Michael Ballhaus

Camera · Born 1935-08-05 · Berlin, Germany

Biography

Michael Ballhaus, A.S.C. (August 5, 1935 – April 12, 2017) was a German cinematographer who collaborated with directors such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Martin Scorsese, Mike Nichols, James L. Brooks, and Wolfgang Petersen. He was a member of both the Academy of Arts, Berlin, and the American Society of Cinematographers.

Known for

• Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life (2017)
• Side by Side (2012)
• The Cinema and its Double: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Despair' Revisited (2011)
• Rainer Werner Fassbinder's World on a Wire: Looking Ahead to Today (2010)
• Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte (2008)
• Mister Karl (2008)
• Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben (2008)
• Notes on an American Film Director at Work (2008)
• Cinematographer Style (2006)
• Who is Helene Schwarz? (2005)
• Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas' (2004)
• Fassbinder in Hollywood (2002)
• Starbuck Holger Meins (2002)
• Fassbinder's Women (2000)
• Boogie Nights (1997)
• Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence' (1993)
• I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me (1992)
• Visions of Light (1992)
• Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies (1992)
• Martin Scorsese Directs (1990)
• Filmarbeit mit Douglas Sirk (1987)
• Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’ (1986)
• The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
• Little Godard (1978)