Janusz Kaminski: Lincoln

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2012

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Janusz Kaminski talks about his thirteenth collaboration with director Steven Spielberg, Lincoln.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.
0:15.4	Welcome to The Treatment, which you can also hear at KCRW.com.
0:19.4	My guest, cinematographer Januszkiminski, has shot
0:22.1	13 films with Steven Spielberg? Correct. Yes, 13. I get, I got that right. Going from
0:27.3	Schindler's List to AI to one of my favorites that you shot with him, a minority report. I really
0:33.1	love the way that movie looks to his newest Lincoln, but you work with other filmmakers as well.
0:42.3	You worked with Judapital on funny people people we won two Oscars for saving private Ryan and Schindler's list I love to talk to you but now we're out of time because I went over all
0:45.3	your credits we have nothing like okay goodbye thank you great being here and goodbye but we were
0:51.1	talking just before we got started you got you moved to the States and lived in Chicago for a long time.
0:55.8	How do you end up there from?
0:56.9	Well, this is a very kind of interesting story.
0:58.5	I left Poland in 1980 as a part of the socialist amateur filmmaking club.
1:02.9	And I went to Greece to make a little documentary there.
1:06.3	And as we were traveling through Eastern Europe, parts of the Eastern Europe,
1:10.1	and as we're entering the borders with Greece, we're getting
1:14.4	tremendous enthusiastic responses from the border
1:18.5	agents, simply because Poland started rebelling against
1:22.1	the government. This is 1980. The first strike
1:24.7	started the first... The time that Andre Writers were
1:26.9	acknowledged great films.
1:28.0	Correct.
1:28.9	The Solidarity movement became more prevailing, so we were getting the great support from
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