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DIED. EDMUND M. DIGIULIO, 76, inventor of the Steadicam, a camera-stabilization system, and other innovations in cinematography; of congestive heart failure; in Malibu, Calif. He worked for many years with the director Stanley Kubrick, making possible the gliding camera work in films like The Shining. At the 2001 Oscars, he received a lifetime-achievement award for his technological advances...
...DIED. EDMUND M. DIGIULIO, 76, Oscar-winning film-technology pioneer; in Malibu, California. DiGiulio developed special equipment for director Stanley Kubrick's movies, including A Clockwork Orange and The Shining. His inventions included the Steadicam, a widely used camera-stabilization system. In 2002 he received a technological lifetime achievement Academy Award...
RUSSIAN ARK. The latest film from Russian director Alexander Sokurov uses 2,000 actors and thirty-five rooms of The Hermitage museum to bring 300 years of Russian history to life. Even more astonishingly, the film is presented in one single 95 minute, continuous, unedited, technologically and artistically miraculous SteadiCam shot. Critical awe—from Roger Ebert to the Village Voice (in which it appeared on five of six critics’ top-ten lists for 2002) —has followed wherever it goes. Russian Ark screens...
This philosophically significant innovation required considerable practical talent. Tilman Buttner, the Director of Photography, deserves much credit for the film’s visual success. Previously acclaimed for his work running after Lola for Tom Tykwer (in Run Lola Run), his 95 minutes of continuous Steadicam operation for Sokurov was an amazing feat of both artistic and athletic ability...
This could have been just the greatest, daftest, most elaborate stunt in movie history--a single, unbroken, 87-min. Steadicam shot that winds and pirouettes as it accompanies an unseen narrator and a 19th century French marquis (Sergei Dontsov) through 33 rooms of the State Hermitage Museum in an attempt both to give us a tour of the St. Petersburg palace's artistic treasures and to encapsulate three centuries of Russian history, of the Czars and commoners who lived, worked, danced, suffered and died in those sumptuous rooms and labyrinthine corridors--but because Alexander Sokurov is as much an artist...