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CINEMATOGRAPHER · BORN 1970 · IRELAND

Robbie Ryan

Handheld naturalism and wide-angle period strangeness.

Born
1970
Country
Ireland
Field
Cinematographer
Robbie Ryan
Portrait: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0

KNOWN FOR

  1. 2018The Favourite
  2. 2023Poor Things

WHY THEY MATTER

Academy Award nominations for The Favourite and Poor Things; more than 106 film projects with directors including Andrea Arnold, Ken Loach and Yorgos Lanthimos.

THE LIFE

Ryan was born in Sandymount, Dublin, decided at fourteen to become a cinematographer and graduated from the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology. He is a frequent collaborator of Andrea Arnold, on Wasp, Red Road and Fish Tank, and has also worked with Sally Potter, Stephen Frears, Ken Loach, Noah Baumbach and Mike Mills. His films include Philomena and Slow West. For Yorgos Lanthimos he shot The Favourite and Poor Things, both nominated for the Academy Award.

Source: Wikipedia

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Formal, disciplined compositions of Fifth Generation cinema.

Raise the Red Lantern, 1991Source: Wikipedia

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Helene Louvart

Intimate, textured film naturalism for European and international directors.

Happy as Lazzaro, 2018Source: Wikipedia