William Lubtchansky: 26.Oktober 1937 - 04.Mai 2010

»As a cinematographer, Lubtchansky may not have brought about as manifest a technical revolution as did Gregg Toland and Raoul Coutard, but he played a crucial role in the work of the most historically-informed and classical-minded of modernist filmmakers, by infusing traditional cinematic craftsmanship with a decisively modernist spirit. In his intimate, heuristic, thorough, and open-ended devotion to movie-making as both an art and a way of life, Lubtchansky took a leading role in another aspect of cinematic revolution—the realization, in practice, of the ideals of personal filmmaking that fueled the French New Wave and that, perhaps, only an actual social revolution, that of 1968, could have brought to fruition. If these ideals continue to inspire filmmakers around the world, it’s due largely to the films on which Lubtchansky worked, which validate and honor those ideals and provide enduring proof of their artistic vitality.« (Richard Brody in The New Yorker)