Michael Ballhaus

Michael Ballhaus

Michael Ballhaus, A.S.C. (August 5, 1935 – April 12, 2017) was a German cinematographer who collaborated with directors such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Martin Scorsese, Mike Nichols, James L. Brooks, and Wolfgang Petersen. He was a member of both the Academy of Arts, Berlin, and the American Society of Cinematographers.

On screen

  • Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
  • Side by Side
  • The Cinema and its Double: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Despair' Revisited
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder's World on a Wire: Looking Ahead to Today
  • Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben
  • Notes on an American Film Director at Work
  • Cinematographer Style
  • Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'
  • Fassbinder in Hollywood
  • Fassbinder's Women
  • Boogie Nights
  • Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
  • I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
  • Visions of Light
  • Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies
  • Martin Scorsese Directs
  • Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
  • The Marriage of Maria Braun
  • Satan’s Brew
  • Martha

Behind the camera

  • In Berlin
  • Max Raabe: Heute Nacht Oder Nie - Live in Berlin

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