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	Fade to Black: Janusz Kaminski, Cinematographer
		Janusz Kaminski, finally a dad at 45, is managing just fine with his two-week-old (at press time) twins, Bruce and Helena, though he says, “All they want to do is eat and sleep right now.” Speaking of which, Helena drains a bottle offered by Kaminski and falls asleep while her dad discusses his beloved craft.
		Kaminski is two weeks away from commencing color-timing sessions for Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds, and a few months away from starting production on Spielberg's next project, still untitled (at press time), about the terrorist attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
		Kaminski says all this with what he calls “total respect” for the digital arts, and even heaps effusive praise on a 2002 film called Edi, shot and color-timed digitally by his Polish countrymen, director Piotr Trzaskalski and DP Krzysztof Ptak.
	preview.millimeter.com /mag/video_fade_black_38 (629 words)

	ICG Magazine -The Hunt For Black September
		Kaminski used a bleach bypass process on the negative in scenes where he wanted a substantially harsher look, including the opening scene at the Olympics and when Avner is having flashbacks.
		Kaminski explains that it’s a story about hunting humans, so the camera is almost always moving, motivated by the characters and what is happening in the scene.
		Kaminski describes the rendering of colors as though he were a painter talking about the palette he chose to create a work of art.
	www.cameraguild.com /magazine/0602/stoo.htm (1973 words)

	LOST SOULS - Production Notes...CinemaReview.com....Movie Reviews, Movie Contents, Moviegoer Opinions and Much More!
		So when it came time to direct his first film, Kaminski was drawn to the nuances of psychologically realistic horror, inspired by such gothic-tinged film classics as Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby.
		Kaminski found a story he felt particularly worth telling in Pierce Gardner's dark, questioning, suspense-laden script.
		When Kaminski became interested in the script, Ryan and Sadowsky felt he understood the underlying subtext: how in a society where God is increasingly difficult to find, it is far easier to see the work of the Devil.
	www.cinemareview.com /production.asp?prodid=1113 (874 words)

	Classic-Horror Review of Lost Souls (2000)
		Kaminski has stated that this ambiguity is one of the primary things he tried to achieve.
		Kaminski's direction is remarkable, and in addition to telling a tight story, many ancillary images will stick in your mind-all of them integral to the overall arc.
		Kaminski obviously knew this, anticipated possible criticisms, and went to great and successful pains to ensure that Lost Souls incorporates the necessary stereotypes in a novel, moving way.
	classic-horror.com /reviews/lostsouls2000.shtml (881 words)

	LOST SOULS - DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Janusz Kaminski, Spielberg's nineties-era cinematographer, knows from pretty pictures, but here his chiaroscuro images (via cameraman Mauro Fiore) communicate nothing save for talent, and therefore end up looking garish.
		Kaminski professes within the contents of Lost Souls' DVD affection for Roman Polanski's psychological thrillers (The Tenant, Rosemary's Baby), and that evocation defends, if not justifies, the film's wary pace.
		Kaminski and Fiore contribute biographical commentary to the feature and ten deleted scenes (a handful of which are alternate edits of passages that did make it into the final cut).
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/lostsouls.htm (610 words)

	Janusz Kaminski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Janusz Kaminski has a brother for 5-year-old Oscar.
		Kaminski was 21 when he arrived in Chicago in 1981 as a Polish immigrant.
		Asked whether he knew when Kaminski was a student that he was a future star, Celander laughed.
	jaehakim.com /articles/film/features/jan.htm (275 words)

	American Cinematographer: Catch Me If You Can
		Kaminski: Leo is 27, and he portrays a character that starts out at age 16, so most of our testing was concerned with how to photograph him to make him look younger.
		Janusz is very specific with his sources and their direction, and his idea of flatness doesn’t mean he’s filling in light from every angle.
		When Janusz uses hard light in his sources like that, or one soft source with no fill on the other side, he calls it ‘flat,’ but it’s actually very rich because you feel the falloff of light on the faces.
	www.theasc.com /magazine/jan03/karma/index.html (1143 words)

	Cameron Crowe - Eyes & Ears - Books
		The young Kaminski had barely unpacked from the long shoot before he found himself on the awards circuit, side-by-side with Spielberg, hearing the word ''masterpiece'' with intoxicating regularity.
		Along the way, Kaminski also received an Academy Award for his cinematography in ''Schindler's List.'' Publicly, he often deflected the pressures of enormous early success with self-deprecating jokes: ''They just gave me the award because it was in fl and white!'' Privately, he sometimes wondered if it had all been a fluke.
		Kaminski barreled forward with a cheerful intensity, shooting, among other features, ''How to Make an American Quilt'' and my film ''Jerry Maguire.'' His fascination was less bravura photographic opportunities than character studies.
	www.cameroncrowe.com /eyes_ears/articles/crowe_jrl_lighting.html (1475 words)

	True Luminaries: Janusz Kaminski - page 4
		Kaminski augmented the picture's look by combining Technicolor's ENR process with a careful application of flashing and smoke.
		In assessing Kaminski's ability to handle a wide range of photographic challenges, Spielberg has noted, "As a cinematographer, Janusz is not 'one size fits all' he's much more of a chameleon.
		To keep up with Spielberg's rapid pace, Kaminski and his crew devised a series of preconceived lighting looks that could be deployed quickly and efficiently.
	www.theasc.com /magazine/jun98/lumin/pg4.htm (567 words)

	Steven Spielberg and Catch Me If You Can and Janusz Kaminski and Frank Abagnale and flatbed editing and kodak 5277 and ...
		According to Spielberg's longtime DP Janusz Kaminski, even the film's romantic, 1960s color scheme was largely an in-camera affair, built around a palette of colors conceived by costume designer Mary Zophres (known for her work on recent Coen brothers films).
		Kaminski also says that while Catch Me was a very hard film in terms of the schedule, it was also refreshing to work on a project where real-world color and light are captured in-camera and remain in the finished product.
		I had lengthy talks with Janusz about how to create the look of the '60s, and for once, we were not inventing a world like we did with A.I. and Minority Report, both of which required extensive RandD work to figure out what the future might look like.
	digitalcontentproducer.com /digitalfilm/video_spielberg_goes_retro (2519 words)

	Amazon.ca: Lost Souls (Widescreen): DVD: Janusz Kaminski,Winona Ryder,Ben Chaplin,Sarah Wynter,Philip Baker Hall,Elias ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Fussy in his visual approach, Kaminski toys with the film stock and camera techniques until it has the hues and angles of a pretentious car commercial.
		Kaminski is surely to blame for the wooden performances, a cinematographer who "just wants to direct" but isn't really qualified.
		This is Kaminski's only movie so far as a director, and his ability to create a terrifying atmosphere without reliance on special effects, may remind you of M. Night Shyamalan.
	www.amazon.ca /Lost-Souls-Widescreen-Winona-Ryder/dp/B000056PNK (1432 words)

	Janusz Kaminski (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		From a list of nine films that are completely unrecognizable, then jumping to Shindler's List, Kaminski became one of the defining cinematographers of the last ten years.
		There are two interviews here and here on Lost Souls and Kaminski.
		Kaminski was one of his brilliant moves, I will say that.
	www.wordsfromhere.com.cob-web.org:8888 /janusz.html (294 words)

	Janusz Kaminski (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Kaminski came to America from his native Poland in the 1980s.
		Kaminski's collaboration with Spielberg on SAVING PRIVATE RYAN included discovering different visual textures with an imaginative mix of camera films, lab processes and specialized techniques, such as "deconstruction of the slickness that you usually get with modern lenses" Ð in Spielberg's words.
		Kaminski, who made completed his directorial debut for New Line Cinemas -- the supernatural thriller, LOST SOULS (2000) -- said he hopes to now switch between directing and being a director of photography.
	www.theoscarsite.com.cob-web.org:8888 /whoswho7/kaminski_j.htm (447 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Lost Souls" review (2000)
		Directed by former cinematographer Janusz Kaminski ("Schindler's List," "Saving Private Ryan"), it's no surprise the film has a unique visual signature of inventive, disorienting dutch angles, startling close-ups and an opulent, deep, crisp color palate with a layer of pigment stripped away, creating a slightly otherworldly atmosphere.
		What is a surprise is that Kaminski pays as much attention to personalities as he does to camera work.
		Suddenly Kaminski cuts ahead to our heroes casually sipping coffee as if nothing had happened and they hadn't just discovered Chaplin's seemingly inevitable transformation is only a few hours away.
	www.splicedonline.com /00reviews/lostsouls.html (619 words)

	SpielbergFilms.com - Munich - Articles - Production Notes Page 3
		For example, Kaminski points out that for the scenes in Cyprus he emphasizes more vibrant, sun-baked yellow tones, while in Athens the color palette veers towards Aegean blues, and then in Paris, the palette becomes much softer with an ambience of rainy skies.
		For the opening sequence, Kaminski focused on a searing, unadorned realism—“it’s a little bit flat, almost void of color,” he explains—but for the flashbacks he used a process known as “skip bleach” (most recently seen in the contemporary war film Jarhead) which gives a very harsh, grainy, color-saturated appearance to the scenes.
		Kaminski also drew inspiration from his collaboration with the rest of the design team.
	www.spielbergfilms.com /munichprodnotes3.html (3203 words)

	Science Fiction Movie and TV Reviews
		Lost Souls, the directorial debut of Oscar-winning cinematographer Janusz Kaminski (Saving Private Ryan), turns up in theaters just in time for Halloween, after having been delayed more than a year to move it out of the line of fire of similarly themed movies End of Days and Stigmata.
		Kaminski knows how to evoke mood and dread through images, and his film is very handsome.
		Shot in sepia tones and the desaturated color of Ryan, it is dense with fog, back-lighting, slow motion, odd angles and extreme close-ups.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue182/screen.html (626 words)

	Going with the Grain
		Kaminski says, “Tom Cruise is not always looking as beautiful as he would, say, in Vanilla Sky.
		Kaminski and Devlin often arrived at their lighting solutions through considerable testing; one key to Spielberg and crew's legendary efficiency is the substantial prep time they are allotted — 16 weeks in the case of Minority Report.
		But as a director of photography, Kaminski prefers to stick with Spielberg, whose working methods, choice of material, and visual experimentation he finds to be ideal.
	livedesignonline.com /mag/lighting_going_grain/index.html (1883 words)

	IMDb Name Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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	www.imdb.com /Name?Kaminski,+Janusz (85 words)

	MAURO FIORE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Career: 'Fiore and Janusz Kaminski began their association with a simple phone call.
		Following film school, Kaminski had relocated to California to attend the American Film Institute and - as fate would have it - began working as a gaffer for B-movie producer Roger Corman.
		As Kaminski ascended to his position as Steven Spielberg's director of photography, Fiore proceeded to assist him as gaffer and second-unit cinematographer.
	www.cinematographers.nl /PaginasDoPh/fiore.htm (743 words)

	About the Filmmakers: Janusz Kaminski (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		JANUSZ KAMINSKI (Director of Photography) won an Academy Award®, as well as a BAFTA Award, for his fl-and-white cinematography for Steven Spielberg's
		He was also honored by both the New York and Los Angeles Film Critics for his work on the film.
		A native of Poland, Kaminski came to the United States in 1981.
	www.rzm.com.cob-web.org:8888 /pvt.ryan/production/filmmakers/kaminski.html (155 words)

	Janusz Kaminski - SpielbergFilms.com Forum
		If Spielberg and Kaminski are trying to establish that mood with these films, then they have succeeded admirably.
		But then, maybe that's another reason his films seem to be lacking something in the last few years: a lack of the fruitful soul that once inhabitated his films.
		For me, Kaminski is probably the person most responsible for breathing new life in Spielberg's career for the past decade (after those Always/Hook dark days).
	www.spielbergfilms.com /forum/showthread.php?p=18743 (917 words)

	Janusz Kaminski
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		After extensive studies in his native Poland and the USA (concluding with a prestigious stay at the American Film Institute as a cinematography fellow), Kaminski carved a modest niche in feature films in second unit work.
		Two of his credits were in films produced by Roger Corman, who promoted Kaminski to director of photography for "The Terror Within II" (1991).
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/detail/id/189062 (587 words)

	Janusz Kaminski: Cinephiles Movie Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Movie reviews of director Janusz Kaminski in current releases.
		For selected Janusz Kaminski movies, we offer three different types of movie reviews: a short movie review, an in-depth movie review which analyses the film, and a third movie review which compares the movie in question with others in the genre.
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	www.cinephiles.net /pages/directors/janusz_kaminski.html (102 words)

	Janusz Kaminski (I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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	JoBlo reviews the movie "Lost Souls"
		Winona Ryder, I could've done without, but kudos to Chaplin for convincing me of the possibility of his dilemma.
		I look forward to seeing what director Janusz Kaminski will take on next.
		Not a film that will win over the MTV generation, but definitely a decent creepy thriller that'll keep you on your toes while cuddled under a blanket, late at night, all by yourself.
	www.joblo.com /lostsouls.htm (2697 words)

	Greenwich Village Gazette: Movie Review: Lost Souls, Directed by Janusz Kaminski, Starring Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, ...
		Most of the movie is dedicated to Maya convincing Peter that what's going to happen is going to happen, with the support of some nice special effects by Jay Riddle and company.
		Janusz Kaminski has been one of the top cinematographers in Hollywood for years and he and his partner in crime Mauro Fiore have done six films six films together, including Steven Speilberg's last two.
		They should go back to being cameramen or try do find a decent script.
	www.gvny.com /movies/lost_souls/index.html (445 words)

	Janusz Kaminski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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	KMC Forums - How do Janusz Kaminski & Gordon Willis compare?
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	Amazon.com: Lost Souls: DVD: Winona Ryder,Ben Chaplin,Sarah Wynter,Philip Baker Hall,John Hurt,Elias Koteas,Brian ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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