Néstor Almendros Filmography

Born:: October 30, 1930 in Barcelona, Spain
Occupation:: Cinematographer
Biography:: While growing up in Barcelona, cinematographer Nestor Almendros and his friends spent their spare time making amateur movies. Almendros curbed his cinematic impulses long enough to major in philosophy and literature at Havana University, but he was back behind the camera in the film department of...Read More

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Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography

Actors: Néstor Almendros, John A. Alonzo, Michael Ballhaus, Stephen H. Burum, Sven Nykvist, Vittorio Storaro, Haskell Wexler, Gordon Willis

Synopsis: The film equivalent of a stroll through the Louvre, the documentary Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography collects interviews with many of modern-day Hollywood's finest directors of photography and is illustrated by examples of their best work as well as scenes from the pictures which most Read More

1993
Billy Bathgate

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Loren Dean, Bruce Willis, Steven Hill

Synopsis: In this film version of E. L. Doctorow's Billy Bathgate, Loren Dean plays the title character, a street-smart kid who inveigles his way into the confidence of 1930s gangster Dutch Schultz (Dustin Hoffman). Billy is ordered to look after Schultz' new moll, Drew Preston (Nicole Kidman), while Dutch Read More

11/1/91
New York Stories

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Nick Nolte, Rosanna Arquette, Heather McComb, Patrick O'Neal, Talia Shire, Jesse Borrego, Mia Farrow, Woody Allen, Mae Questel, Julie Kavner, Steve Buscemi, Giancarlo Giannini

Synopsis: The omnibus film New York Stories is the product of three powerhouse filmmakers. The film is divided into three stories, each exploring a different aspect of life in the Big Apple. Life Lessons, directed by Martin Scorcese, is a Dostoevsky-like tale of the rarefied Art World, with Nick Nolte as a Read More

3/1/89
Imagine: John Lennon - The Definitive Film Portrait

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Yoko Ono, John Lennon

Synopsis: The personal film archives of Yoko Ono were utilized for this feature-length documentary on the life of John Lennon. Predictably, it downplays Lennon's association with the Beatles and concentrates on his years with Ono. The film spends a lot of time recounting Lennon's anti-war activities Read More

10/7/88
Nadie Escuchaba

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Despite a well-established record of mass torture and imprisonment of thousands of law-abiding citizens for political reasons, it sometimes appears that the regime of Ferdinand Castro in Cuba has gotten away with its crimes. So completely is this the case that, to leftists all over the world, the Read More

1988
Nadine

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Rip Torn, Gwen Verdon, Glenne Headly

Synopsis: A woman trying to keep a momentary indiscretion quiet finds herself in more trouble than she ever imagined in this comedy written and directed by Robert Benton. Nadine Hightower (Kim Basinger), who is significantly more beautiful than intelligent, is fast-talked into posing for some cheesecake Read More

8/7/87
Mes Petites Amoureuses

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Martin Loeb, Ingrid Caven, Jacqueline Dufranne, Dionys Mascolo, Pierre Edelman

Synopsis: This film reveals the thoughts and observations of a good-natured young man as he lives through situations which would crush someone less accepting. The boy is being brought up in the country by his grandmother, and Daniel (Martin Loeb) is seen showing off amiably for his friends. Soon his Read More

1/30/87
Heartburn

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels, Maureen Stapleton, Stockard Channing

Synopsis: Though she always played coy about the fact in interviews, Nora Ephron's novel Heartburn is a thinly disguised "a clef" rehash of her marriage to Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein. Meryl Streep plays Rachel, an influential food critic who marries charismatic columnist Mark (Jack Nicholson) Read More

7/25/86
Mauvaise Conduite

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Fidel Castro

Synopsis: Improper Conduct was written and directed by famed Spanish cinematographer Nestor Alemandros. With uncompromising clarity, Alemandros lays bare the cruelties and despotism of Cuba's Castro regime. The director interviews several Cuban expatriates, including writers, filmmakers and political Read More

1984
Places in the Heart

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, John Malkovich, Danny Glover

Synopsis: Of the three "mortgage on the farm" films of 1984 (Country and The River were the other two), Places in the Heart is the only one set during the Depression. After her husband is killed, Sally Field is forced to take over the debt-ridden Texas family farm herself. Though slightly embittered by the Read More

1984
Confidentially Yours

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Laudenbach, Caroline Sihol, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Philippe Morier-Genoud

Synopsis: In this light, sometimes tongue-in-cheek mystery based on a Charles Williams thriller -- with snippets of Hitchcock, Kubrick, and even Victor Hugo -- director François Truffaut showcases one of his favorite actresses, Fanny Ardant, as an enterprising secretary in love with her boss but up against Read More

1983
Pauline at the Beach

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasle, Pascal Greggory, Féodor Atkine, Simon de la Brosse

Synopsis: Pauline a la Plage is the third of French filmmaker Eric Rohmer's "Comedies et Proverbes." Pauline (Amanda Langlet) is the teen-aged cousin of the seemingly more worldly and sensible Marion (Arielle Dombasle). Both girls become entwined in amorous escapades while vacationing at the beach. It Read More

1983
Still of the Night

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy, Joe Grifasi, Sara Botsford

Synopsis: In Still of the Night, a mystery thriller written and directed by Robert Benton, a psychiatrist falls in love with a woman who is suspected of the murder of one of his patients. Dr. Sam Rice (Roy Scheider) is treating a married museum curator. When the man is killed, Sam is visited by his dead Read More

1982
Sophie's Choice

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin, Stephen D. Newman

Synopsis: The year is 1947. Aspiring southern author Stingo (Peter MacNichol) heads to New York to seek his fortune. Moving into a dingy Brooklyn boarding house, Stingo strikes up a friendship with research chemist Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline) and Nathan's girlfriend, Polish refugee Sophie Zawistowska Read More

1982
The Last Metro

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Heinz Bennent, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: The Last Metro is set virtually in its entirety in a crumbling French theatre. During the Nazi occupation, Jewish director Lucas Steiner (Heinz Bennent) hides in the basement of the theatre, while his wife Marion (Catherine Deneuve) stars in its latest production. Marion is enamored of leading man Read More

1980
The Blue Lagoon

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern, William Daniels, Elva Josephson

Synopsis: This 1980 version of the oft-filmed Henry Devere Stackpoole novel The Blue Lagoon was the first to be stamped with an "R" rating. The basic story remains unchanged. Two very small children, a boy and a girl, are shipwrecked on a lush tropical island. They are cared for by fellow castaway Leo Read More

1980
Perceval

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier, Marie-Christine Barrault, Marc Eyraud

Synopsis: This dignified and stylized film, set in the Middle Ages, follows the exploits of Sir Perceval, a legendary exemplar of knightly chivalry and one of the champions of King Arthur's Round Table. The story is based on the verse tale Perceval ou le Conte del Graal. as recounted by the 12th-century Read More

2/7/79
Kramer vs. Kramer

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry, Jane Alexander, Howard Duff, JoBeth Williams

Synopsis: Robert Benton's Oscar-winning adaptation of Avery Corman's bestseller takes on contemporary problems of divorce and shifting gender roles, as a jilted husband learns how to be a nurturing father. Manhattan housewife Joanna Kramer (Meryl Streep) walks out on her workaholic ad man husband Ted (Dustin Hoffman Read More

1979
Love on the Run

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Claude Jade, Dorothée, Daniel Mesguich

Synopsis: L'Amour en Fuite (Love on the Run) is presented in flashbacks from the previous four movies as Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) meets up with people from his past. As the fifth and final film in the series, Antoine is over 30 years old and meets with his wife, Christine (Claude Jade), to sign Read More

1979
Goin' South

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd, John Belushi, Veronica Cartwright

Synopsis: Sentenced to hang in a backwater western town, horse thief Henry Moon (Jack Nicholson) is saved when frontierswoman Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen) agrees to marry him. Taking advantage of the town law that prohibits the execution of married men, Moon follows Tate back to her ranch, planning all the Read More

1978
Days of Heaven

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz, Robert J. Wilke

Synopsis: Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, the long-awaited follow-up to his 1973 debut Badlands, confirmed his reputation as a visual poet and narrative iconoclast with a story of love and murder told through the jaded voice of a child and expressive images of nature. In 1916, Chicago steelworker Bill (Richard Gere Read More

1978
The Green Room

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Jean Dasté, François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Moulin, Jane Lobre

Synopsis: The Green Room (La Chambre Verte) is perhaps the least well-known of Francois Truffaut's 1970s films. Truffaut himself stars as Julien Davenne, a WW I-era journalist obsessed with death. As his friends drop like flies on the battlefield, Davenne's obsessions overwhelm him. At war's end, he devotes Read More

1978
Koko le Gorille Qui Parle

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Penny Patterson, an American psychology student, began an experiment in primate communication in the early 1970s using a young zoo gorilla named Koko, who was loaned to Penny for the experiment. Due to a philosophical predisposition to consider that "humanizing" animals is wrong, and alarmed at Read More

1978
The Man Who Loved Women

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey, Nelly Borgeaud, Geneviève Fontanel, Nathalie Baye

Synopsis: When he suddenly dies and is buried, the late Bertrand Morane (Charles Denner), an aeronautical engineer from Montpelier, receives funeral visitation from hundreds of women. Little wonder: in life, Morane simply couldn't keep his mind off of women -- one glance at a well-turned ankle and he was Read More

1977
La Vie Devant Soi

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Simone Signoret, Claude Dauphin, Sammy Ben Youb, Gabriel Jabbour, Michael Bat-Adam

Synopsis: Madame Rosa (Simone Signoret) is an aging former prostitute who, in her dotage, makes a living by caring for the children of other prostitutes in Paris' Arab community. Haunted by memories of her experiences in a Nazi concentration camp, Rosa is seized with the notion that the Gestapo is still Read More

1977
Cambio de Sexo

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Victoria Abril

Synopsis: Themes long forbidden in Spain under the Franco dictatorship began to be explored in the years just following his demise. In this 1976 film, an unhappy and very effeminate man (played by a woman, Victoria Abril), experiences one difficulty after another. As a boy in Cataluña, his father attempts Read More

1976
The Marquise of O

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Edda Seippel, Otto Sander

Synopsis: The costume drama Die Marquise von O is French director Eric Rohmer's first feature-length theatrical release after a four-year break from filmmaking. Based on a short story by Henrich von Kleist, the dialogue is spoken in the original German language and the story is set in Italy during the Read More

1976
Maîtresse

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Bulle Ogier, André Rouyer, Tony Taffin

Synopsis: For a change, the character portrayed by Gérard Depardieu in Maîtresse is relatively normal; it is the world around him which has gone slightly mad. Looking for a measure of affection and companionship, Olivier (Depardieu) crosses the path of the lovely Ariane (Bulle Ogier). She happens to be a Read More

1976
Des Journées Entières Dans Les Arbres

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Madeleine Renaud, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Bulle Ogier

Synopsis: A woman (Madeleine Renaud) whose son (Jean-Pierre Aumont) has been estranged from her for years travels to visit him in Paris. Despite offers of money and position, he would prefer to remain a petty thief, gigolo, and paid dancer rather than have anything to do with his mother. She has factories Read More

1976
The Story of Adele H.

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott, Reuben Dorey, Joseph Blatchley

Synopsis: Based on the real-life diaries of Adèle Hugo, The Story of Adele H. is a psychological drama opening in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the 1860s. The daughter of famous French writer Victor Hugo, Adèle (Isabelle Adjani) has left her father's home to seek out her fiancé, the English soldier Lt. Albert Read More

1975
The Gentleman Tramp

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Gentleman Tramp utilizes clearer-than-usual vintage filmclips to trace the life and career of comedy giant Charlie Chaplin. This made-for-TV documentary was produced in the wake of Chaplin's "special Oscar" win of 1972 and the subsequent renewal of interest in his work. Walter Matthau provides the Read More

1975
Cockfighter

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Warren Oates, Richard B. Shull, Harry Dean Stanton, Troy Donahue, Millie Perkins

Synopsis: Frank Mansfield (Warren Oates) is a game cock trainer who has taken a vow of silence; he once bragged too loudly about his cockfighting prowess and ended up losing his best fowl in a drunken, late-night match before an important tournament. To regain his pride after such hubris, Frank refuses to Read More

1974
Femmes au Soleil

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Juliette Mayniel, Geneviève Fontanel, Nathalie Chantrel, Jacques Richard

Synopsis: Three women unwind while on a summer vacation, and as they slowly relax around one another, they begin to discuss the truths of their lives. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
General Idi Amin Dada

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada was but a distant irritation to everyone but his own countrymen and the British Empire until his perfidy became headline material in the early '70s. The first director to provide an in-depth study of this gregarious madman was director Barbet Schroeder, with his Read More

1974
L'Oiseau Rare

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Micheline Presle, Anny Duperey, Jacqueline Maillan

Synopsis: This French comedy journeys with Armand (Jean-Claude Brialy), a valet, as he tries to find an appropriate employer for his specialized skills. Alas, the rich are not what they used to be. His first employer's husband is jailed for embezzlement and she can no longer afford him; his second employer Read More

1973
La Gueule Ouverte

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Hubert Deschamps, Philippe Léotard, Monique Melinand

Synopsis: When cancer strikes the mother of the family in this French film, everyone in the family expresses a previously invisible caring and tolerance of the others. The father has always been a bit of a drunk, and is forever chasing younger women. Despite that, he and his wife care for each other, and he Read More

1973
Chloe in the Afternoon

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Bernard Verley, Zouzou, Francoise Verley, Daniel Ceccaldi, Malvina Penne

Synopsis: Eric Rohmer ends his cycle of "Six Moral Tales" with this delightful film starring Bernard Verley as Frederic, a happily married man who discovers that he can't stop looking at beautiful women. As he says in a voiceover, "I feel marriage closes me in, cloisters me, and I want to escape." His Read More

1972
La Vallée

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Michael Gothard, Valerie Lagrange

Synopsis: An early film by director Barbet Schroeder, La Vallée stars Bulle Ogier as the wife of a diplomat who embarks on a journey through the jungles of New Guinea in order to locate a rarely seen type of bird feather. During the course of her quest, she meets up with a group of free-spirited hippies who Read More

1972
Poil de Carotte

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Monique Chaumette, Francois Cohn, Paul Frankeur

1972
Two English Girls

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter, Sylvia Marriott, Philippe Léotard

Synopsis: Among the great François Truffaut films, Two English Girls is likely the least known. Its story of a romantic triangle inevitably invites comparison to Truffaut's Jules and Jim, and not surprisingly, as both are based on novels by Henri-Pierre Roche (the only two novels Roche authored). Truffaut Read More

1971
Bed and Board

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Hiroko Berghauer, Barbara Laage, Claire Duhamel, Danièle Gérard

Synopsis: In the fourth installment of François Truffaut's Antoine Doniel series, this romantic comedy shows how Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) went from being a mischievous boy to an adorably charming young man of 26. Domicile Conjugal begins with Antoine settling down with Christine (Claude Jade), his Read More

1/1/70
Claire's Knee

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Aurora Cornu, Béatrice Romand, Laurence de Monaghan, Fabrice Luchini

Synopsis: The fifth of Eric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales," Claire's Knee is a deliciously Rohmeresque story of sexual obsession. French diplomat Jerome (Jean-Claude Brialy), on a resort vacation, meets Claire (Laurence De Monaghan), the teen-aged daughter of a friend. Though engaged to be married, Jerome falls Read More

1970
The Wild Child

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cargol, François Truffaut, Jean Dasté, Françoise Seigner, Paul Ville

Synopsis: Based on a real-life case study, recorded in Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard's 1806 volume Memoire et Rapport sur Victor de L'Aveyron, The Wild Child is spiritually in line with François Truffaut's other films about the pains of adolescence. Truffaut himself plays Dr. Jean Itard, a doctor working at Read More

1970
My Night at Maud's

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Antoine Vitez, Marie-Christine Barrault, Anne Dubot

Synopsis: The "my" in My Night At Maud's belongs to the protagonist played by Jean-Louis Trintignant, a Catholic engineer whose struggle with his faith is renewed when he falls instantly in love with a woman he's never met (Marie-Christine Barrault) while attending mass. A chance meeting with an amoral old Read More

1969
Gun Runner

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In this actioner, a government agent must stop a South American arms-smuggling operation that has been providing firearms to a fanatical sect in Texas. Along the way he meets a wanderer who helps the undercover agent join the gang. The drifter begins impersonating a sailor and meets a prostitute Read More

1969
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Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Mimsy Farmer, Klaus Grunberg, Heinz Engelmann, Louise Wink, Michel Chanderli

Synopsis: A young man from Germany (Klaus Grunberg) leaves home and travels to Paris. Hooking up with a group of hippies, he is enamored by an American girl (Mimsy Farmer) he meets at a party. The two leave for an island off the coast of Spain and become lovers. He becomes aware she is a heroin user and Read More

1969
The Wild Racers

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Fabian, Mimsy Farmer, Judy Cornwell, David Landers, Warwick Sims

Synopsis: Jo-Jo (Fabian) is a racecar driver recruited to drive for a wealthy racing promoter. When he's not on the fast track, he moves in on female interests with equal speed. His main love interest is played by Mimsy Farmer in this dull feature plagued by a general feeling of boredom from the cast and Read More

1968
La Collectionneuse

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Haydee Politoff, Patrick Bauchau, Daniel Pommereulle, Mijanou Bardot, Eugene Archer

Synopsis: La Collectionneuse is the third of director Eric Rohmer's "Six contes moraux" (six moral tales), and also the first of the series to attain full feature-length status (each of the first two entries, La Boulangere de Monceau and La Carriere de la Suzanne, ran less than one hour). Patrick Bauchau Read More

1967
Paris vu Par...

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Micheline Dax, Claude Chabrol, Stéphane Audran, Nadine Ballot, Barbara Wilkin, Jean-Francois Chappey, Jean-Michel Rouziere, Joanna Shimkus

Synopsis: A sextet of French filmmakers collaborated on Six in Paris (originally Paris vu Par...) Jean Douchet directed the film's first episode, "Saint Germain-des-Pres," the story of the up-and-down relationship between a male model (Jean-Francois Chappey) and an American coed (Barbara Wilkin). Jean Read More

1965

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