Jean-Yves Escoffier

Jean-Yves Escoffier

出生 : 1950-07-12, Lyon, France

死亡 : 2003-04-01

略歴

Jean-Yves Escoffier (July 12, 1950 – April 1, 2003) was a French cinematographer. Escoffier worked as director of photography on a number of films of Leos Carax including Boy Meets Girl, Mauvais sang, and Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, on a number of European and American feature films including The Human Stain, Possession, Nurse Betty, The Cradle Will Rock, Rounders, and Good Will Hunting, as well as Harmony Korine's Gummo. He also worked with Mehdi Norowzian, Jeanne Moreau for Air France, David Lynch for Nissan Motors, and on music videos, "Hurt" (2002) for Johnny Cash and Mark Romanek. On April 1, 2003, Escoffier died from a heart attackin his home in Los Angeles, California during production of The Human Stain, a film since dedicated to his memory. Source: Article "Jean-Yves Escoffier" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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白いカラス
Director of Photography
コールマン・シルクは、世界的に尊敬されている教授だが、無意識のうちに人種差別的な発言をしてしまい、職を失ってしまう。潔白を証明するために、シルクは友人である同僚のネイサン・ザッカーマンと共に事件についての本を書くが、その過程でザッカーマンはシルクが生涯隠し続けてきた暗い秘密を知ることになる。その間、シルクは若い女性ファウニア・ファーリーと関係を持つ。彼女の苦悩に満ちた過去は、シルクが作り上げた幾重もの欺瞞を解き明かそうとしている。
Possession
Director of Photography
Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of poems dedicated to his wife. When Maud and Roland discover a cache of love letters that appear to be from Ash to La Motte, they follow a trail of clues across England, echoing the journey of the couple over a century earlier.
15ミニッツ
Director of Photography
ニューヨーク市警察殺人課の刑事エディ・フレミングは、数々の大事件を解決し、その度にマスコミに登場し英雄扱いされる有名刑事である。ニュース番組「トップ・ストーリー」のアンカーマン、ロバート・ホーキンスも、そういう事件を報道して視聴率を稼いできたひとりである。 ある日、チェコ人とロシア人の2人組による凶悪な犯罪が起こる。エディは捜査に同行したいという若手消防署員ジョーディと共に事件を追うが、エディは2人に捕まり、殺害されてしまう。ロバートはエディの殺害シーンを撮影したビデオテープを2人から買い取り、自分の番組で放送するのだった。
ベティ・サイズモア
Director of Photography
アメリカの小さな町に住むベティ。ある事件から彼女の夫が殺された彼女は、ショックのあまり空想の世界に逃避してしまう。モーガン・フリーマン、レニー・ゼルウィガー主演のナンセンス・コメディ。
Cradle Will Rock
Director of Photography
A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
Agujetas Cantaor
Director of Photography
Documentary based on the figure of Manuel Agujetas (Manuel de los Santos Pastor 1939-2015), mythical cantaor and one of the last representatives of the Flamenco de Jerez school. Essential figure of flamenco.
ラウンダーズ
Director of Photography
ニューヨークのロー・スクールに通うマイクはある日、少しずつ貯めたポーカーの賞金3万ドルをテディーKGBとの対戦で一気に失ってしまう。恋人ジョーの説得もあって、マイクはこれを機にポーカーから足を洗って法律の勉強に専念することを決意する。 しかし、友人でギャンブラーのワームの出所を境にこの決意は崩れ、マイクは闇賭博のポーカーの世界へ引き込まれていく。
グッド・ウィル・ハンティング/旅立ち
Director of Photography
深い心の傷を負った天才青年と、同じく失意の中にいた精神分析医がお互いにあらたな旅立ちを自覚して成長してゆく姿を描く感動のヒューマン・ドラマ。ボストンに住む青年ウィルは、幼い頃から天才ゆえに周囲から孤立していた。だが、彼の才能に気付いた数学教授のランボーは、ウィルに精神分析医のショーンを紹介する。ウィルはショーンにしだいに心を開いてゆくが、彼の才能に気付いた政府機関や大企業が接近してくる。
GUMMO ガンモ
Director of Photography
大竜巻の被害を受けたオハイオ州ジーニア。荒廃しきった町で無為な日々をすごす住民たち。野良猫を肉屋に売りつけて日銭を稼ぐソロモンとタムラー 。妹とふざけ散らすドットとその友人の女の子。町はずれをうろつくうさぎの帽子をかぶったままのバニーボーーイ。ソロモンの母もタムラーの父も、大人も子供もその...
Excess Baggage
Director of Photography
A rich brat fakes her own kidnapping, but in the process ends up locked in the trunk of a car that gets stolen.
Grace of My Heart
Director of Photography
Philadelphia teenager Edna Buxton wins a talent contest during the early rock 'n' roll era, changes her name to Denise Waverly and moves to New York City to make it big. Though she flops as a recording artist, fast-talking record producer Joel Millner recognizes her songwriting talent and teams her with struggling songsmith Howard Caszatt.
THE CROW/ザ・クロウ
Director of Photography
After Ashe and his little son are murdered violently for no reason by Judah's men, he returns from the dead to take revenge. One after one, Judah's people face the power of the dark angel. The second film based on James O'Barr's cult comic.
Jack & Sarah
Director of Photography
Jack always lands on his feet. He lands on his feet when he marries the beautiful Sarah. He lands on his feet when he buys a luxurious new home. However, when Sarah goes into labour, he takes a tumble down the stairs and lands on his head. When he comes around he discovers he is the proud father of a baby girl, but deficient in the spouse department to the tune of 1.
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
Camera Operator
Martin Scorsese celebrates American movies from the silent classics to the Hollywood of the seventies.
Witch Hunt
Director of Photography
Magic and murder connect an actress, a private eye, a senator and a witch in 1950s Hollywood.
Dream Lover
Director of Photography
Ray is young, charming, successful and the owner of a prosperous architect company. However, he has recently gone through a very painful divorce. His friends try to cheer him up by showing him the positive sides of being single but for Ray marriage and stability is just too important. But when he meets Lena his gloom is quickly forgotten.
ポンヌフの恋人
Director of Photography
Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and an affliction which is slowly turning her blind.
汚れた血
Director of Photography
愛の無いセックスで感染する奇病STBOが蔓延するパリ。幼少の頃から虚無感や孤独感に生きてきた青年アレックスは、恋人リーズと居る時も虚しさは同じだった。原因不明の腹痛にも襲われ生活に嫌気がさしたアレックスは、人生を何とかして変えなければと考え続けていた。そんな矢先、行方知れずの父親が電車に轢かれ死んでしまう。アレックスの父親の友人マルクは彼の多大なる借金を背負うこととなり、STBOの血清を盗み密売する作戦を考え出す。そしてその作戦に必要な人材としてアレックスを見つけ出す。アレックスは作戦に乗るが、そこでマルクの恋人であるアンナにかつてない運命を感じ、物語は動き始める。
Ulysse
Director of Photography
At the sea shore, a goat, a child, and a naked man. This is a photograph taken in 1954 by Agnès Varda. The goat was dead, the child was named Ulysses, and the man was naked. Starting from this frozen image, the film explores the real and the imaginary.
Three Men and a Cradle
Director of Photography
Three young men (Jacques, Pierre and Michel) share an apartment in Paris, and have many girlfriends and parties. Once, during a party, a friend of Jacques' tells him he has a quite compromising package to deliver, and asks him if he can leave it discreetly at their place. Jacques agrees and, as he works as a steward, flies away for a one month trip in Japan, telling Pierre and Michel about the package. Then, one of Jacques' former girlfriends drops a baby before their door, making Pierre and Michel believing it is the package they are waiting for. Their lives are then completely changed.
Rude Raid
Director of Photography
A surrealist, futuristic short film.
ボーイ・ミーツ・ガール
Director of Photography
Paris by night. Alex, 22, wants to become a filmmaker. He is fascinated by first times and his girlfriend, Florence, has just left him for his best friend, Thomas. First break-up, first attempted murder: Alex tries to strangle Thomas, but gives up and wanders the streets. That evening, Mireille, a girl from provincial France who has come up to Paris to make commercials, is left by her boyfriend. Alex witnesses this separation. These two tormented souls run into each other at a party.
The Eyes of the Birds
Director of Photography
A Red Cross inspection team visits a prison and holds interviews with a range of inmates.
Ballade à blanc
Director of Photography
Lourdes l'hiver
Cinematography
Simone Barbès or Virtue
Director of Photography
Simone and Martine are usherettes in a porno cinema in Montparnasse. Installed in the hall, they greet regulars, put men in their place, chat and pass the time. At midnight Simone departs to a lesbian nightclub.
Mountain Pass
Director of Photography
Serge (Stevenin) is a dweller in the French provinces who happens upon Georges (Jacques Villeret), a Parisian motorist in distress. Serge arranges for the car to be taken to a nearby garage. Georges' friends, who were with him in the car, have continued their journeys. Because of that, Serge takes Georges under his wings while he waits for his car to be repaired, and they tour the countryside and party with the local revelers. Nothing much is said between them, but it is clear that they have become friends
Lumière
Second Assistant Camera
Sarah, an actress nearing her forties, has invited 3 friends to join her for a holiday in Provence. This is the prologue for what happened a year ago in Paris with a man Sarah had long considered a platonic friend. She had just finished a film, had also finished her relationship with the director and was about to receive an award…