Favorite Forgotten Films

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George La Fountaine, ASC

My Favorite Forgotten film has to be The Killing, Stanley Kubrick's 1956 caper film. Time magazine said Lucian Ballard's "camera watches the whole shoddy show with the keen eye of a terrier stalking a pack of rats." Kubrick propped up a flawed two million dollar race track robbery script with the best supporting cast in the business; Sterling Hayden, Marie Windsor, Jay C. Flippen, Elisha Cook Jr, Collen Gray, Vince Edwards, Ted de Corsia, Joe Sawyer and Tim Carey, then turned loose Lucien Ballard to do his stuff. The robbery is approached from each character's point of view and tied together with Ballard's camera creating a crime drama with enough twists and turns to rival Raymond Chandler.

Or was it Kubrick's Paths of Glory, featuring Georg Krause's exquisite photography...

Or Fellini's 1954 La Strada...

Or Gunnar Fischer's photography for Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal...

Or...