“The White Satan” bought the purple carpet therapy on the sixtieth version of the Karlovy Differ Worldwide Movie Competition (KVIFF) on Sunday. Legendary cinematographer and three-time Oscar winner Robert Richardson obtained the Czech pageant’s highest honor, the Crystal Globe for excellent inventive contributions to world cinema, in its eightieth 12 months. And handing him the award was none apart from Hollywood legend Harvey Keitel.
Nicknamed “The White Satan” for his lengthy white hair and relentless pursuit of cinematic perfection, Richardson arrived on the stage of the Grand Corridor of Karlovy Differ’s Lodge Thermal to a giant ovation.
“I’m not an actor,” the cinematographer began off saying. He then lauded the love for the artwork of movie he has skilled on the town. “I look out into the streets right here, and I see so many individuals and so many right here inside this corridor, and there are such a lot of younger folks. What I feel this explicit award represents is a singular future, the longer term that all of us want and wish. I really like that this pageant opens the chance for seeing movies that we hardly ever see, and holding movies as [an] artwork [form].”
He shared this imaginative and prescient of the longer term the place extra smaller movies can journey around the globe, together with from such locations because the Czech Republic: “What I’m hoping for sooner or later sooner or later is that extra nations may be reached via streaming or no matter without charge for everybody to have the ability to see what we can not see and to see all of the work that a lot of you’ll do.”
Richardson additionally praised the KVIFF award and Keitel: “This can be a very particular reward … coming from a very particular man, Harvey Keitel, who’s, for my part, actually one of many best in cinema historical past.”
The cinematographer then shared an anecdote: “After I first noticed Imply Streets, everybody spoke a few must-see efficiency of Bob De Niro, and the film was over, and I used to be like ‘nice!’ … Time passes, I’m speaking in regards to the film, and the particular person I believed was Bob De Niro was Harvey Keitel. His efficiency was so commanding.”
As some within the viewers broke out into laughter, Richardson emphasised: “It’s to not say something about Bob’s efficiency – it’s sensible, and he’s additionally an excellent buddy.” Quipped Keitel: “Are you making an attempt to get me killed?!”
The actor had launched Richardson following a spotlight reel of his work. “I’m holding a chunk of paper with one thing to say upon it,” Keitel mentioned after the reel ended. “However seeing Bob’s work speaks for itself. We have now earlier than us one of many world’s best cinematographers. So, that’s all I’ve to say.” He then ripped up the paper and threw away its items.
Richardson obtained the KVIFF award on the world premiere of Czech filmmaker Jana Hojdová‘s Robert Richardson: The White Satan, a characteristic documentary devoted to the life and profession of the cinema icon. The entire crew joined the honoree on stage, with director Hojdová giving him a bracelet. Defined Richardson: “I’ve a convention – each time I begin a film, I’ve one bracelet, and I put on it for your entire film. … Once they come off, which means the movie’s gonna die.”
Afterward Sunday, the cinematographer will sit down in Karlovy Differ with THR’s Scott Feinberg to file an episode of the Awards Chatter podcast.
When KVIFF unveiled that Richardson would obtain the dignity, it emphasised that he’s “one of the revered cinematographers of the previous 4 a long time and one of many few folks alive to have obtained a greatest cinematography Oscar 3 times,” particularly for JFK, The Aviator and Hugo, KVIFF highlighted. “Richardson’s work has helped lend a particular environment to movies starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Foxx, and Margot Robbie.”
Richardson is a part of a star-studded lineup of honorees and friends at KVIFF’s double anniversary version. Different huge names who’ve already been honored this weekend are Dustin Hoffman, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jesse Eisenberg.
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