inspired by a powerful involuntary mania which took hold of citizens in the city of Strasbourg just over five hundred years ago, this film is a collaboration in isolation with some of the greatest dancers working today.
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膨れ上がる借金と激しさを増す取り立てに、命さえも危ぶまれる状況の中、口先だけで生きてきたニューヨークの宝石商は、すべてを賭けて一獲千金を狙う。
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In a short musical film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Thom Yorke of Radiohead stars in a mind-bending visual piece. Best played loud.
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In 1965 Ingmar Bergman filmed “Persona”, the cult film that brought together all of the Swedish filmmaker’s obsessions and became a turning point in his career.
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rag & bone presents “Why Can’t We Get Along”, a ‘rag & bone Films’ Production starring Kate Mara and Ansel Elgort.
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韓国の山間の家で暮らす少女ミジャは、大きな動物オクジャの面倒を見ながら平穏な毎日を送っている。優しい心を持つオクジャは、ミジャにとって親友ともいえる大切な存在だった。ところがある日、多国籍企業ミランド社がオクジャをニューヨークに連れ去ってしまう。自己顕示欲の強いミランド社CEOルーシー・ミランドが、ある壮大な計画のためにオクジャを利用しようとしているのだ。オクジャを救うため、具体的な方策もないままニューヨークへと旅立つミジャだった。
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20世紀初頭、アマゾン奥地にあるという黄金の古代都市エル・ドラードの存在を信じる探検家のパーシー・フォーセットは、過酷なジャングルや現地の住民の襲撃など、何度も命を危険にさらしながらも探検を繰り返していた。やがて協力的だった仲間や家族も、彼に愛想を尽かしてしまう。それでもフォーセットはアマゾンに強いこだわりを見せ…。
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A very special encounter between legendary American cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond and young French director Pierre Filmon. A personal journey with the brightest shadowmaker and his friends.
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並外れた変人と評判の哲学教授エイブが、アメリカ東部の大学に新しく着任。かつて若いころは政治や社会活動に熱中して、世界中を飛び回った経験があり、女子学生のジルはそんな彼に憧れと恋心を抱いて接近するが、最近のエイブはすっかりふさぎの虫に取り付かれ、孤独で無気力な人間となっていた。ところがある日、ダイナーで偶然、ある悪徳判事の噂を小耳に挟んだ彼は、完全犯罪の計画を思い付き、それに熱中するようになる。
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魔法や超能力など信じない皮肉屋のイギリス人マジシャン、スタンリーは、ある大富豪をとりこにしているアメリカ人占い師の正体を暴いてほしいと頼まれる。南フランスの富豪宅を訪ねるも占い師ソフィが発揮する驚異的な透視能力にただただ驚かされ、それまでの人生観を覆される羽目に。その上、かれんな容姿で明るく活発な彼女に魅了されてしまう。
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1921 New York. An immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.
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In 1955 in Italy, race car driver Jed Cavalcanti suffers a mishap during the Molte Miglia rally and finds himself in a small town with a few familial surprises.
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ILLUSIONS and MIRRORS is about the futile attempt of chasing a shadow that wanders through the dunes of an empty beach. When it finally comes to an encounter in a deserted house, the young woman experienced a disturbing surprise.
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パリ在住の80代の夫婦、ジョルジュとアンヌ。共に音楽教師で、娘はミュージシャンとして活躍と、充実した日々を送っていた。ある日、教え子が開くコンサートに出向いた2人だが、そこでアンヌが病で倒れてしまう。病院に緊急搬送され、かろうじて死だけは免れたものの、半身まひという重い後遺症が残ってしまう。家に帰りたいというアンヌの強い願いから、自宅で彼女の介護を始めるジョルジュ。しかし、少しずつアンヌの症状は悪化していき、ついに死を選びたいと考えるようになり……。
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Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing voice, and he seizes the opportunity to rejuvenate his own flagging career; a young couple have separate romantic interludes; a spotlight shines on an ordinary man.
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ギル（オーウェン・ウィルソン）は婚約者（レイチェル・マクアダムス）と共に、彼女の両親の出張に便乗してパリを訪れる。彼はハリウッドで売れっ子脚本家として成功していたが、作家への夢も捨て切れずにいた。ロマンチストのギルは、あこがれの作家ヘミングウェイや画家のピカソらが暮らした1920年代の黄金期のパリに郷愁を抱いており……。
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A two-hour live concert from her Sticky & Sweet Tour from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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A sumptuous dramatic comedy set in late 19th Century France, during the Belle Epoque, a period of social and cultural excess in European upper classes which ended only as the First World War erupted.
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A film which reenacts images taken by Paul Fusco of the train voyage that transported Robert Kennedy’s corpse from New York to Washington D.C. on June 8, 1968. The film takes the point of view of the dead, a tracking shot moves through rural and urban American landscapes. People who have come to pay their respects line the tracks, staring as if in an immobile trance.
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A reminder of a long-forgotten event, combined with a challenging situation, provokes a man to extreme action.
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Americans Amy, Stacy, Jeff and Eric look for fun during a sunny holiday in Mexico, but they get much more than that after visiting an archaeological dig in the jungle.
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When Ann, husband George, and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the tight-knit clan, giving them until the next day to survive.
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ニューヨーク。失恋したエリザベスは、とあるカフェに出入りするようになる。
毎晩ブルーベリー・パイを残して待っていてくれるカフェのオーナー、ジェレミー。
優しい彼との会話に、心が慰められるエリザベスだったが、失恋相手が新しい恋人といるところを見てしまい、旅へ出ることを決める。数々の人々と出会いながら、エリザベスはジェレミーが待つニューヨークへ戻りたいと思い始める・・・
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Halfway between a sports documentary and an conceptual art installation, "Zidane" consists in a full-length soccer game (Real Madrid vs. Villareal, April 23, 2005) entirely filmed from the perspective of soccer superstar Zinedine Zidane.
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国連で通訳として働くシルビアは、謎の人物たちのグー語の会話から、ある人物の暗殺計画を偶然立ち聞きしてしまう。彼女の周りに怪しい人物が暗躍し、シークレット・サービスのトビンが彼女を守る任務につく。
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British tennis player Peter clutches to an embarrassingly low position on the tennis-ranking ladder. Handed a wild card for Wimbledon, he expects it to be his final bow.
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Watch David Fincher's journey of the filming process for Panic Room (2002) in this interesting documentary. We see the entire cast and crew throughout production until the final filming day. Many interviews and on-set footage inform us on how the shoot was.
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Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda. He has heard the phrase that life is like "anything else," but soon he finds that life with the unpredictable Amanda isn't like anything else at all.
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Her poetic two-channel video installation Tooba is based on the Koran, in which Tooba, the sacred tree of paradise, offers shelter and sustenance to those in need. Neshat's video places a woman within a groove in the trunk of a large fig tree, symbolising its soul. They stand, alone, in a stone-walled garden set in a mountainous landscape. Men and women draw near and enter the enclosure, seeking refuge, as the Tooba-woman disappears into the Tooba-tree. The piece is ambiguous. Who has agency? Is it the crowd, who 'invade' the garden or the tree-woman who draws them towards her like a magnet? Tooba is dedicated to Iranian writer Shahrnush Parsipour, whose novel Women without Men concerns five women sojourning in a garden, one of whom is transformed into a tree.
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夫と離婚して間もないメグは、11歳の娘・サラと共に、少し前に死去した老富豪が住んでいたニューヨークの豪邸に引っ越してくる。その豪邸は法律上あと数日は入居してはならないと決められていた物件だったが、販売業者のミスでメグ達は予定より早く入居してしまう。 その夜、メグ達が入居していることを知らずに、富豪の遺族の一人であるジュニアが仲間であるラウールとバーナムを連れて邸内に侵入する。ジュニアは屋敷に設けられた緊急避難用の密室「パニック・ルーム」に隠し財産があることを知り、屋敷が人手に渡る前に仲間を連れてこれを秘密裏に奪取しようと考えていたのだった。 強盗達の存在を監視カメラと物音で確認したメグはすぐに事態を察知し、娘と共にパニック・ルームへと逃げ込む。それに対し強盗達は、数々のパニック・ルームの建設に携わってきたバーナムの知識を頼りに、中から出てこさせようと様々な行動に出る。
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現実感の希薄な社会に嫌気が差し、未知のスリルを求めてタイのバンコクにやって来た米国人青年リチャード。安ホテルに泊まった彼はダフィという男性から《ビーチ》の伝説を聞き、その場所を記した地図を受け取る。翌日、自殺したダフィを発見した彼は、地図が本物だと確信し、フランス人カップル、エチエンヌとフランソワーズを仲間にして《ビーチ》を目指す。数々の危機を潜り抜け、彼らは孤島の奥に《ビーチ》を発見する。
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世界中の希少本を探す、書籍の探偵コルソ。彼はある富豪の依頼を受け、世界に3冊しかないという伝説の悪魔の祈祷書を探していた。ニューヨークからスペイン、ポルトガルと祈祷書を追って旅するコルソ。だがそんな彼の周囲では、不可思議な殺人が続発してゆく。＜禁断の書と言われる“悪魔の書”を手にした書物ブローカーに起こる迷宮的恐怖を描く。ロマン・ポランスキー監督作。＞
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A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict this person's motives through her dreams.
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A preacher without resources spends his days reciting Bible verses. One day he meets a young jobless girl who wanders on Hollywood Boulevard. An impossible love story begins.
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前作の舞台、フューリー宇宙刑務所においてリプリーは、エイリアン・クイーンを体内に宿したまま溶鉱炉に身を投じ、永きに渡るエイリアンとの戦いに幕を下ろした。しかしそれから200年後、リプリーは軍の実験宇宙船「オーリガ」で、フューリーに残されていた血液から科学者らの手によりクローンとして再生される。その目的は、リプリーの体内に残されたエイリアン・クイーンの摘出であり、エイリアンを繁殖させて軍事兵器として利用することであった。
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アルゼンチンの田舎に生まれたエバは15歳の時、タンゴ歌手の愛人となって貧しかった家を抜け出した。ブエノスアイレスに住みついた彼女は次々とパトロンを変え、ラジオの仕事から女優、国民的スターへと成長する。エバはやがて、陸軍大佐ペロンと知り合った。彼女は民衆にラジオで呼びかけ、投獄されてしまった彼を助け出し、“アルゼンチンの聖母エビータ”への道を歩き出す……。
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Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.
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定年退職間近の刑事サマセットと新人のミルズは、ある殺人現場に向かう。そこには肥満の大男の凄惨な死体があった。またほどなくして、今度はビジネスマンの死体が発見される。サマセットはそれぞれの現場に残されていた文字から、犯人がキリスト教における七つの大罪(傲慢・嫉妬・憤怒・怠惰・強欲・暴食・色欲)に因んだ殺人に及んでいると分析、残るは5件となった。事件を未然に防ごうと犯人の特定を急ぐ2人。やがて一人の男が容疑者に浮上、しかし接近するも取り逃がし、さらなる犠牲者を出してしまう。そんな中、大罪に沿った犯行が残り2件となったところで、犯人を名乗る男が自首して来るのだが…。
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近未来の半ば朽ちかけたような港町に子供の失踪事件が続発。実は町に横行する一つ目教団が、沖合に浮かぶ奇妙な実験室に住む天才クローン人間クランク（ダニエル・エミルフォルク）に夢を見させるため、誘拐していたのだ。サーカスの怪力男ワン（ロン・パールマン）の幼い弟ダンレー（ジョゼフ・ルシアン）も誘拐される。ワンは9歳のミエット（ジュディット・ビッテ）率いる孤児の泥棒団に出会う。彼女たちは孤児院を経営するシャム双生児の姉妹の命令下にあり、ワンも腕力を買われて一味に入らされる。ミエットはワンの弟探しに同情して、二人は一つ目教団の本拠に潜入するが捕まり、処刑されることに。
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The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant.
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An anthology movie comprising four weird stories. Like the Twilight Zone movie but strictly played for laughs. There’s a bit of everything, car explosions, french debauchery, serial-killers, crazy broads, silly humor and naughty language…
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In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.
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Chronicles five of fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh's muses, the supermodels of the early 1990s.
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The world after the atomic age. An engineer disappears, together with his consortium (Kryo'Corp) and his discovery: a new energy source powered by the fusion of two primary substances. Ulysses, Kryo'Corp's heir, organises an expedition to the only place these substances occur.
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The life of a twelve-year-old living with her mother is disrupted by the arrival of a very young man at home. While her feelings become confused and the dramas burst, the girl will try to find in his entourage someone able to listen and understand it, before the worst happens.
