Cinematographer Luigi Kuveiller died in Rome on January 10 2013.
Born in Rome on October 3, 1927, Luigi Kuveiller was a
noted Italian cinematographer during the 1960s and 1970s who made his first big
splash working with the seriously underrated Italian film director Elio Petri
on several of his films including the Academy award winning “A Citizen Above
Suspicion” (1970). He also lensed Dario Argento's ground breaking giallo “Deep
Red” (1975) and Lucio Fulci's notorious “New York Ripper” (1982) as well as
both of the Paul Morrissey/Andy Warhol produced “Dracula” (1974) and “Frankenstein”
(1973). He even worked with Billy Wilder on “Avanti!” (1972). Kuveiller never
earned the many accolades but his films almost always showed a polished
sophistication, full of kinetic camera movements and yet tastefully restrained
and always in the service of the director he worked with. Kuveiller has enjoyed
steady work in mostly Italian projects up to 2004. He was the cinematographer
on one Euro-western “A Man Called Sledge” directed by Vic Morrow and starring
James Garner.
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