Vilmos Zsigmond – Stream On Demand

Warren Beatty and Julie Christie in the 1971 western by Robert Altman

Warren Beatty and Julie Christie are ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, Last chance, National Film Registry, SVOD, western 12/17/2022 Sean Axmaker

Robert Altman turns the western myth into a metaphor for the fantasy of the American Dream colliding with the power of big business.

László Kovács and Vilmos Zsigmond in the documentary by James Chressanthis

‘No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo and Vilmos’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Documentary, DVD, movies about movies, SVOD 08/30/2017 Sean Axmaker

No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo and Vilmos (2012) profiles friends and fellow cinematographers László Kovács and Vilmos Zsigmond, who fled Hungary in 1956 and worked their way from exploitation films to shooting some of the defining American films of the seventies and eighties. Beginning with Easy Rider (photographed by Kovács), they helped redefine the way movies […]

Valora Noland and John Hanek in the 1965 film 'Summer Children,' a lost indie film restored in 2011.

Lost and Found: ‘Summer Children’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Have You Seen...? 01/04/2016 Sean Axmaker

With the news that the Vilmos Zsigmond, the great cinematographer of McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Deliverance, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Deer Hunter, and many other defining American films of the seventies, passed away this week, I’ve revived this review of an early Zsigmond feature, a lost American indie from the sixties discovered early this century. Produced in […]