Visions of Light (1992)
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105764/]
The Gist:
This is an interesting documentary about the impact that cinematographers have had on Hollywood film history, particularly with the depiction of light in film. While it kind of plainly goes through the touchstone "lighting" films one by one, there are so many keen insights into the films and the craft of lighting itself that the doc remains very engaging. For instance, in The Godfather they intentionally lit the whole movie dark just for one character motivation: through the movie you can't see Brando's eyes and it gives the character a sort of enigmatic edge to his thought process, etc.
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