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...Willis?? cinematography “made everybody very nervous” at the time, he said, though the passing decades have obscured his innovations...
Willis often spoke critically of the directors he had worked with, though Thorburn mentioned Willis?? dictum that “why you do something in a movie is more important than how you do it,” a humble remark for a cinematographer, who typically concentrates on how to shoot something and leaves the “why” to the director...
...into a masterpiece of monochromaticism, gave The Godfather movies their distinctive yellow-and-mahogany palette and immortalized Harvard Law School in The Paper Chase, will be at the Brattle to discuss his career with MIT literature and film professor Paul Thorburn. Prior to the discussion, the Brattle will screen Willis?? favorite film from his career. What might it be? All the President’s Men? Annie Hall? Nope, it’ll be a new 35mm print of Klute, a forgotten 1971 Jane Fonda-Donald Sutherland crime thriller that won Fonda an Oscar for her role...
...titular Hart is actually Lieutenant Hart (Colin Farrell), an American soldier taken prisoner by the Germans near the end of World War II. His POW camp is ruled by an unintentionally humorous German colonel and Willis?? Col. McNamara. Shortly after Hart begins his stay at the camp, the arrival of two black pilots creates racial tension among the inmates of the camp. The uneasiness results in two deaths and a court-martial trial, in which Hart is called upon to represent and defend one of the black...
...impressive performance as the son of a senator who is shielded from the front line but not from confrontational situations in the POW camp. Farrell, as well as Marcel Iures (who plays German Col. Wilhelm Visser) and Terrence Howard (who plays Hart’s client), all upstage Willis?? colonel. In fairness to Willis, however, his character is much less dynamic than his German counterpart or his subordinates. While these other three characters each get the chance to glorify their position with a speech, Willis never utters more than a few lines, all delivered in the same manner...