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Boris Abelevich Kaufman, A.S.C. (Russian: Бори́с А́белевич Ка́уфман; August 24, 1906 – June 24, 1980) was a Russian-born American cinematographer and the younger brother of Soviet filmmakers Dziga Vertov and Mikhail Kaufman.
Boris Kaufman, the Oscar-winning cinematographer who shot Jean Vigo's oeuvre and helped introduce a neo-realistic style into American films, was born on August 24, 1897, in Bialystok, Poland, then part of the Russian Empire.
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- New York City, New York, USA
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- Boris Kaufman
- L’Atalante (1934), Directed by Jean Vigo
- On The Waterfront (1954), Directed by Elia Kazan
- 12 Angry Men (1957), Directed by Sidney Lumet
- Long Day’S Journey Into Night (1962) , Directed by Sidney Lumet
- All The Way Home (1963) , Directed by Alex Segal
The culmination of the collaboration between French director Jean Vigo and Polish born Kaufman is a stunning visual masterwork. Their previous film, Zero for conduct inspired both Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows and Lindsay Anderson’s If…, but this lyrical romance set on board a ship is the better film so if you see only one Vigo film, this is th...
Kazan wanted the neorealist look of the post-war Italian films but he reached further back into film history and chose Vigo’s partner to provide the documentary style he was looking for. The realistic look of Kaufman’s cinematography matches the harsh reality of the drama being played out on the streets and in the shipyards. Kaufman proved a master...
From the confined space of the taxicab in On the Waterfront to the confined space of the jury room in 12 Angry Men Kaufman’s cinematography here gives Lumet what he was looking for, a concentration on the actors bringing more of an immediacy of the drama than was evident in the earlier TV version directed by Franklin J. Schaffner with an emphasis o...
Lumet, having been an actor himself, usually stood back and allowed his actors, the good ones anyway, to find their own voices, but what makes this version of Eugene O’Neill’s work so unique is that without changing a single word of dialogue he changes the focus from the father in the play hereby played by ralph Richardson, to the mother hereby pla...
Subsequent TV versions of Tad Mosel’s play from James Agee’s novel are better known. The 1971 version starred Joanne Woodward and the 1981 version Sally Field and they’re both good, but this earlier screen version with a luminous performance from Jean Simmons is still the best. Ironically it’s a rare big screen film from a director best known for h...
Boris Abelevich Kaufman (Russian: Бори́с Абра́мович Ка́уфман; August 24, 1897 – June 24, 1980) was a Russian cinematographer. Kaufman was born in today's Poland as the youngest son of a Russian librarian.
In his 45-year-long career, Boris Kaufman filmed newsreels, avant-garde films, documentaries, industrials, TV commercials, and feature films, winning an Academy Award for black-and-white cinematography in 1954 ( On the Waterfront ) and maintaining lengthy collaborations with three notable movie directors—Jean Vigo, Elia Kazan, and Sidney Lumet.
Worked in French film industry as a cinematographer for directors such as Jean Vigo, 1928-40; worked for Canadian Film Board, c. 1941-43; made war propaganda films and documentaries for O.W.I. Military service: Served in the French Army, 1940-41.
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Boris Kaufman is known as an Director of Photography, Cinematography, Actor, Camera Operator, Writer, Editor, and Director. Some of his work includes 12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront, L'Atalante, Splendor in the Grass, Zero for Conduct, The Pawnbroker, About Nice, and Baby Doll.
