"Reservoir Dogs" [1991]


               


Born: 19 December 1954, Wroclaw, Poland. Moved to Great Britain in 1980.

Education: National Film and Television School [NFTS], Beaconsfield, UK [1985-88].

Career: Became still ph and c.asst in a Polish film studio and doph during his stay in the army. Studied in Great Britain. Came to the USA as part of a Panavision-sponsored group of European filmmakers. Ph tv-doc's. Ph commercials dir by Allen Martinez, Joe Public [for Amazon], Simon Green, a.o. Ph music videos. Formed Leonidas Films Inc., Beverly Hills, with Timothy Cavanaugh. Appeared in the doc's 'Polscy operatorzy w Los Angeles' [1993, Pawel Hanczakowski; ph: Marek Beczek] & 'Pulp Fiction: The Facts' [2002]. Also active as director [see below].

Awards: As ph: BP Expo IFF 'Cinematography Award' [1992] for 'Honey and Venom'; BAFTA Film Award nom [1995] for 'Pulp Fiction'; Camerimage 'Golden Frog' nom [2000] for 'American Psycho'.

As dir: Fantasporto 'Critics' Award' [2003] for 'Hypercube: Cube 2'.



FILMS

1989

Catch [Hossein Amini] 16mm/c

1990

The Brooch Pin and the Sinful Clasp [Joanna Woodward] c; short/19m; prod NFTS

1990

Man from China [Zhang Tie Lin] c; short/45m

1990

Honey and Venom [Jun Mori] c; short/41m

1991

Revolver [Chester Dent] c; short/12m; prod NFTS

1991

Reservoir Dogs [Quentin Tarantino] s35/c; 2uc: Alan Sherrod

1992

Three of Hearts [Yurek Bogayevicz] c; addph: Steven Finestone

1992

Across the Moon/Mojo Flats/Tehachapi [Lisa Gottlieb] c; addph: Alan Sherrod

1993

Bank Robber [Nick Mead] p/c; 2uc: Alan Sherrod

1993

Sleep with Me [Rory Kelly] c; addph: Alan Sherrod

1993

Pulp Fiction [Quentin Tarantino] p/c; 2uc: Alan Sherrod

1994

Oleanna [David Mamet] c

1994

Hackers [Iain Softley] p/c; 2uc: Zoran Djordjevic

1994

Four Rooms [seg #4 'The Man from Hollywood' dir by Quentin Tarantino] c; other ph: Rodrigo Garcia (#1), Phil Parmet (#2) & Guillermo Navarro (#3)

1995

A Further Gesture/The Break [Robert Dornhelm] c; 2nd ph: Zoran Djordjevic; 2uc: Cían De Buitléar & John Sosenko

1996

Cousin Bette [Des McAnuff] p/c; 2uc: Zoran Djordjevic

1997

Stand-Ins [Harvey Keith] c

1997

Fait Accompli/VooDoo Dawn [Andrzej Sekula] c; cph: Alan Caudillo (+ 2uc)

1998

New Jersey Turnpikes [Bryan Buckley] c; or ph Toshiaki Ozawa

1999

American Psycho [Mary Harron] s35/c; addph: David Daniel & Toshiaki Ozawa

2001

Hypercube: Cube 2/Cube 2: Hypercube [Andrzej Sekula] c; 2uc: Paul Boucher

2002

Falling in Love in Pongo Ponga [James Woods] c; short/10m

2003

Nomad: The Two Worlds [Russell James] c; uwph: Pete Romano

2003

Double Blade [Alexi Tan] c; short/13m

2004

The Pleasure Drivers [Andrzej Sekula] s35/c; cph: Zoran Djordjevic

[Left] with actor Michael Madsen - "Vice"

2006

Vice [Raul Inglis] s35/c; 2uc: Mathias Herndl

2006

Vacancy [Nimród Antal] s35/c; 2uc: Riggs Murdock

2007

The Masking [Andrzej Sekula] pre-production

2007

The Celtic Knot [Andrzej Sekula] announced

2007

Gabe's Gambits [Andrzej Sekula] pre-production

2008

Armored [Nimród Antal] s35/c

TELEVISION

1995

Body Language [George Case] tvm

1995

Original Sins/Acts of Contrition [Jan Egleson] tvm

199?

The Grimleys [Declan Lowney (pilot), a.o.] 23-part series for ITV (Granada), 1997 (pilot) & 1999-2001

FILMS AS DIRECTOR

1997

Fait Accompli/VooDoo Dawn [+ cph] see Films

2001

Hypercube: Cube 2/Cube 2: Hypercube [+ ph] see Films

2003

Old Soldiers [+ scrpl/ph] status unknown

2003

Escobar [feature] status unknown

2004

Night Train [+ ph] first announced in 1998 with dir William Friedkin; scheduled for June 2004 start, but cancelled because the money fell through; see 2006

Dir "The Pleasure Drivers"

Ph "The Pleasure Drivers"

2004

The Pleasure Drivers [+ cph] see Films

2006

Night Train [+ ph] scheduled for April start; status unknown; see 2004

2007

The Masking [+ ph] pre-production; see Films

2007

The Celtic Knot [+ ph] announced; see Films

2007

Gabe's Gambits [+ ph] pre-production; see Films