For fans of Cardiff, for fans of the Archers, and for fans of all great cinema, Cameraman is a must-see.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 5, 2019

His story ends in 2009, but his achievements live on, with "Cameraman" a sublime education on the masterful work of Jack Cardiff.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Nov 12, 2017

McCall draws on Cardiff's life-long love of painting to adopt a similarly impressionistic style, brushing broad sweeps of anecdote and recollection about the cameraman on to his canvas to create a complex and emotionally engaging picture.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 9, 2013

It's the images seen through Cardiff's lens that makes Cameraman such a joy to watch.

Full Review | Original Score: 7.7/10 | Aug 6, 2011

Although we never really learn much about his life outside the movies, by the end of the film we are in awe of his work accomplishments.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 28, 2011

For the cinaste, it's required viewing.

Full Review | Jul 8, 2011

"Cameraman" should be required viewing for anyone interested in becoming more visually literate in an ever-more-media-drenched age.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 8, 2011

Cardiff was the greatest color cameraman who ever lived.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 23, 2011

Cameraman gives us insight into how and why movies manage to swallow us up for two hours and make us think we understand places, eras, and feelings we've never experienced.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 22, 2011

After years of DVD special features, even dedicated buffs may be somewhat blas about a film that takes us behind the scenes to explore one man's career...but this is no ordinary documentary, and its subject is no ordinary filmmaker. Jack Cardiff was a...

Full Review | Jun 3, 2011

Unfolds in a very liner fashion, and lacks a real spine, but full of some great anecdotes, and shines a light on one of cinema's quiet, under-recognized groundbreakers.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jun 3, 2011

The lack of personal detail can be frustrating. Yet it suits its subject's gentlemanly reserve.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 2, 2011

As captured by McCall, Cardiff has a palpable joie de vivre, an impish way with an anecdote and inventive solutions for capturing images.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | May 22, 2011

The unsurpassed work of cinematographer Jack Cardiff is gloriously featured in one of the best filmmaking documentaries ever made.

Full Review | May 13, 2011

Chiming in for this breezy tribute filled with tantalizing clips is a who's who of admirers, including Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, John Mills and Kim Hunter.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 13, 2011

Asked if movies were a "tragic" industry, Cardiff replies, "I think it's a nonsensical thing, job, to be in, because it's full of hypocrisy, hyperbole, just about everything you can think of." Yet his example demonstrates just how worthy it can be.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2011

McCall approaches Cardiff with something approaching awe, though his subject views his accomplishments with the good-natured humility befitting a proper English gentleman.

Full Review | Original Score: B | May 12, 2011

Director Alan Parker nicely describes the tightrope teeter of Cardiff's hothouse imagery: "It's great art, and then it will be kitsch, and then it will be art again." Or is he summing up cinema itself?

Full Review | May 11, 2011

Cameraman is filled with Cardiff's achingly beautiful work, from the furious violet moods of Black Narcissus (1947) and his ballet fantasia The Red Shoes (1948) to Sylvester Stallone's agonized poses in Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985).

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 10, 2011

This is strictly talking heads fare, broken up with movie clips, stills and home movies; fortunately, Jack Cardiff's ephemera are better than yours.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 29, 2011