Images to Infuriate Delacroix: Jack Cardiff, 1914-2009
Jack Cardiff, the supreme genius of Technicolor, has died in Kent, England, age 94. Cardiff said that if he hadn't become a filmmaker, he would have been a painter. With him dies another link to a film process that gave us images like this.
The people at Technicolor, wrote Michael Powell, had usually encountered filmmakers accustomed to black-and-white, …