About Chris Doyle

Awesome chinese Doyle documentary

Super Insomniacs — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:31:17 +0000

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Super Insomniacs — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:10:45 +0000

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HERO by Zhang Yimou [2002]

Super Insomniacs — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:37:08 +0000

This is the movie that made Doyle the only star cinematographer in the world. Images we’ll never forget.

FALLEN ANGELS by Wong Kar Wai [1995]

Super Insomniacs — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:52:53 +0000

Not only the best movie ever made, but also the LAST movie ever made, Fallen Angels is simply, the end of cinema.

Trailer:

2046 by Wong Kar Wai [2004]

Super Insomniacs — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:55:50 +0000

Five years in the making. A 2-hour trailer for a movie we’ll never see.

“Past, present, and future blend into an exquisite whole in this sort-of-sequel to Wong’s great “In the Mood for Love,” about a writer and an enigmatic train. Filmed to perfection by the great Christopher Doyle and others.” —csmonitor.com

LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang [2003]

Super Insomniacs — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:57:54 +0000

DAYS OF BEING WILD by Wong Kar Wai [1991]

Super Insomniacs — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:11:12 +0000

“Wong Kar-wai’s 1991 film — his second feature and his first collaboration with his signature cinematographer Christopher Doyle — makes its belated Seattle theatrical debut. The late Hong Kong heartthrob Leslie Cheung is all narcissism and insolence as a lothario who seduces lonely nice girl Maggie Cheung and sneering, shallow showgirl Carina Lau, apparently out of boredom. There’s little passion in him apart from his desperation to find his real mother, whose identity his aging, alcoholic foster mom (a calloused and crafty Rebecca Pan) refuses to divulge. Set in the 1960s and shot on practically deserted locations, there isn’t much “story” to the impressionistic film, but the languorous atmosphere of longing, disconnection and emotional isolation is hypnotic. Doyle’s handheld camerawork is intimate and curious and his hazy colors radiate off the screen. The score is cocomposed of lush instrumental Hawaiian exotica and lounge music, but it’s the sounds of ticking clocks, echoing footsteps down empty hallways and alleys, and squeaky of windshield wipers in the rain that defines their empty lives and broken relationships. Andy Lau and Jackie Cheung co-star. (Sean Axmaker)”

seattlepi.com

MADE by Jon Favreau [2001]

Super Insomniacs — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:42:36 +0000

“But Favreau also makes creative use of New York City locations, many of them off the beaten track and all handsomely shot by Chris Doyle, and beefs up the supporting cast with seasoned performers who help anchor the light-as-air story. The film’s a trifle, but a beautifully crafted one.”

TVguide.com

THE QUIET AMERICAN by Phillip Noyce [2002]

Super Insomniacs — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:05:03 +0000

“Christopher Doyle’s breathtaking cinematography, which captures all that is both beautiful and oppressive about the Vietnamese landscape”

premier.com

THE WHITE COUNTESS by James Ivory [2005]

Super Insomniacs — Sat, 31 May 2008 14:42:27 +0000

Doyle keeps wasting his time and talent with souless hollywood movies. At least there’s a bar scene in this one.

“The White Countess moves with the stately speed of most Merchant/Ivory productions, which is to say too damn slow, but the film is snatched from the jaws of tedium by Doyle’s resplendently lush camerawork and Fiennes and Richardson’s spot-on performances, which echo the heartsick downward spirals of war-torn romances the cinematic world over.”

austinchronicle.com