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Stanley Cortez
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Stanley Cortez

American cinematographer
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    …the eerie, atmospheric cinematography of Stanley Cortez. At its centre is an anomalously peaceful scene in which the children travel by boat down a nighttime river. It is filmed with a piercingly lovely fairy-tale quality that heightens the film’s already larger-than-life battle of innocence versus evil. Former silent-screen star Lillian…

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    …the eerie, atmospheric cinematography of Stanley Cortez. At its centre is an anomalously peaceful scene in which the children travel by boat down a nighttime river. It is filmed with a piercingly lovely fairy-tale quality that heightens the film’s already larger-than-life battle of innocence versus evil. Former silent-screen star Lillian…

    Read More