📽️ #LastFourWatched 📽️

🚏 MYSTERY STREET (1950) 🚏

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John Alton is one of my favorite Cinematographers because of his painterly use of extreme darkness to PAINT WITH LIGHT & his skillful use of Dutch Angles, such as in this shot below.

𝗠𝗬𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗧 (𝟭𝟵𝟱𝟬)

🚏 #MysteryStreet 🚏 #FilmNoirClub 🗝️
#Cinematography #JohnAlton
#FilmNoir 🕵️ #FilmSky 📽️

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“Anything photographed by John Alton is an event. He was an artist.”
— Martin Scorsese

My Letterboxd List:

"🎥 John Alton Film Noir Cinematography 🎥"
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𝗠𝗬𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗧 (𝟭𝟵𝟱𝟬)

🚏 #MysteryStreet 🚏 #FilmNoirClub 🗝️
#JohnAlton #Cinematography
#FilmNoir 🕵️ #FilmSky 📽️

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THE CROOKED WAY (1949), ingeniously photographed by John Alton.
#Noirvember #TheCrookedWay #Florey #Alton #JohnAlton #FilmNoir #NoirAlley @noirbeachshack.bsky.social #RobertFlorey @noirfoundation.bsky.social

Lee Van Cleef and Earl Holliman in THE BIG COMBO (1955).
#Noirvember #TheBigCombo #FilmNoir #JosephHLewis #JohnAlton #NoirAlley @noirfoundation.bsky.social @noirbeachshack.bsky.social

🔸THE BIG COMBO is an amazing cinematography treat. JOHN ALTON does a bang-up job that elevates this film far above its abilities. I can see how his work would be soooo great for comic artists.

#johnalton #comics

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"It's not what you light - it's what you DON'T light."

🎥 Remembering master cinematographer #JohnAlton, who shot some of the finest noirs, won an Oscar for "An American In Paris," and wrote the grand book "Painting With Light", #BOTD 5 Oct 1901. #Film #Filmmaking

MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“There’s a revolution going on. Don’t stay out late.”
Arnold Moss in Reign of Terror (aka The Black Box)
#ReignOfTerror #TheBlackBox #AnthonyMann #PhilipYordan #AeneasMacKenzie #JohnAlton #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday

"It's not what you light - it's what you DON'T light."

🎥 #JohnAlton, great cinematographer, #DOTD 2 June 1996. #Cinematography #Film #Filmmaking

Happy (𝟭𝟭𝟴th) birthday, Joseph H. #Lewis [°Apr. 6, 1907 – Aug. 30, 2000]🌹😔

#GunCrazy #DeadlyIstheFemale #TheBigCombo #MyNameIsJuliaRoss #SoDarktheNight #TheJolsonStory #JohnAlton #KingBrothersProductions #PhilipYordan #ErnestineMiriamson #JosephHLewis

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📽️ Anthony Mann (1950)

Une production soutenant les natives americans.
Premier long-métrage du cinéaste pour un western âpre et sans concessions.
✍️ #GuyTrosper
🎼 #DanieleAmfitheatrof
📸 #JohnAlton

Designing cities for film:

"You know what a city is. And you know how cities tend to look. But a city needn’t look like that to still be a city. The concept of city comes before the aesthetic."

Feat. thoughts by #JohannesItten #ItaloCalvino #GeorgesPerec #JohnAlton #JacquesTati

Read more & share:

THE CROOKED WAY (1949), ingeniously photographed by John Alton.
#Noirvember #TheCrookedWay #Florey #Alton #JohnAlton #FilmNoir #NoirAlley

Lee Van Cleef and Earl Holliman in THE BIG COMBO (1955).
#Noirvember #TheBigCombo #FilmNoir #JosephHLewis #JohnAlton #NoirAlley