Australian-Hongkonger cinematographer (born 1952)
Christopher Doyle
, also known as
Du K?f?ng
(Mandarin) or
Dou Ho-Fung
(Cantonese)
[1]
(
traditional Chinese
:
杜可風
;
simplified Chinese
:
杜可?
) (born 2 May 1952) is an Australian-Hong Kong
cinematographer
. He has worked on over fifty Chinese-language films, being best known for his collaborations with
Wong Kar-wai
in
Chungking Express
,
Happy Together
,
In the Mood for Love
and
2046
. Doyle is also known for other films such as
Temptress Moon
,
Hero
,
Dumplings
, and
Psycho
. He has won awards at the
Cannes Film Festival
and
Venice Film Festival
, as well as the
AFI Award
for cinematography, the
Golden Horse
award (four times), and the
Hong Kong Film Award
(six times).
Early life
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Doyle was born in
Sydney
,
Australia
, in 1952. He left his native country on a Norwegian merchant ship at the age of eighteen. Doyle arrived in Taiwan for the first time in the 1970s, while his ship was docked in
Keelung Harbor
. Doyle met
Stan Lai
and Ding Nai-chu at Idea House, a restaurant in Taipei.
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Career
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While living in other countries, he took on several odd jobs, such as being an oil driller in India, a cow herder in Israel, and a doctor of Chinese medicine in Thailand.
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In the late seventies, Doyle took an interest in Chinese culture and received the Chinese name Du K?f?ng, which translates to "like the wind".
[4]
After language studies in Taiwan, he started working as a photographer. A couple of years later, he became a cinematographer, working with Taiwanese director
Edward Yang
on the 1983 film
That Day, on the Beach
.
[5]
Doyle has worked on over 50 Chinese-language films. He is best known for his collaborations with
Wong Kar-wai
in
Chungking Express
,
Fallen Angels
,
Happy Together
,
In the Mood for Love
and
2046
. He has collaborated with other Chinese filmmakers on projects including
Temptress Moon
,
Hero
and
Dumplings
. He has also made more than 20 films in various other languages, working as director of photography on Gus Van Sant's remake of
Psycho
,
Liberty Heights
,
Last Life in the Universe
,
Rabbit-Proof Fence
,
Paranoid Park
, and
The Limits of Control
, among others.
He also wrote, shot, and directed
Warsaw Dark
,
Away with Words
starring
Asano Tadanobu
, and
Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous
, an experimental portrait of three generations of Hong Kong people.
[6]
He co-directed
The White Girl
with
Jenny Suen
.
Filmography
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Cinematographer
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Feature films
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Short films
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Television
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Documentary works
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Film
Short film
Year
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Director
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Notes
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2019
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Cuba
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Peter H. Chan
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With Peter H. Chan and Justin Henning
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Television
Director
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Awards and nominations
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On 26 May 2017, Doyle was honoured during the 70th Cannes Festival with the “
Pierre Angenieux
ExcelLens in Cinematography” award, in tribute to his successful and influential career.
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Bibliography
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See also
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References
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Opalyn Mok,
"10 things about: Christopher Doyle, cinematographer extraordinaire"
Archived
3 February 2016 at the
Wayback Machine
,
Malay Mail
, 7 December 2014.
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Teng, Sue-feng (December 1995).
"The hottest lens in the east--cinematographer Christopher Doyle"
.
Taiwan Panorama
. Retrieved
21 August
2021
.
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"Christopher Doyle"
.
christopherdoylefilm.com
.
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Anderson, Ariston (11 November 2016).
"Turin Film Fest to Fete Wong Kar Wai Innovator Christopher Doyle"
.
The Hollywood Reporter
.
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Godfrey, Alex; Doyle, Christopher (24 April 2015).
"Interview ? Christopher Doyle: a legend in his own Y-fronts"
.
The Guardian
.
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Wen, Philip (27 September 2015).
"Australian filmmaker Christopher Doyle films Hong Kong's 'umbrella revolution'
"
.
The Sydney Morning Herald
.
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Christopher Doyle
at Rossi Rossi.
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"In the Mood for Love"
, Festival de Cannes, 2000.
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Ali Naderzad,
"CANNES FESTIVAL, Christopher Doyle gets Excellence in Cinematography award"
,
Screen Comment
, 25 May 2017.
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