Sunday 29 November 2015

Sabrina (1954 Billy Wilder)

When you need something top quality...

"There'll be an awful scandal and the market will go down."

Wilder claims not to know Audrey Hepburn and William Holden were allegedly having an affair.

Hepburn was very fresh - just after Roman Holiday. She has such a distinctive voice.

Audrey Hepburn Estate Collection
It's a marvellous jewel of a film, photographic-wise. Every shot looks like it's from Vogue magazine.

Wilder: Charles Lang was very good. He's still very, very strong. Lang sort of walked around, always, with the same look on his face: squinting, filled with thought, as if he were looking at the world, not just the movie, and thinking "What kind of exposure is this? What exposure is the world?" He was in the upper class of photographers, along with LaShelle. He was on time, a wonderful collaborator, and I loved him.

Crowe: Any advice for shooting a picture in black-and-white?

Wilder: Get yourself an ageing master cinematographer.

'Conversations with Wilder', Cameron Crowe, 1999.

Charles Lang in 1936
Scenes with Marcel Hillaire are hilaire.

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