4 - Sunday, April 24, 1988 - North Shore News \ strictly personal ® ° 7 THE TRICK, when confronting a Master, is to try to pump him as hard as he can be pumped before he poes away. luse the word Master" ad- visedly. Sven Nykvist has been: repeatedly voted the best cinematographer in the world by ' his fellow cameramen. His credits include films such as Pretty Baby and The Unbearable ; Lightness of Being, but it is as the cameraman who shot all of Ingmar Bergman’s films that he's probably best-known. Films like Wild, Strawberries, Cries and Whispers, Winter Light and Virgin Spring. J i America, called The Sacrifice. it was directed by the Russian direc- tor Andrei Tarkovsky, who died of cancer before the film could be released commercially. : The film! has a completly dif- ferent pacé than the sort of flicks .” we get on'this continent. That is, jt moves along as slowly asa wave?’ coming ‘in from far out at sea., The inovement seems languid but as tpe rocks of the land/ap- pear, the motion of the wave / ce } 7 ~ : . . . Nyxvist had been instructed by the .. unpredictable Russian director fo have only one camera on hand. Why /— God knows. The master cinematographer had in fact defi ied his. boss and 7 camera broke down. The director ‘‘Started almost to crys” * Nykvist recalls. - \ There was no money at the time to build another house. This was Sweden, not Hollywood. A pro- ducer finally went to Japan to raise moncy. Another house was built, and the same amazing sequence was shot in one take, meaning that we: are there for the whole event. No , cheating by shooting from dif- ferent angles. Nykvist had been instructed by the unpredictable Russian director ° to have only one camera on hand. » Why — God knows. The master cinematographer had in fact defied his boss and secretly stashed an cx- | tra camera nearby, but once the main camera went the dream of shooting the sequence in a single stroke was lost." / On the second shooting, two cameras were used. Even genius aaa — is Why shy tues ant of three Knylish-speaking |. - Canadians want [os their chitdren to [": fearn French? ff ‘Yo imprese their carcer\: apitions and broaden their Po horisous. : | HOLLYBURN ELEMENTARY is now accepting kindergarten . registration Kindergarten Open Houses | : } Parent Orientation Meeting | i 7-8 pm May 12, Hollyburn Library, | 1329 Duchess Ave. West Vancouver Inquiries 922-9348 secretly stashed an extra camera; nearby, but once “the main camera went the e/dregin of shooting the sequence ina single stroke was lost.’ Russians can learn: If you get a chance to see. The Sacrifice, by all means do so! 11 is, These are considered “art fi ims for the most part, and it is irud “, they represent the cinematic their highest point. The sad, perennial reality} oft ‘a tough time competing’ economically with so-cilled “‘scientifi ic”? Hollywosd-styl _ Movie: “making, i he, giving the Towest | common denominato _ the’ surveys say * yeustomer : "wants. i “At 65'ycars of's age and atic peak oft his creative pow i ries of ‘Public tastes in North America . “He is tod much in deriand that: he can pick and choose When | had my; chance. to, talk.to Bi rifle story about the * ” ting of a'famouis/ European movie, that of couy se did not Ot get Widely distributed 4a N : oA 24-YEA OL Vancouver man * "was sentenced ‘Wednesday i in North * Vancouver/ provincial court to seven days in jail and fined $300 _ after lie /pleaded guilty to. ‘driving ' while prohibited... ‘Kelvin: ‘Dave. Harvey - was origi- nally charged | in connection with a! 1 . builds with shocking swiftness to a mo Sven ns : him he | , , Y FSS through the reflections of . searing fame in puddles and even” Ls crescendo — in this case, an. cight-minute sequence at the very ‘end of the movie, which has * become something of a legendary marketplace i is'that such film: alms have : event in the history of filmmaking. e Russian director had been | dreaming | of this scene for 10 years: ‘He had built an incredibly “intricate, baroque story structure ‘ to get the viewer to the final mo- ments, which are possibly the |. finest moments of movic- making ever. . A house is consumed i in ‘flames _ while the cast of the movie act out =a powerful ritual of madness in the ., to understand the story. than to,do water-logged fields around the * ‘building. . Most of the. fire is ‘not ‘shown on’ écreen, yet we can follow its prog- ‘ in the eyes of the. actors. When w * finally do see the fire it bursts... i upon our keyed-up senses ike a an _- Apocalypse. i _ Halfway through the fire, tg, well,.a masterpiece. And apart | from Tarkovsky’s genius, it was thanks largely to the genius of 5 Sven Nyk‘vist that it is. {t was therefore a gratifying _ ‘surprise, for a writer, to discover’ “that the Master nowadays con- *; > siders himself “a slave to the script.’ Hei is also a great believer, after : having; ‘captured on film some of | ° the greatest, visually tricky scenes , ever staged, in simplicity. He/also doesn’t buy the idea that . cinematographers --- even the catest — should have a lot of jom..' 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