juvenilecinephile:

Watched Orson Welles’ The Immortal Story (Une Histoire Immortelle). It’s less than an hour long and was Welles’ first and last film in color.  It is gorgeous-looking as any thing he ever did as far as composition and framing, and the color transfer on the Criterion disc absolutely pops.

Naturally, I wanted to know who shot this for film for Orson Welles.  I found out it was by Belgian cinematographer Willy Kurant. The name rung a bell but I needed to check out his filmography.  

I was very pleased to find out Willy Kurant’s filmography as a cinematographer. 

He has shot the following (note this is an incomplete list of films):

• Masculin féminin 
• The Immortal Story
• The Deep (Unfinished Orson Welles film)
• Pink Floyd at Pompeii 
• A Grin Without a Cat 
• Harper Valley P.T.A.
• Les créatures
• Trans-Europ-Express
• Le départ
• The Killing of America 
• Tuff Turf 
• A Burning Hot Summer
• La Jalousie 
• Mama Dracula
• The Baby-Sitters Club 
• Under the Sun of Satan 
• Pootie Tang 

This man has worked with Jean-Luc Godard, Orson Welles, Philippe Garrel, Agnés Varda,  Chris Marker, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jerzy Skolimowski, Melanie Mayron, and Louis C.K. What a fucking life and career. 

Welles ought to have played Mycroft Holmes in something.