Why this filmmaker matters
Lou Lombardo has 0 titles cut in the Nutevio catalogue.
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Lou Lombardo has 0 titles cut in the Nutevio catalogue.
The recognisable elements are rewatchability, visual style, originality. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same eye, re-tuned for different registers. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is staged.
Lombardo set terms other filmmakers now work against: the structures, the pacing and the refusal to explain. Awards bodies have often been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
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Sam Peckinpah
Director
4 shared titles · The Wild Bunch

Robert Altman
Director
3 shared titles · The Long Goodbye

John Hughes
Director
3 shared titles · Uncle Buck

Strother Martin
Actor
2 shared titles · The Ballad of Cable Hogue

Cheech Marin
Actor
2 shared titles · Up in Smoke

Tommy Chong
Actor
2 shared titles · Up in Smoke
Phil Feldman
Producer
2 shared titles · The Wild Bunch

Walon Green
Screenplay
2 shared titles · The Wild Bunch

Lucien Ballard
Director of Photography
2 shared titles · The Wild Bunch

Norman Jewison
Director
2 shared titles · Moonstruck

Vilmos Zsigmond
Director of Photography
2 shared titles · The Long Goodbye

Lou Adler
Director
2 shared titles · Up in Smoke
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