Children of Men - The Cinematography of Emmanuel Lubezki

[pacochm]

I hope he wins the Oscar for The Tree of life, he deserves it!

[Kinor7]

Wait, why is this video fast forwarding? :S

[res3571]

I watched this movie about 3 times, same experience, AMAZING, and same question, why didn't win oscar, or with "The new world"?

[shauqhie]

what camera is Emmanuel holding?

[steliber]

@shauqhie looks like a ARRI D21

[priyeshxkb]

@shauqhie that`s not a camera but a viewfinder, the ARRI Viewfinder (not built anymore)

[indrancole3]

Underrated masterpiece. It will be understood in years to come.

[MrAntimoron]

This guy is up there with the best. Surely he'll win at least one oscar.

[atti97]

Alfonso Cuaron best movie. He directing the best Harry Potter movie.

[InfiniteStyleBlog]

I absolutely love the work Emmanuel Lubezki did on "Children Of Men." Simply amazing work.

[AyaxTelemonio]

el mejor director de fotografía de este planeta, un genio.

[carlo06792]

tienes razon el merece un oscar ya lo han nominado 4 veces

[magnator12]

somebody know who is the song played in ..in the house of the old men????

[carlo06792]

hes been nominated to the oscars in four times in sleepy hollow,the new word children of men and a little princess

[pepelitoto]

un genio el chivo lubezki

[bluraymen]

this is the best movie that i´m going to see in my whole life this one and Vanilla sky... Alfonso Cuarón You´re The Best!!!

[hipocampolanudo]

Vanilla sky is a remake of the Spanish movie Abre los ojos

[davebawx]

who cares...

[ivy1992]

wii Clive Owen <3

[Element7531]

what is the song?? what is the song in this video of like the opera or what ever?? what is it called?

[ehwhats]

I know the name not, but it's by John Taverner, a well known British orthodox christian composer

[badges666]

Fragments of a prayer, It's damned hard to find but is on the CD.

[saboner]

Emmanuel Lubezki and Alfonso Cuaron, two Mexicans making waves in Hollywood

[tbrais]

can't wwait for the tv show

[futbolusa]

this is one of the best movies ever made, never has anyone filmed something like they did in this movie. The people in charge of the oscars are fucking idiots for not awarding this movie an academy award.

[magid1020]

thanks for your responses guys, i was expecting ppl to bash me lol. So I think I got it now. I think. The director has a vision, and the DP, creates this vision. Right?

[magid1020]

thanks for your responses guys, i was expecting ppl to bash me lol. So I think I got it now. I think. The director has a vision, and the DP, creates this vision. Right?

[mcpoo212]

the director of photography(cinematographer) is responsible for the look of the film.. the lighting, camera movement, placement and the the film stock,lenses and filters. They also usually control the camera operators

the director is pretty much the all seeing one who looks upon this and gives his word. Some directors allow the DP alot of breathing room some don't. The director is in control of the whole process..through preproduction to post..not just the looks of the film(for DP)

[magid1020]

Here is something I dont understand. I thought directors where the ones that come up with these scenes. The long shot with no cuts, like in this one and all that shit. Same with oldboy in that corridor scene. Are you telling me that It wasnt that director who came up with it. Rather the Cinematographer that comes up with the ideas and scene. Someone help me out cause Im always lost between what the director does and what the cinematographer does? Can someone explain all this to me? Please?

[ayvern]

The director is liek a general coordinator and he or she directs the people in a scene. The cinematographer is chosen by the director once they agree on a style and from there the cinematographer is pretty much free to do whatever as long as the director agrees.

[ceruleansunset]

ayvern is correct!

director is the over-all creative manager of the production one who executes/interprets the script into scenes while a cinematographer is the one focused on the technical aspects such as how the lighting and camera works :D

[intrepidscribe]

A cinematographer's primary responsibility is the "look" of a film. A director is tasked with guiding the artistic vision of the film as a whole. Very basically, a director reads a script and "the vision" is born. Every position on the cast and crew exists to translate that vision from the director's head onto film. As far as who comes up with the shots on set, some directors like to do there own composition, others don't. But the light and shadows is all the DP.

[tabber87]

*Through Douglas Milsome.

[tabber87]

He would be slightly more impressive if Kubrick hadn't done this 20 years ago.

[SDMagicMan]

crazy awesome.

[Flooredup2]

This guy knows what the fuck he's doin man. Beats the shit out of other cinematographers anyday.

[hybridowns]

the people on the motorcycle got owned :)

[ethosfilms]

My hero... Natural lighting? C'mon, that takes skillz, and ballz.

[farhanriax]

one of the best Cinematography i hv ever seen

[BlckComb]

This or the continuous-shot of the Oldboy corridor fight scene is the best filming I've ever seen.

[rockalbatross]

i totally agree. that corridor fight seen ruled. so does this.

[Rorton08]

Does any one know who performed the opera song you can hear in the background?

[uycheporq]

Its Rejoice from the oprah singer Juvedee Trefau

[ehwhats]

sorry, don't know the piece or performer, but the composer is John Taverner

[Noisefrombelow]

no way, best Cinematography ive ever seen in my life. do you know how hard it is to shoot a 10 minute scene?

[AmrVamp]

i don't think the cinematography of pan's labyrinth really deserves the oscar it won beating this cinematography of COM .

both are just beautiful , but i much prefer COM

[bigdaverotheroe]

Absolutely exemplary.

[shellsing3]

Totally mind blowing cinematography

[MrArmadillo]

why didn't this win the oscar?

[paulyname]

@MrArmadillo the guy is gonna be like charles chaplin, or somebody who is the best, but never wins an oscar

[BoyOnAString7]

come on now.. Children of Men and Pans Labrynth are two completely diffrent movies (both freaking awesome!) but, Children of Men in many ways is more inovative and unique (one shot scenes and what not)

[kirstie213]

This film so touching, possibly the best I've seen in a long time.

It's beautifully shot, with amazing action shots and it's so realistic.

I love this film, so much.

It always makes me cry, where Jaspar gets shot, and when the girl is walking out of the building with her baby.... :(

xxx

[zenmachinefilms]

Somehow this guy didn't win an Oscar for this amazing achievement.

[hanshotfirst1138]

In all fairness, Guillermo Navarro's cinematography for Pan's Labrynth was phenomenal work too.

[zenmachinefilms]

I felt as though what happened is that the art direction was so good in Pan's Labrynth, that it won for both Art Direction and Cinematography. Hear me out here -- it's because of the way Oscar voting goes. During the nominations cinematographers nominate cinematographers, just as composers nominate composers, etc. But in the final vote, the entire Academy votes -- hence, composers, actors, make-up artists, cinematographers, etc. all vote on everything.

[StatisticalSanity]

That film was so kickass. The 3-minute shot where the blood gets on the lens was incredible.

[StringBolt]

Visually, this movie is one of the best ever. But it still sucked.

[chemijazz]

Lubezki es uno de los grandes cinefotografos en la historia. Su trabajo es excepcional y muchos tratan de imitarle.

[DudeDiggler]

cool, the movie is spoiled for me.

[skualeno]

two years : (

[malickfan]

Chivo has been robbed two years in a row now. :(

[lamott2k]

The shots in this move were amazing. I had no idea walking in till watching this film that it would be like that. In the car scene I was viewing it then saying to myself "wait a min, they did this entire scene in one shot!" Awesome flick.

[Tkreft1128]

I dunno about calling it the next Citizen Kane -- but yes. Visually -- this movie is one of the best looking films I've ever seen. I think it may BE the best film I've ever seen.

Sadly -- there's all this stigma about the film being all liberally biased. People can't just sit back for 2 hours and escape. They have to over analyze a message that may or may NOT be there.

I just think this movie looked fucking amazing.

[CKapps]

You have to be on a bad trip of shrooms to say this movie was bad, this movie is all about about the art of cinima and filming and how it works and what it takes to make a good story. This movie was revolutionary, in years film schools will look on this film to see how a movie should be filmed. it has perfect contast, transistion, everything. this is the new citizens kane.

[rikardo1987]

El Chivo will get it next year

[thevoid99]

Lubezki aka "Chivo" is truly one of the best DPs ever. I love his work, especially in Malick's "The New World". He was robbed at the Oscars.