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Darius Khondji

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Biography

Darius Khondji AFC, ASC (born 21 October 1955) is an Iranian-French cinematographer, known for works from a number of high-profile directors, including Bong Joon-ho, David Fincher, Woody Allen, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and James Gray. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award and three César Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Darius Khondji, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Notable films

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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Se7en

Director of Photography

Funny Games

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Okja

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Marty Supreme

Director of Photography

Eddington

Director of Photography

The Ninth Gate

Director of Photography

Alien Resurrection

Director of Photography

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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Death as Choreography: Eight Films of Inventive Demise

From cosmic indifference to moral punishment, these eight horror films treat death as a precise, theatrical art form. Each kill is a set piece, a statement, and...

8 films

Remakes That Missed but Matter

From Neil LaBute's Wicker Man to Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria, a journey through remakes that stumbled yet reveal why we keep returning to the classics.

8 films

What We Make Monsters Of

A creature feature is rarely about the creature. From Na Hong-jin's Hope to a Scottish island burning its own kindness, this is a chain about communities that d...

8 films

The Beautiful Game on Screen

From the favelas of Rio to the pitches of Glasgow, a journey through football's cinematic universe, where the sport becomes a mirror for society, identity, and...

8 films

The Mind's Eye: Crime Films of Obsession and Interiority

From a detective's haunted pursuit to a killer's fractured psyche, this chain traces cinema's most intimate crime stories, where the real action happens inside...

8 films

20 Home Video Releases Every Film Obsessive Should Own

There was a brief, glorious period in the late 1990s and early 2000s when buying a film on home video felt less like acquiring a product and more like being han...

20 films

The DVDs That Changed Everything

In the late 1990s, home video underwent a seismic shift driven by a double revolution: an unprecedented jump in technical quality, and an unprecedented access t...

10 films

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