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Ian Baker is a Director of Photography and Cinematography Australien born on 1947 at Melbourne (Australie)
Ian Baker is an Australian cinematographer.
He was born in Melbourne in 1947. He studied Sculpture and Painting at Fine Art School and Swinburne College of Advanced Education(now the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA)).
And he got a job as runner on commercials for Fred Schepisi's prod company 'Film House'. So he spent much of his career shooting the films of Schepisi.
Suit à ce jour une vingtaine d'autres films (australiens, américains, britanniques ou en coproduction), dont Plenty (1985, avec Meryl Streep et Charles Dance), La Maison Russie (1990, avec Sean Connery et Michelle Pfeiffer), Une si belle famille (2003, avec Michael et Kirk Douglas) et Lessons in Love (2013, avec Clive Owen et Juliette Binoche) du même Fred Schepisi, ou encore La Reine des damnés de Michael Rymer (2002, avec Aaliyah et Stuart Townsend).
Pour la télévision, à ce jour, Ian Baker est directeur de la photographie sur le téléfilm Le Soleil en plein cœur de Simon Wincer (1986, avec Linda Evans et Jack Thompson) et la mini-série Empire Falls de Fred Schepisi (2005, avec Ed Harris et Helen Hunt).
(2007)
(Director of Photography)
(2002)
(Director of Photography)
(1988)
(Director of Photography)
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He was born in Melbourne in 1947. He studied Sculpture and Painting at Fine Art School and Swinburne College of Advanced Education(now the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA)).
And he got a job as runner on commercials for Fred Schepisi's prod company 'Film House'. So he spent much of his career shooting the films of Schepisi.
Biography
Au début des années 1970, Ian Baker rencontre le réalisateur australien Fred Schepisi, dont il devient le chef opérateur quasi attitré, depuis The Devil's Playground (1976, avec Nick Tate et Jonathan Hardy), son deuxième film à ce poste (le premier étant sorti en 1971).Suit à ce jour une vingtaine d'autres films (australiens, américains, britanniques ou en coproduction), dont Plenty (1985, avec Meryl Streep et Charles Dance), La Maison Russie (1990, avec Sean Connery et Michelle Pfeiffer), Une si belle famille (2003, avec Michael et Kirk Douglas) et Lessons in Love (2013, avec Clive Owen et Juliette Binoche) du même Fred Schepisi, ou encore La Reine des damnés de Michael Rymer (2002, avec Aaliyah et Stuart Townsend).
Pour la télévision, à ce jour, Ian Baker est directeur de la photographie sur le téléfilm Le Soleil en plein cœur de Simon Wincer (1986, avec Linda Evans et Jack Thompson) et la mini-série Empire Falls de Fred Schepisi (2005, avec Ed Harris et Helen Hunt).
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Words and Pictures (2014)
, 1h51Directed by Fred Schepisi
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about education
Actors Clive Owen, Juliette Binoche, Keegan Connor Tracy, Bruce Davison, Amy Brenneman, Valerie Tian
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65%
Croyden is an upscale college preparatory school in Maine that hires teachers for their advanced courses who are accomplished professionals.
The Eye of the Storm (2011)
, 1h54Directed by Fred Schepisi
Origin Australie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Geoffrey Rush, Charlotte Rampling, Judy Davis, Robyn Nevin, Helen Morse, Colin Friels
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59%
In the Sydney suburb of Centennial Park, a dying matriarch, Elizabeth Hunter (Rampling) is attended to by two nurses, a housekeeper and her two adult children (Rush and Davis). Despite her deteriorating health, Elizabeth continues to wield considerable control over her affairs and those around her.
Evan Almighty (2007)
, 1h36Directed by Tom Shadyac
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about families, Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism, Disaster films
Actors Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham, John Goodman, Harve Presnell, John Michael Higgins
Roles Director of Photography
Rating54%
Newly elected to Congress, former local television news reporter Evan Baxter (Steve Carell) leaves his hometown of Buffalo, New York and moves to suburban northern Virginia, where his congressional campaign declares that he will change the world. Evan prays to God (Morgan Freeman) to give him this opportunity. On the other hand, his wife, Joan (Lauren Graham), expresses her concern about the new location and prays that she, Evan, and their three sons (Jimmy Bennett, Graham Phillips, and Johnny Simmons) will be closer together as a family. On the first day of his job, Evan is given a prime office space, where he is accompanied by his three congressional staffers, Rita, Marty, and Eugene (Wanda Sykes, Jonah Hill, John Michael Higgins), and invited to co-sponsor the Public Land Act bill with his boss, Chuck Long (John Goodman).
Empire Falls (TV miniseries) (2005)
, 4hDirected by Fred Schepisi
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Ed Harris, Helen Hunt, Paul Newman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joanne Woodward, Robin Wright
Roles Director of Photography
Rating72%
Set in the small, decaying, and nearly bankrupt town of Empire Falls, Maine, this is the story of Miles Roby, the unassuming manager of the Empire Grill, who has spent his entire life in the town.
It Runs in the Family (2003)
, 1h49Directed by Fred Schepisi
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about families
Actors Kirk Douglas, Cameron Douglas, Diana Douglas, Rory Culkin, Bernadette Peters, Michael Douglas
Roles Director of Photography
Rating55%
The story involves a highly successful New York City family, each with its set of problems, and highlights the difficulties of the father-son relationship. Mitchell Gromberg is trying to deal with health problems resulting from a stroke. (Kirk Douglas himself suffered a stroke in 1996.) His son, Alex, works as a lawyer in the firm that his father founded, but is questioning the usefulness of his work and his place in the family. Alex's son, Asher, does not take college seriously and seems lost. The youngest son Eli, while extremely intelligent, is entering a difficult pre-adolescent time, while being socially awkward.
Japanese Story (2003)
, 1h45Directed by Sue Brooks
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Toni Collette, Lynette Curran, Reg Evans, Justine Clarke, John Howard
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67%
Sandy Edwards (played by Toni Collette) is a director in a company that designs geological software in Perth, Western Australia. Her business partner manipulates her into agreeing to act as a guide for a Japanese businessman visiting mines in the Pilbara desert, in hopes that he will purchase the software. When Hiromitsu Tachibana (Gotaro Tsunashima) arrives, he treats Sandy like a chauffeur, and he seems more intent on self-discovery in the wilderness than on buying computer software. At first, Sandy is angered by his reserved, demanding demeanor. On their first journey into the desert, Hiromitsu, feeling insecure, talks more on his phone with friends in Japan than he does to Sandy. He also insists that she drive farther than planned. The terrain proves too much for the pair's vehicle, which becomes bogged down in the sand. After a series of desperate attempts to release the vehicle, including digging a dead man anchor, their winch burns out. Sandy wants to use Hiromitsu's phone to call people who can rescue them, but Hiromitsu refuses. This forces them to spend the night stranded together. The next day, Hiromitsu, conscious that his refusal had placed them in danger, wakes up much earlier than Sandy and builds a track of sticks over which they can drive out of the sand. The maneuver is successful. Now that they are on the road again, the ice breaks and a friendship starts between them that, in isolated surroundings uninterrupted by their work, grows quickly and honestly. Later, at a motel, they have sex. Only after does Sandy learn that Hiromitsu has a wife and children in Japan.
Queen of the Damned (2002)
, 1h41Directed by Michael Rymer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Vampires in film
Actors Aaliyah, Stuart Townsend, Marguerite Moreau, Paul McGann, Vincent Pérez, Lena Olin
Roles Director of Photography
Rating53%
Vampire Lestat is awakened from decades of slumber by the sound of a heavy metal band which he proceeds to take over as the lead singer. Achieving international success and planning a massive live concert, Lestat is approached by Marius, and warned that the vampires of the world will not tolerate his flamboyant public profile.
Fierce Creatures (1997)
, 1h33Directed by Robert Young, Fred Schepisi, Roger Young
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about animals
Actors Jamie Lee Curtis, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Robert Lindsay, Ronnie Corbett
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
The film opens with Willa Weston (Jamie Lee Curtis) arriving in Atlanta to take a high ranking position in a company recently acquired by Octopus Inc.'s owner, Rod McCain (Kevin Kline). After meeting his son, vice president of marketing Vince McCain (also played by Kline), and Rod's assistant Neville, Willa is told by McCain that he has already sold the company where she was to work. Now without a job, Willa agrees to run another recent acquisition, Marwood Zoo, in an attempt to create a business model that can be used for multiple zoos in the future.
The Chamber (1996)
, 1h53Directed by James Foley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Chris O'Donnell, Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway, Lela Rochon, Robert Prosky, Raymond J. Barry
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%
Having survived the hatred and bigotry that was his Klansman grandfather Sam Cayhall's (Hackman) only legacy, young attorney Adam Hall (O'Donnell) seeks to appeal the old man's death sentence for the murder of two Jewish children 30 years ago. Only 28 days before Cayhall is to be executed, Adam meets his grandfather for the first time in the Mississippi State Penitentiary which has held him since his conviction in 1980. The meeting is predictably tense when the educated, young Mr. "Hall" confronts his venom-spewing elder, Mr. "Cayhall" about the murders. The next day, headlines run proclaiming Adam the grandson who has come to the state to save his grandfather, the infamous Ku Klux Klan bomber.
I.Q. (1994)
, 1h40Directed by Fred Schepisi
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan, Walter Matthau, Lou Jacobi, Stephen Fry, Gene Saks
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
An amiable garage mechanic, Ed Walters (Tim Robbins), meets Catherine Boyd (Meg Ryan), a brilliant Princeton University mathematics doctoral candidate, as she comes into the garage, accompanied by her stiff and fussy English fiancé, experimental psychology professor James Moreland (Stephen Fry). There is an immediate connection, but she refuses to acknowledge it. Finding a watch she left at the garage, Ed travels to her address and finds himself face to face with Albert Einstein (Walter Matthau), who is Catherine's uncle.
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
, 1h52Directed by Fred Schepisi
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Stockard Channing, Will Smith, Donald Sutherland, Ian McKellen, Mary Beth Hurt, Heather Graham
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67%
Fifth Avenue socialite Ouisa Kittredge (Stockard Channing) and her art dealer husband Flan (Donald Sutherland), are parents of "two at Harvard and one at Groton". But the narrow world inhabited by the Kittredges and their public status as people interested in the arts make them easy prey for Paul (Will Smith). Paul is a skillful con-artist, who mysteriously appears at their door one night, injured and bleeding, claiming to be a close college friend of their Ivy League kids, as well as the son of Sidney Poitier. Ouisa and Flan are much impressed by Paul's fine taste, keen wit, articulate literary expositions and surprising culinary skill. His appealing facade soon has the Kittredges putting him up, lending him money and taking satisfaction in his praise for their posh lifestyle. Paul's scheme continues until he brings home a hustler, and his actual indigence is revealed. The shocked Kittredges kick him out when it is revealed that they are but the most recent victims of the duplicity with which Paul has charmed his way into many upper-crust homes along the Upper East Side. Paul's schemes become highbrow legend – anecdotal accounts of which are bantered about at their cocktail parties. In the end, Paul has a profound effect on the many individuals who encounter him, linking them in their shared experience.
Mr. Baseball (1992)
, 1h48Directed by Fred Schepisi
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Baseball films
Actors Tom Selleck, Ken Takakura, Dennis Haysbert, Kōsuke Toyohara, Jun Hamamura, Takanobu Hozumi
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59%
Jack Elliot is an aging American baseball player unsuspectingly put on the trading block during Spring Training by the New York Yankees in favor of "rookie phenom" first baseman Ricky Davis (played by Hall of Famer Frank Thomas), and there's only one taker: the Nagoya Chunichi Dragons of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
Everybody Wins (1990)
, 1h37Directed by Karel Reisz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Debra Winger, Nick Nolte, Will Patton, Jack Warden, Judith Ivey, Kathleen Wilhoite
Roles Director of Photography
Rating50%
A prominent doctor from New England has been murdered, and his young nephew has been convicted for the crime. A seductive, possibly unstable woman named Angela Crispini persuades a private investigator, Tom O'Toole, to look into the case. She claims that the youth is innocent and that "everybody" knows who the real killer is.
The Russia House (1990)
, 2h2Directed by Fred Schepisi
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, John Mahoney, J. T. Walsh
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%
Bartholomew "Barley" Scott Blair (Sean Connery), the head of a British publishing firm, is on a business trip to Moscow. He attends a writers' retreat near Peredelkino where he speaks of an inevitable New World Order and an end to tensions with the West. Attentively listening is a man called Dante (Goethe in the novel) (Klaus Maria Brandauer), who wants to be convinced that Barley means what he says. It transpires that Dante is in fact a renowned physicist who has secretly written a manuscript detailing the Soviet Union's nuclear missile capabilities.
The Punisher (1989)
, 1h29Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Mafia films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Punisher films, Superhero films, Yakuza films, Super-héros inspiré de comics, Gangster films
Actors Dolph Lundgren, Louis Gossett Jr., Jeroen Krabbé, Kim Miyori, Bryan Marshall, Nancy Everhard
Roles Director of Photography
Rating56%
Frank Castle is the city's most wanted, and most mysterious, vigilante, known as "The Punisher". He has killed 125 criminals in the past five years. An ex-police officer, Castle's family was murdered in a mob hit, in which Castle was also thought to have perished. This combined with Castle's furtive methods of attack have made the Punisher's identity a mystery to the general public. Living in the sewers and waging a one-man war against organized crime, his only friend is an old alcoholic named Shake, a former stage actor who speaks in rhyme for reasons unexplained. Now legally declared dead, Castle strikes back from beyond the grave, killing mobsters wherever he can find them. Due to his war against them, the Mafia families have weakened, forcing one of the family leaders, Gianni Franco, to come out of retirement. Franco has a plan to unify the families. This, however, has attracted the attention of the Yakuza, Asia's most powerful crime syndicate. Led by Lady Tanaka, the Yakuza decide to take over the Mafia families and all of their interests. In order to sway the mobsters to their cause, they kidnap their children and hold them for ransom.