Spanish Cinematographers - Jesus Franco, Jose Luis Alcaine, Alfredo F. Mayo, Juan Ruiz Anchia, Nestor Almendros, Teresa Medina (Paperback)

Chapters: Jesus Franco, Jose Luis Alcaine, Alfredo F. Mayo, Juan Ruiz Anchia, Nestor Almendros, Teresa Medina, Javier Aguirresarobe, Juan Amoros, Eduardo Jimeno. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jesus "Jess" Franco (born 12 May 1930 as Jesus Franco Manera) is a Spanish film director, writer, cinematographer and actor. His career took off in 1961 with his cult classic "The Awful Dr. Orloff," which received very good distribution in the United States and England. Though he had an American box office success with his first women-in-prison film 99 Women in 1968, followed by his two excellent Christopher Lee films, "The Bloody Judge" and "Count Dracula," he never achieved wide commercial success. Franco moved from Spain to France in 1970 so that he could make more violent and sexy films, and it was at this point that his career began to go downhill commercially. By the mid-1970's, many people in the industry considered him a porn director and the mainstream critics would no longer take him seriously. Franco has nevertheless retained a small cult following through the years with his sexually-charged horror films. He was very prolific from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s, and while he continues to work, the quality of his films has gone way down in recent years. Most of the films he has made since the mid-1990's are extremely low-budget and appear to have been shot on video, some being almost unwatchable (unless you are an ardent Francophile). Franco has sometimes worked under various pseudonyms, including David Khune and Frank Hollmann. A big fan of jazz music (and a musician himself), many of his pseudonyms are taken from famous jazz musicians, such as Clifford Brown and James P. Johnson. Franco made a half-dozen films starring the Spanish beaut...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=117616