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“Cinema Needs Good Images”: An Interview with Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond

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Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC was given the “ Pierre Angénieux Excellens in Cinematography”  award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. It was a fitting tribute to the 83-year-old director of photography, who chronicled the events of the 1956 Hungarian revolution before leaving his country soon afterwards. In 1962 he became a naturalized citizen of the United States, settling in Los Angeles. During the ’70s Zsigmond established himself as one of the world’s great cinematographers, working on Robert Altman’s McCabe & Mrs. Miller  and  The Long Goodbye , John Boorman’s Deliverance , and Steven Spielberg’s  The Sugarland Express  and Close Encounters of the Third Kind , for which he won an Academy Award. He also worked with Michael Cimino on  The Deer Hunter  and  Heaven’s Gate . He had multiple collaborations with Brian De Palma:  Obsession ,  Blow Out ,  Bonfire of the Vanities and most recently  The Black Dahlia . Zsigmond also shot three films with Woody Allen:  Melinda and Melind