Isidore Mankofsky

Nascimento : 1931-09-22, New York City, New York, USA

Morte : 2021-03-11

História

Isidore Mankofsky (September 22, 1931 – March 11, 2021) was an American cinematographer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Isidore Mankofsky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmes

Too Loud a Solitude
Director of Photography
An elderly paper-crusher branded a fool in Prague secretly stashes condemned books, preserving their contents and extrapolating from them eccentric scenarios of wit.
4 Faces
Director of Photography
A southern pastor under fire, a father with an addicted son, an SS man in South America and a holocaust survivor in four tales, portrayed by the same actor.
She Cried No
Director of Photography
A college freshman is date-raped and tries to press charges.
A Invasão
Second Unit Director of Photography
Zane Ziminski (Charlie Sheen), um astrônomo, capta sinais do espaço sideral. Como acredita que estejam sendo enviados por uma vida inteligente, reporta ao seu superior, Phil Gordian (Ron Silver), que alega uma desculpa e o demite, destruindo em seguida a gravação dos sons. Mas Zane decide investigar os sinais por conta própria e capta sinais semelhantes vindos do México. Ele deduz então que estes sinais possam ser uma "conversa" com alienígenas escondidos na Terra e já em uma aldeia mexicana se une a Ilana Green (Lindsay Crouse), uma cientista que tem suspeitas de algo estranho após testemunhar uma aceleração do efeito estufa.
The Heidi Chronicles
Director of Photography
Heidi Holland is a woman on the long and often bumpy road of self-discovery from the 1960s to 1990s. The movie follows her path from high-school egghead, to feminist supporter, to intellectual art dealer/mother, and chronicles her ups and downs and revelations.
Whose Daughter is She?
Director of Photography
Whose Daughter is She?
Father and Scout
Director of Photography
A father gets a crash course in the outdoors in this made for television comedy for kids. Comedian Bob Saget stars as an urban living dad who decides to take his son Michael (Brian Bonsall) -- working his way to Eagle Scout -- on a camping trip. Poor dad is well-meaning, but fumbles his way through a series of mishaps.
Telling Secrets
Director of Photography
Through a series of elaborate schemes, a wealthy woman arranges for the murder of her husband's mistress and then takes steps so that the crime won't be traced back to her. The detective investigating the murder soon realizes her role in it, and sets out to find a way to pin the murder on her.
Day-O: Um Amigo de Infância
Director of Photography
Grace, aos 5 anos, cria um amigo imaginário, pois seus pais só dão atenção ao novo bebê, Tony. Agora aos 35, seu amigo exclusivo reaparece para ajudá-la.
Stompin' at the Savoy
Director of Photography
As the Harlem Renaissance flourishes in jazzy New York City, Pauline, Esther and Alice struggle to survive. By day, they toil at dreary jobs, dreaming of stardom, riches and happiness. By night, they dance their troubles away at the famous Savoy Ballroom. But when World War II appears on the horizon, the girls find their fortunes unfolding too unevenly to reconcile, and they inevitably begin to drift apart.
Broadway Bound
Director of Photography
Eugene and Stanley Jerome try to break into show biz as comedy writers while their parents' marriage ends.
Bed of Lies
Director of Photography
Dramatization of the true-life story of a woman who fights for custody of her children while awaiting trial for the murder of her husband, who happens to have been the son of the powerful ex-governor of Texas.
Appearances
Director of Photography
A drama centering on the joys, conflicts, and crises on a middle-class family and on its ex-football star father's efforts to keep it on track and intact despite the death of a child and the strain between his wife and father.
Operação Cupido 3
Director of Photography
Terceiro filme da série, que tinham Mills no papel das duas gêmeas. Agora, como governanta de trigêmeas cujo pai está noivo de uma mulher muito chata.
As Confusões de um Sedutor
Director of Photography
Hard-drinking novelist Zach Hutton spirals out of control after his wife and mistress both leave him. Alone and crippled by a bad case of writer's block, Zach slips in and out of casual relationships and one-night stands, while his drinking becomes more and more severe. With the help of a bartender and his therapist, Zach confronts his demons — women and alcohol.
Davy Crockett: O Herói das Montanhas
Director of Photography
Johnny Cash e Tim Dunigan interpretam Davy Crockett. Crockett e Andrew Jackson, agora velhos, compartilham suas memórias (e diferenças) sobre um levante indígena que eles derrubaram 25 anos antes.
Dinheiro Sangrento
Director of Photography
Eager to find his brother's murderer, Clinton enlists the aid of Nadine, an expensive call girl. Together they get sucked into a plot to smuggle guns to the Contra forces in Nicaragua.
Billionaire Boys Club
Director of Photography
The Billionaire Boys Club is based on the true story of Joe Hunt (Nelson), a shady investor who built an empire on B.S. back in the early '80s. Known as the BBC, the story involves a couple of guys recruited into Hunt's company on the promise of making millions. However, every time Hunt's lapdogs think his boss has used his cleverness to make them filthy rich, they instead find themselves with financial losses. Trying to recoup a mounting pile of debt made from giant b.s. deals, the ruthless Hunt involves select members of the BBC to aid in the worst of crimes to get what they want. But a few, scared of how far Hunt will go, try to stop Hunt's brutal reign of terror possibly before real damage begins.
Evil Town
Director of Photography
A mad scientist seeks eternal youth by developing a drug derived from human pituitary glands, aided by the local townsfolk, who help abduct visitors to their town for his experiments.
Um Verão Muito Louco
Cameraman
Hoops McCann (John Cusack) é o filho de um craque do basquete, mas após se formar no colegial só sonha ser um bom cartunista e em escrever e ilustrar uma história de amor. Além disto deseja entrar na escola de arte. Para ajudá-lo a encontrar seu objetivo George Calamari (Joel Murray), um amigo, o convida para passar o verão em na ilha de Nantucket. Na viagem eles se metem em confusões quando salvam Cassandra Eldrich (Demi Moore) de um bando de motoqueiros. Na ilha Hoops e George, juntamente com os amigos de George, tentam ajudar Cassandra, pois ela precisa pagar três mil dólares da hipoteca da casa do seu avô em uma semana, sendo que se não conseguir a casa irá para os Beckersted, uma gananciosa família que pretende despejar pessoas para construir no lugar um restaurante de luxo.
Um Verão Muito Louco
Director of Photography
Hoops McCann (John Cusack) é o filho de um craque do basquete, mas após se formar no colegial só sonha ser um bom cartunista e em escrever e ilustrar uma história de amor. Além disto deseja entrar na escola de arte. Para ajudá-lo a encontrar seu objetivo George Calamari (Joel Murray), um amigo, o convida para passar o verão em na ilha de Nantucket. Na viagem eles se metem em confusões quando salvam Cassandra Eldrich (Demi Moore) de um bando de motoqueiros. Na ilha Hoops e George, juntamente com os amigos de George, tentam ajudar Cassandra, pois ela precisa pagar três mil dólares da hipoteca da casa do seu avô em uma semana, sendo que se não conseguir a casa irá para os Beckersted, uma gananciosa família que pretende despejar pessoas para construir no lugar um restaurante de luxo.
Triplecross
Director of Photography
Three cops become instant millionaires after saving a rich crime victim. They retire from the force and use their money to become flamboyant private detectives. They get involved in cases involving the death of an artist, underworld figures, blackmail and a fix on baseball games.
As Damas de Beverly Hills
Director of Photography
A bordello catering to rich and wealthy clients, run by Lil Hutton experiences a series of crises as one girl ends up pregnant, and another dead. As a subplot, a young woman, Julie Taylor, makes a trip to LA to surprise a friend, but never finds her. Julie is mugged, and seeks help from Lil Hutton. She sees how much the prostitutes are making, and is tempted into the lifestyle. On her first "job" is hired by a rich father for his 18-year old virgin son as a birthday gift, and they fall in love. But the relationship comes to a quick end as soon as the son learns she is a "whore"; Julie breaks down and runs off after realizing prostitution is a cold and loveless occupation that cannot fulfill her emotional emptiness.
Ewoks:  A Batalha de Endor
Director of Photography
Em A Batalha de Endor, um exército de Marauders, liderados pelo Rei Terak e a bruxa Charal, ataca a vida dos Ewoks. Cindel e Wicket, escapam floresta a dentro e lá encontram Teek e Noa. Eles precisam ficar amigos de Noa, para aliarem-se na tentativa de derrotar os Marauders.
Minha Vida é um Desastre
Director of Photography
Após ser deixado pela namorada, que queria alguém popular, bonito e com um carro moderno, Lane Myer (John Cusack) tentar suicidar-se. Entretanto, o jovem conhece a francesa Monique (Diane Franklin), por quem se apaixona. Ele, então, decide acertar as contas com Roy (Aaron Dozier), atual namorado de sua ex, e reconquistar sua honra.
Silence of the Heart
Director of Photography
A mother going through a painful, protracted divorce realizes too late the effect it's having on her troubled son.
Cama Ardente
Director of Photography
Uma esposa violentamente abusada cansa de apanhar do marido. Todo lugar em que ela procura ajuda, ninguém pode faezr muito por ela. Após ser estuprada por ele, uma noite, ela coloca fogo na cama enquanto ele dorme. Baseado em uma história real.
I Married a Centerfold
Director of Photography
Tenacious young engineer flips over the centerfold model he spots on television and embarks on a romantic adventure on a bet with his buddies.
Getting Physical
Director of Photography
The world of female bodybuilding provides the backdrop for this tale of an aspiring young actress who initially becomes interested in the sport as a means of self-defense following a physical attack by two men, but then finds that while concentrating on building up her body her relationship with her parents, with whom she is living, and her new-found boyfriend, a young cop, is breaking down. Several noted bodybuilders and iron-pumpers, male and female, put in appearances to give this production an added authenticity.
When She Says No
Director of Photography
After divorced college professor Rose Michaels invites three of her male colleagues to her room during a teacher's convention, she later accuses them of rape, but the men say otherwise.
Hobson's Choice
Director of Photography
Daughter of the owner of a shoe store rebels against her father by marrying one of his employees.
Quarterback Princess
Director of Photography
The Maida family has moved to Oregon, and daughter Tami wants to play quarterback for the high school football team. There's just one problem. She's a girl. With everyone from the coach to her next door neighbor against her, she's out to prove that not only can she can play football, but she can win the state championship. (Based on a true story)
Night Partners
Director of Photography
Elizabeth and Lauren are two Bakersfield housewives who volunteer to help the local police by working with crime victims to help catch criminals.
Baby Sister
Director of Photography
Sultry college dropout Annie Burroughs moves in with her older sister Marsha and proceeds to break up the relationship between Marsha and her live-in boyfriend David Mitchell so Annie can begin a sensuous love affair and have David all for herself.
Not Just Another Affair
Director of Photography
A lady marine biologist, determined to save herself until marriage, meets a handsome attorney who is not used to being rejected sexually, and it becomes a battle of wills as to who will emerge the winner.
In the Custody of Strangers
Director of Photography
A teenage delinquent who goes on a drunken joyride is left in jail overnight by his parents in the hope that he might learn a lesson from it. But events follow which result in the boy spending far longer behind bars than anyone had foreseen.
Portrait of a Showgirl
Director of Photography
The story of three Las Vegas showgirls, each at a different stage in her career.
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
Director of Photography
Biography of the former first lady, focusing on her years as a photojournalist and leading up to her marriage to John F. Kennedy and their moving into the White House.
Golden Gate
Director of Photography
A venerable San Francisco publishing family becomes embroiled in a bitter power struggle between the iron-fisted, but ailing, patriarch's son and a ruthless businessman who tries for a takeover.
Fly Away Home
Director of Photography
Ambitious pilot to a prospective series revolving around a combat cameraman in Vietnam. Carl Danton is in Saigon on assignment at the start of the 1968 Tet offensive with a cynical boss in the local bureau chief. His love interest is a Vietnamese doctor whose brother happens to be a leader in the Viet Cong and whose influential parents are involved in high-level corruption.
Midnight Lace
Director of Photography
A TV reporter is mercilessly stalked by a mysterious assassin in this remake of the 1960 Doris Day thriller.
Nasce um Cantor
Director of Photography
Jess Robin dreams of a career in popular music, but his father, Cantor Rabinovitch, forbids it, insisting Jess live as a traditional Jew and inherit his position at the synagogue. With the help of friend and professional musician Bubba, Jess gets a chance to go to Los Angeles and have famous singer Keith Lennox record one of his songs. Defying both his father and his wife, Jess leaves New York to pursue his dreams.
Em Algum Lugar do Passado
Director of Photography
Na noite de estreia de sua peça, um jovem escritor se depara com uma senhora que misteriosamente pede para ele voltar para ela. Após alguns anos, ele descobre que ela foi uma conceituada atriz do início do século. Obcecado, ele decide viajar no tempo usando a hipnose para encontrá-la
Último Round
Director of Photography
Lighthearted tale of a 10-year-old girl who, when her boxer father dies, strikes up a relationship with a struggling fighter who was his sparring partner and takes on the job of managing him from obscurity to the championship.
Love for Rent
Director of Photography
Two small-town sisters go to Hollywood and find themselves seduced by the glamor of the big time and big money as high-priced professional escorts.
Muppets: O Filme
Director of Photography
Saiba como foi a ascensão dos Muppets à fama e à fortuna e como tudo pode ir por água abaixo quando Caco cai nas garras do Doutor Hopper, um vilão que quer promover sua rede de fast-food.
The Second Coming of Suzanne
Director of Photography
Jared Martin plays an aspiring film maker obsessed with the idea of Christ as a woman, and tries to film his vision with Sondra Locke as his subject. 'Based' on a song by Leonard Cohen.
Homebodies
Director of Photography
When a quiet group of pensioners learn that their homes are to be torn down to make way for a block of flats, they decide to take action. What starts as an attempt to discourage the developers soon escalates into wholesale murder of both the developers and the construction workers.
Os Gritos de Blácula
Director of Photography
Um praticante de vodu ressuscita Blacula, mas acaba virando seu escravo. Formando um exército sedento por sangue, Blacula começa a ser perseguido por Justin Carter, um policial obcecado por ocultismo.
Trick Baby
Director of Photography
Two Philadelphia con men try to evade gangsters they have conned and cops who are trying to put them in jail.
Werewolves on Wheels
Director of Photography
A biker gang visits a monastery where they encounter black-robed monks engaged in worshipping Satan. When the monks try to persuade one of the female bikers, Helen, to become a satanic sacrifice the bikers smash up the monastery and leave. The monks have the last laugh, though, as Helen, as a result of the satanic rituals, is now possessed and at night changes into a werewolf, with dire results for the biker gang.
Jud
Director of Photography
A Vietnam vet, Jud Carney. returns to Los Angeles at Christmas time, finds out it's not how he thought it was going to be. When Jud discovers his fiancee has left him, he moves into a boarding house peopled with "types." Flashback memories of the war and the suicide of fellow house resident, reduce Jud to a broken and bitter man.
Bartleby
Director of Photography
Bartleby, an enigmatic man who calmly refuses to carry out his duties, is introduced in this period dramatization of Melville’s haunting story as a scrivener in a 1969 film production of Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation.
The Lottery
Director of Photography
Every year, on June 27th, in a small village in New England, inhabited by no more than 300 people, a lottery is held in which a family is chosen as part of a ritual to ensure a good harvest.
The Lady, or the Tiger?
Director of Photography
A visually experimental adaptation of the classic Frank Stockton short story.