PHILIPPE ROUSSELOT

With c.op/ph Carmen Cabana - © Michael Coate

Born: 4 September 1945, Briey, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France.

Education: École de Vaugirard, Paris, France [1964-66].

Career: Worked as loader and 1st c.asst for doph Néstor Almendros, a.o.

Directed 'The Serpent's Kiss/Le baiser du serpent' [1996; ph: Jean-François Robin].

Awards: As doph: 'César' Award [1982] & NSFC Award [1983] for 'Diva'; BAFTA Film Award nom [1986] for 'The Emerald Forest'; 'César' Award [1987] for 'Thérèse'; BSC Award [1987], 'Oscar' AA nom [1988], BAFTA Film Award nom [1988] & NSFC Award [1988] for 'Hope and Glory'; ASC Award nom [1989] & BSC Award nom [1989] for 'Dangerous Liaisons'; 'César' Award nom [1989], BAFTA Film Award nom [1990] & ASC Award nom [1990] for 'L'ours'; 'César' Award nom [1990] for 'Trop belle pour toi!'; 'Oscar' AA nom [1991] for 'Henry & June'; 'Oscar' AA [1993] & ASC Award nom [1993] for 'A River Runs Through It'; BSC Award [1994] & BAFTA Film Award [1995] for 'Interview with the Vampire'; 'César' Award [1995] for 'La reine Margot'; 5th Annual 'Hamilton Behind the Camera Award' [2007] for 'The Brave One', 'Lions for Lambs' & 'The Great Debaters'.

As dir: Cannes FF 'Palme d'or' [1997] for 'The Serpent's Kiss';

Philippe Rousselot: 'My earliest influences occurred long before I picked up a movie camera. I was 11 years old when I first saw the films of Jean Cocteau and they were so moving, emotionally, visually, and intellectually. They were complete magic to me. Of course later, when I began working, I was influenced by the people I worked with: I was a loader for Nestor Almendros and that had a huge influence. Also a woman named Sara Moon, who I worked with in commercials and is a superb still photographer. I don't know if it's typical, but I saw a lot of great films at an early age - Bergman, Fellini, the German expressionists - they all contributed to my education.' [From interview with David Geffner in 'MovieMaker', issue #29.]

FILMS

1969	She Flies [John Edwards] c; comm doc/13m; cph: Jean-François Robin, Bernard Gonner, a.o.; about the first flight of the supersonic Concorde
1969	Le clair de terre/Earth Light [Guy Gilles] c; cph: Guy Gilles
1970	Un couple d'artistes [Bruno Gantillon] c; short/13m; cph: Jean Monsigny & Jean-François Robin
1971	Côté cour, côté champs [Guy Gilles] c; short/13m
1972	Le lapin chasseur [Thomas Lehestre] c; short/16m; cph: Ch. Bachman & M. Ferrand
1972	Absences répétées [Guy Gilles] c
1972	Pour Clémence [Charles Belmont] c
1972	La raison du plus fou [Raymond Devos & François Reichenbach] c; cph: Daniel Cardot, Christian Odasso & Gérard Taverna
1973	Histoires d'A [Charles Belmont & Marielle Issartel] 16mm-35bu/b&w; doc/85m
1973	Il pleut toujours où c'est mouillé [Jean-Daniel Simon] c
1975	Cyrus le violoncelliste [Fabrice Cazeneuve] c; short/16m
1975	Le couple témoin/The Guinea Pig Couple [William Klein] c; cph: William Klein
1976	L'affiche rouge/The Red Poster [Frank Cassenti] c
1976	Paradiso [Christian Bricout] c
1976	Pauline et l'ordinateur [Francis Fehr] 16mm/c; cph: Pierre Dupouey
1976	Adom, ou Le sang d'Abel [Gérard Myriam Benhamou] c
1976	Je veux mourir dans la patrie de Jean-Paul Sartre [Mosco Boucault] 16mm/b&w; short/26m
1977	Diabolo menthe/Peppermint Soda [Diane Kurys] c
1978	Vu de l'extérieur [Patrice Noïa] b&w; short/13m
1978	Les chemins de l'exil, ou Les dernières années de Jean-Jacques Rousseau/The Roads of Exile [Claude Goretta] c
1978	La drôlesse/The Hussy [Jacques Doillon] c
1979	Cocktail Molotov [Diane Kurys] c
1979	Bonheur toi-même [Claude Goretta] c
1980	Diva [Jean-Jacques Beineix] c
1980	La provinciale/The Girl from Lorraine [Claude Goretta] c; cph: Dominique Brenguier
1980	Vive la mariée [Patrice Noïa] 16mm/c; short/23m
1981	La gueule du loup [Michel Léviant] c
1981	Guy de Maupassant [Michel Drach] c
1982	Thieves After Dark/Les voleurs de la nuit [Samuel Fuller] c
1982	La lune dans le caniveau/The Moon in the Gutter [Jean-Jacques Beineix] p/c
1983	Dream One/Nemo [Arnaud Sélignac] p/b&w-c
1983	Des terroristes à la retraite [Mosco Boucault] 16mm/b&w-c; doc/83m; cph: Jean Orjollet, Eduardo Serra, Carlo Varini, François Catonné, a.o.; originally planned as a tv-doc (1985)
1984	End of the Rainbow [Laszlo Papas] c; short/14m; cph: Marino Colmano
1984	The Emerald Forest [John Boorman] p/c; 2uc: Lucio Kodato
1984	Night Magic [Lewis Furey] p/c
1985	Thérèse [Alain Cavalier] c
1986	L'ours/The Bear [Jean-Jacques Annaud] p (35mm & 70bu)/c; 2uc: Arnaud Duboisberanger
1987	Hope and Glory [John Boorman] c; addph: John Harris
1988	Trop belle pour toi!/Too Beautiful for You [Bertrand Blier] p/c
1988	Dangerous Liaisons [Stephen Frears] c
1989	We're No Angels [Neil Jordan] p/c; 2uc: Jim Devis; uwph: Arthur Wooster & Pete Romano
1989	Henry & June [Philip Kaufman] c
1990	The Miracle [Neil Jordan] c; addph: James Devis
1990	Merci la vie [Bertrand Blier] b&w-c
1991	A River Runs Through It [Robert Redford] c; addph: Peter Pilafian; 2uc: Paul Ryan
1992	Sommersby [Jon Amiel] p/c
1992	Flesh and Bone [Steve Kloves] c
1993	La reine Margot/Queen Margot [Patrice Chéreau] c
1993	Interview with the Vampire [: The Vampire Chronicles] [Neil Jordan] c; 2uc: James Devis; vfx ph: Rob Legato
1994	Mary Reilly [Stephen Frears] c

[Right] with dir Milos Forman

"The People vs. Larry Flynt"

1996	The People vs. Larry Flynt [Milos Forman] p/c
1998	Instinct [Jon Turteltaub] p/c; aph: David B. Nowell
1998	In and Out of Fashion [William Klein] b&w-c; doc/88m; cph: Jean Boffety, Pierre Lhomme, Gérard de Battista & Jean-Noël Delamare
1998	Random Hearts [Sydney Pollack] c; 2uc: David M. Dunlap
1999	Remember the Titans [Boaz Yakin] p/c; 2uc: Alexander Witt
2000	The Tailor of Panama [John Boorman] p/c; aph: John Trapman
2000	Planet of the Apes [Tim Burton] p/c; addph: Paul Hughen; 2uc: Jonathan Taylor
2001	Antwone Fisher [Denzel Washington] p/c
2003	Big Fish [Tim Burton] c

[Right] with dir Francis Lawrence - "Constantine"

2003	Constantine [Francis Lawrence] s35/c; 2uc: Neal Norton; addph: Jeff Cutter; aph: Hans Bjerno; vfx ph: Christopher Warren
2004	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory [Tim Burton] s35-to-35mm/c; 2uc: Jonathan Taylor; Atlanta ph: Neal Norton; model unit ph: Nigel Stone; also IMAX 70mm version
*2005*	*X-Men: The Last Stand/X-Men 3* [Brett Ratner] left prod and was replaced by Dante Spinotti
2006	The Brave One [Neil Jordan] p/c; aph: Phil Pastuhov
2007	Lions for Lambs [Robert Redford] p/c; addph: Dan Mindel & Phil Méheux
2007	The Great Debaters [Denzel Washington] p/c; aph: Gary Tolbert
2008	Peacock [Michael Lander] s35-to-35mm/c; 2nd doph: Anthony Arendt
2008	Sherlock Holmes [Guy Ritchie] s35+HD+Silicon Imaging-to-35mm/c; 2uc: Alan Stewart; 2uc New York: Neal Norton; aph UK: Adam Dale
2009	The Loop [Margaret Whitton] c
2010	Larry Crowne [Tom Hanks] c; 2uc: Anthony Arendt
2010	Untitled Sherlock Holmes Sequel [Guy Ritchie] c; 2uc + vfx ph: Alan Stewart; aph: Adam Dale

TELEVISION

Ph ep from the series 'Zoom', '16 millions de jeunes' & 'Dim, dam, dom'.
1978	Il était un musicien [ep #6 'Monsieur Ravel' dir by Guy Gilles & #8 'Monsieur Albeniz' dir by Claude Lallemand] 13-part series, 1978-79

FILMS AS CAMERA ASSISTANT/OPERATOR

1967	Marie pour mémoire [Philippe Garrel] ?; ph: Michel Fournier
1968	Le révélateur [Philippe Garrel] c.op; ph: Michel Fournier
1969	Ma nuit chez Maud/My Night at Maud's [Eric Rohmer] c.asst; ph: Néstor Almendros
1970	Le genou de Claire/Claire's Knee [Eric Rohmer] co-c.asst; ph: Néstor Almendros
1972	L'amour l'après-midi/Chloé in the Afternoon/Love in the Afternoon [Eric Rohmer] co-c.asst; ph: Néstor Almendros
1972	What a Flash! [Jean-Michel Barjol] co-c.op; ph: Renan Pollès
1973	Femmes au soleil [Liliane Dreyfus] co-c.asst; ph: Néstor Almendros
1974	Les naufragés de l'île de la Tortue [Jacques Rozier] co-c.op; ph: Colin Mounier