Christopher Doyle Filmography

Occupation:: Cinematographer
Biography:: A hard-drinking Australian seems an unlikely figure to be one of the most important and influential cinematographers in Asian cinema, but that is exactly what Christopher Doyle is. His richly atmospheric, improvisational style has worked its way into the lexicon of both music videos and mainstream...Read More

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Ashes of Time Redux

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Maggie Cheung

Synopsis: Master Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai directed this lyrical, dream-like martial arts epic. A famously troubled shoot, the film took two years and 40 million dollars to produce (a shocking sum for a national cinema populated with low-budget quickies) and features a virtual who's who of the Hong Read More

10/10/08
Paranoid Park

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Gabe Nevins, Taylor Momsen, Jake Miller, Dan Liu, Lauren McKinney, Scott Green

Synopsis: A teenage skateboarder has a run-in with a security guard that results in the man's death. Confused, fearful, and evasive, the teen wanders the streets of Portland as his life takes a turn for the worse in director Gus Van Sant's screen adaptation of author Blake Nelson's grim coming-of-age tome. Read More

3/7/08
Downloading Nancy

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Maria Bello, Jason Patric, Rufus Sewell, Amy Brenneman, Michael Nyqvist

Synopsis: A self-destructive housewife takes what may be her final step into the abyss in this independent psychological drama. Nancy Stockwell (Maria Bello) is a woman edging into her forties who has fallen into a deep and prolonged state of depression, finding her only solace in self-inflicted pain. Nancy Read More

2008
Warsaw Dark

Crew: Director

Actors: Anna Przybylska, Leslaw Zurek, Violetta Arlak, Adam Ferency, Jan Frycz

Synopsis: Prominent cinematographer Christopher Doyle continues to hone his talents as a director with this thriller set in Eastern Europe and inspired by the as-yet-unsolved murder of a Polish politician in 2001. A young prostitute (Anna Przybylska) is spending the evening with a prominent Polish official Read More

2008
Sunflower

Crew: Consultant/advisor

Actors: Joan Chen, Sun Haiyung, Liu Zi Feng, Zhang Fan, Gao Ge

Synopsis: The tumultuous relationship between a father returning home after years in a labor camp and the nine-year-old son who doesn't quite know what to make of this new man in his life lies at the heart of director Zhang Yang's heartfelt drama addressing the nature of change and the importance of family Read More

8/17/07
Paris, je t'aime

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Twenty acclaimed filmmakers from around the world look at love in the City of Lights in this omnibus feature. Paris Je T'aime features eighteen short stories, each set in a different part of Paris and each featuring a different cast and director (two segments were produced by two filmmakers in Read More

5/4/07
In the Mood for Doyle

Actors: Christopher Doyle

2007
Lady in the Water

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeffrey Wright, Bob Balaban, Sarita Choudhury

Synopsis: M. Night Shyamalan writes and directs this self-proclaimed, grown-up "bedtime story" about an apartment building superintendent named Cleveland (Paul Giamatti) who discovers a magical sea-nymph named Story (Bryce Dallas Howard) who's been transported to this world and is living in the building's Read More

7/21/06
Porte de Choisy

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Barbet Schroeder, Li Xin

Synopsis: Named for a Metro station in Paris' 13th Arrondissement, filmmaker Christopher Doyle's surrealistic Porte de Choisy stars fellow director Barbet Schroeder as an elderly salesman hawking salon products in Paris's Asian district. The film is part of Paris, Je T'Aime, a compilation of short subjects Read More

2006
The White Countess

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Hiroyuki Sanada

Synopsis: James Ivory directed this historical drama of a man who has shut himself away from a world he cannot change. Todd Jackson (Ralph Fiennes) is an American expatriate living in Shanghai in the late '30s. While Jackson was once an American diplomat who came to Shanghai with great optimism about Read More

12/21/05
Three... Extremes

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Bai Ling, Miriam Yeung, Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Pauline Lau, Zabit Memedov

Synopsis: Three Asian directors, from Hong Kong, Korea, and Japan, join forces to create an omnibus horror film, Three...Extremes. In Fruit Chan's "Dumplings," shot by Christopher Doyle, Mrs. Li (Miriam Yeung), a thirtysomething former actress with a philandering husband (Tony Leung) goes to visit Aunt Mei (Bai Ling Read More

10/28/05
2046

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Gong Li, Takuya Kimura, Faye Wong, Zhang Ziyi

Synopsis: Hong Kong-based filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai moves back and forth in time as he reexamines and amplifies the themes from his film In the Mood for Love in this offbeat romantic drama. Opening in the year 2046, in which a man named Tak (Takuya Kimura) attempts to persuades wjw 1967 (Faye Wong) to travel Read More

8/5/05
Eros

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Gong Li, Chang Chen, Tin Fung, Robert Downey, Jr., Alan Arkin

Synopsis: Three of the world's most gifted filmmakers offer their own unique perspectives on love and lust in this omnibus film. The initial episode, "The Hand," was directed by Wong Kar-Wai, and tells the story of Zhang (Chang Chen), a young, virginal dressmaker's assistant who finds it difficult to Read More

4/8/05
Perhaps Love

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jacky Cheung, Zhou Xun, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Ji Jin-hee, Eric Tsang

Synopsis: Acclaimed director Peter Chan takes the helm for this lavish, award winning musical concerning the love triangle between a handsome actor, his beautiful co-star, and a talented film director. Lin (Takeshi Kaneshiro) and his ex-lover Sun (Zhou Xun) are shooting a movie for celebrated director Nie Read More

2005
Invisible Waves

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tadanobu Asano, Gang Hye-jeong, Eric Tsang, Maria Elena Cordero, Toon Hiranyasup

Synopsis: A hit man takes a vacation and finds both danger and faulty workmanship follow him wherever he goes in this offbeat comedy from Thai filmmaker Pen-ek Ratanaruang. Kyoji (Asano Tadanobu) is a hired killer based in Macau who works for Japanese crime boss Wiwat (Toon Hiranyasup). Kyoji poses as a Read More

2005
Days of Being Wild

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau

Synopsis: Following up on his debut As Tears Go By, master filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai directs this dark, brooding tale about identity and unrequited love. Set in 1960, the film center of the young, boyishly handsome Yuddy (Leslie Cheung), who learns from the drunken ex-prostitute who raised him that she is not Read More

11/19/04
Last Life in the Universe

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tadanobu Asano, Sinitta Boonyasak, Laila Boonyasak, Yutaka Matsushige, Riki Takeuchi

Synopsis: A story of two very different people coming together in the wake of personal tragedies, Last Life in the Universe stars Tadanobu Asano as Kenji, a quiet, bespectacled Japanese librarian living in Bangkok. Obsessed with suicide, he meticulously stages ways to kill himself, only to be interrupted Read More

8/6/04
Dumplings

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Miriam Yeung, Bai Ling, Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Wong Sum Yeung, Pauline Lau

Synopsis: What first began as a short-form study in terror now expands to a full-fledged, feature-length fright fest as director Fruit Chan explores the high price that people are willing to pay for youth and beauty. Originally one third of the horror anthology Three...Extremes, Dumplings tells the tale of Read More

2004
Lu Cha

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jiang Wen, Zhao Wei, Fang Lijun, Wang Haizhen, Yang Dong-geun

Synopsis: Jiang Wen, Zhao Wei, and Fang Lijun headline this romantic urban love story about a female professor who believes she can read her romantic future in a simple cup of tea. Wu is a successful college professor who could take her pick of handsome suitors, yet she cautiously abides by Lang Lang's Read More

2003
Hero

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Maggie Cheung, Chen Daoming, Zhang Ziyi

Synopsis: Hero is two-time Academy Award nominee Zhang Yimou's directorial attempt at exploring the concept of a Chinese hero. During the peak of their Warring States period, China was divided into seven kingdoms all fighting for supremacy. Most determined to dominate China was the kingdom of Qin, whose Read More

12/19/02
Infernal Affairs

Crew: Consultant/advisor

Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Andy Lau, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang, Chapman To

Synopsis: As Infernal Affairs opens, Ming (Andy Lau of Full-time Killer) is being initiated into the criminal underworld by triad boss Sam (Eric Tsang of The Accidental Spy), who ends his speech to his young charges by wishing them success in the police department. Ming enters the police academy, where he Read More

12/12/02
Rabbit-Proof Fence

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, David Gulpilil, Kenneth Branagh

Synopsis: After directing a number of major motion pictures in the United States, Australian-born filmmaker Phillip Noyce returned home to make this remarkable adventure-drama, based on a true story as well as a lamentable period in his nation's history. When European settlers first arrived in Australia Read More

11/29/02
The Quiet American

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Hai Yen, Rade Serbedzija

Synopsis: Graham Greene's allegorical novel about America's role in the Vietnam conflict, and how it was perceived by the rest of the world, is brought to the screen for the second time in this adaptation directed by Phillip Noyce. Thomas Fowler (Michael Caine) is a British journalist who in 1952 is Read More

11/22/02
Three

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Kim Hye-su, Jung Bo-Seog, Moon Jung-Hee, Park Hee-Soon, Jang Jun-Won

Synopsis: Three constitutes an omnibus package of three short horror films made by Asian directors. "Memories," made by Kim Ji-Woon, is about a woman (Kim Hye-Soo) who disappears from the home she shares with her husband (Jung Bo-Seog) and children, and ends up in a futuristic city filled with many Read More

2002
Made

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Sean Combs, Famke Janssen, Peter Falk, Faizon Love

Synopsis: In this reunion of Swingers co-stars Jon Favreau (making his feature directorial debut) and Vince Vaughn, the two star in a new Mob comedy set in the underbelly of New York City. Favreau plays Bobby, an aspiring boxer who has a lackluster record but refuses to give up his lifelong dream. Ricky Read More

7/13/01
In The Mood For Love

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Maggie Cheung, Lai Chin, Rebecca Pan

Synopsis: For his first film since the 1997 Hong Kong handover, auteur filmmaker Wong Kar-wai directs this moody period drama about unrequited love that, like his earlier work, swoons with romantic melancholy. Set in a Shanghaiese enclave in Hong Kong in 1962, the film centers on two young couples who rent Read More

2/2/01
Cho Chin Lun Hau Dik Yiyan Saigyai

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Eric Kot, Vincent Kok

Synopsis: Stand-up comedian Eric Kot directs and stars in this drama about love and artistic originality. Produced by auteur Wong Kar-wai, the film shares both a similar sumptuous look, thanks to Christopher Doyle's brilliant cinematography, and a familiar bifurcated narrative as that of the Hong Kong Read More

2000
Liberty Heights

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Adrien Brody, Ben Foster, Orlando Jones, Bebe Neuwirth, Joe Mantegna, Rebekah Johnson

Synopsis: Writer/director Barry Levinson returns to his home town of Baltimore, where he previously set three nostalgic features (Diner, Tin Men, and Avalon) for this story of two brothers growing up in the tumultuous days of 1954, as rock 'n' roll, the atom bomb, and the civil rights movement changed the Read More

11/17/99
Psycho

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen, William H. Macy

Synopsis: Independent film director Gus Van Sant attempts a first in American film history: a shot-by-shot remake of the classic 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho. With a few minor, modern-day changes (including filming it in color), his version is essentially the same film with a different cast and the Read More

12/4/98
Away With Words

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Tadanobu Asano, Kevin Sherlock, Mavis Xu, Christa Hughes, Georgina Dobson

Synopsis: Photographer Chris Doyle, who along with his own still work, has served as a cinematographer for Wong Kar-wai, Chen Kaige, and Edward Yang, makes his directorial debut with Away With Words, a very loosely plotted story that concerns what Doyle has called the two most important things in his life Read More

1998
Happy Together

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Chang Chen

Synopsis: Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai directs the strange, intimate drama Cheun Gwong Tsa Sit (Happy Together). Australian cinematographer Christopher Doyle employed multiple film speeds and different color film stock during the shooting. Ho (Leslie Cheung) and Lai (Tony Leung) are lovers from Hong Read More

1997
Comrades, Almost a Love Story

Synopsis: Destiny brings two people together, but they aren't sure if they're meant to be friends or lovers in this romantic comedy-drama. In 1986, Xiaojun (Leon Lai) arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, full of dreams about life in the big city and determined to make enough money to send for his Read More

1997
Chinese Box

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Gong Li, Maggie Cheung, Michael Hui, Rubén Blades

Synopsis: Hong Kong emigrant Wayne Wang directed and co-wrote (with Paul Theroux, Jean-Claude Carriere and Larry Gross) this story set in "the Pearl of the Orient" as the British government prepared to hand over the city to China in 1997. John (Jeremy Irons) is an English journalist who has lived in the Read More

1997
4 Mian Xiawa

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sandra Ng, Eric Kot, Jan Lamb, Karen Mok, Wyman Wong

Synopsis: In this anthology film, Hong-Kong actress Sandra Ng portrays five different characters in four segments: a hooker who stalks her own therapist; a mute immigrant wife who must continually pacify her brutish husband; a timid invalid whose twin sister is a businesswoman and cross-dresser; and a Read More

1997
Motel Seoninjang

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Lee Mi-Yun, Jin Hee-Kyung, Jung Woo-Sung, Park Shin-yang

Synopsis: Room 407 in a Seoul "love hotel" is rented by the night or by the hour. Four sequences take place inside Room 407: a young man awaits his girlfriend so they can celebrate her birthday; a college student plans to complete a video necessary for his filmmaking class, but his female lead is delayed by Read More

1997
Yang & Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: This entry in the British Film Institute-sponsored international centenary celebration of cinema -- in which noted directors presented a film exemplifying their country or region's cinema and its origins -- represents China, or rather one aspect of the country's large body of work as seen through Read More

1996
Temptress Moon

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Leslie Cheung, Gong Li, Kevin Lin, He Saifei, Chang Shi

Synopsis: Chen Kaige, the director of the international smash Farewell My Concubine, reunited that film's stars, Gong Li and Leslie Cheung, for this complexly layered, visually spectacular historical epic. Opening in 1911, shortly before the collapse of the Imperial government, Temptress Moon follows the Read More

1996
Fallen Angels

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Charlie Yeung, Karen Mok

Synopsis: Wong Kar-wai's Fallen Angels is a sequel of sorts to the director's 1994 U.S. breakthrough Chungking Express. Expanding on the latter's style, themes, and mood, Fallen Angels is set in the surreal milieu of urban, nighttime Hong Kong. As with the filmmaker's other features, plot takes a back seat Read More

1995
The Peony Pavilion

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Two young women find themselves unable to deal with the realities of their contemporary existence and so retreat into the colorful world of a classical Chinese opera from the Ming Dynasty, The Peony Pavilion to find solace in this Taiwanese drama. The film chronicles each woman's story Read More

1995
The Ed Lotus Society

Crew: Cinematographer

1994
Red Rose White Rose

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In this sensitive Asian melodrama chronicles the two major loves in the life of a man who cannot change. The story is divided into two parts; each part focused upon one woman. The story begins in Shanghai during the early 1930's and follows the loves of Chen-pao. His early love life abroad is Read More

1994
The Red Lotus Society

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ying Zhaode, Chen Wenming, Na Weixun, Li Tongcun, Lee Lichun

Synopsis: The ancient Asian martial art of vaulting is showcased in this Taiwanese film that intermixes elements of drama, fantasy, and romance. Ahda is training to be a vaulter. He dreams of attaining the heights and spiritual enlightenment of the mythical figures he idolizes. But Ahda must come to earth Read More

1994
Chungking Express

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Faye Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Valerie Chow

Synopsis: A Hong Kong fast food restaurant acts as the link between two unusual stories of police officers in love in this eccentric, stylish comedy-drama. Director Wong Kar-Wai plays freely with traditional narrative structure, dividing his film into two loosely connected segments. The first centers on a Read More

1994
Ashes of Time

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Brigitte Lin, Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Jacky Cheung

Synopsis:
Master Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai directed this lyrical, dream-like martial arts epic. A famously troubled shoot, the film took two years and 40 million dollars to produce (a shocking sum for a national cinema populated with low-budget quickies) and features a virtual who's-who of the Read More

1994
Mungsing Sifan

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Gong Li, Wilson Lam, Kenny Bee

Synopsis: Sylvia Chang Ai-chia directs this affable romantic comedy about anxieties over Hong Kong's impending handover to Mainland China and the cultural differences between the two countries. Ma-lei (Gong Li), who was born in Hong Kong but raised in Beijing, is having a dickens of a time trying to Read More

1992
Anlian Taohuayuan

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: It is 1949, in Singapore, and two acting troupes are rehearsing their forthcoming performances on the same stage. In this comic tour-de-force, scenes from one show are rehearsed and then scenes from another, and the two entirely different plays become intermingled in a hilarious fashion. The first Read More

1992
My Heart is That Eternal Rose

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Joey Wong, Kenny Bee, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Synopsis: Hong Kong director Patrick Tam's Cantonese-language saga My Heart is That Eternal Rose explores the social dynamics and tumultuous life-changes that unfold between two young men who are fast friends - Cheung (Tony Leung) and Rick (Kenny Bee) - and the sexy young woman caught between them, Lap Read More

1987
Noir et Blanc

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Francis Frappat, Jacques Martial, Josephine Fresson, Marc Berman, Benoit Regent

Synopsis: A white accountant finds himself irresistibly drawn into a sadomasochistic relationship with his black masseur in this distinguished film debut from French filmmaker Claire Devers. The story contains little dialog and is filmed in black and white. The accountant is a quiet married man who has been Read More

1986
Lao Niang Gou Sao

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Deanie Ip, Elaine Jin, Jacky Cheng, Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Synopsis: A wife becomes a widow when her policeman husband commits suicide by jumping off the roof of his building at work. Shocked at his death, she is further surprised to discover he had a mistress and a four-year-old son in Taiwan. After an attempt on the widow's life, the mistress is murdered, leaving Read More

1986
That Day, On the Beach

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sylvia Chang, Terry Hu, David Mao, Hsu Ming

Synopsis: Two estranged friends reunite and end up reminiscing, dreaming, and sharing their deepest secrets in this Taiwanese drama. One of the friends is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour. The other is a divorcee who has just started a new business. The two haven't seen each other Read More

1983

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