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Edward Lachman

Born March 31, 1948 · Morristown, New Jersey, USA (age 78)

Edward Lachman, A.S.C. is an American cinematographer and director. Lachman is mostly associated with the American independent film movement, and has served as director of photography on films by Todd Haynes, Wim Wenders, Steven Soderbergh, Sofia Coppola and Paul Schrader

Known For

The Virgin Suicides

The Virgin Suicides · 2000

The Virgin Suicides

MovieDramaRomance

A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.

Erin Brockovich

Erin Brockovich · 2000

Erin Brockovich

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. She starts investigating and soon exposes a monumental cover-up.

Dark Waters

Dark Waters · 2019

MovieDramaThriller

A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.

Carol

MovieRomanceDrama

In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

Ken Park

Ken Park · 2003

Teen skater Ken Park (nicknamed Krap Nek; his name spelled and pronounced backward) kills himself at a Visalia skate park; his death bookends the lives of four other young people who knew him: Shawn, the most conventional; Tate brims with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother; and Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim.

Sweet November

Sweet November · 2001

MovieDramaRomance

Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very different from the other women in his life. Nelson causes her to miss out on taking the test and later that day she tracks him down. One thing leads to another and Nelson ends up living with her through a November that will change his life forever.

Maria

MovieHistoryDrama

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.

Less Than Zero

Less Than Zero · 1987

MovieDramaCrime

A college freshman returns to Los Angeles for Christmas at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.

Filmography

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The Virgin Suicides

The Virgin Suicides · 2000

The Virgin Suicides

MovieDramaRomance

A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.

Director of Photography

Erin Brockovich

Erin Brockovich · 2000

Erin Brockovich

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. She starts investigating and soon exposes a monumental cover-up.

Director of Photography

Dark Waters

Dark Waters · 2019

MovieDramaThriller

A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.

Director of Photography

Carol

MovieRomanceDrama

In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

Director of Photography

Ken Park

Ken Park · 2003

Teen skater Ken Park (nicknamed Krap Nek; his name spelled and pronounced backward) kills himself at a Visalia skate park; his death bookends the lives of four other young people who knew him: Shawn, the most conventional; Tate brims with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother; and Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim.

Director of Photography

Sweet November

Sweet November · 2001

MovieDramaRomance

Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very different from the other women in his life. Nelson causes her to miss out on taking the test and later that day she tracks him down. One thing leads to another and Nelson ends up living with her through a November that will change his life forever.

Director of Photography

Maria

MovieHistoryDrama

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.

Director of Photography

Less Than Zero

Less Than Zero · 1987

MovieDramaCrime

A college freshman returns to Los Angeles for Christmas at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.

Director of Photography

Selena

MovieDramaMusic

In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young daughter is talented and begins performing with her at small venues. She finds success and falls for her guitarist, Chris Perez, who draws the ire of her father. Seeking mainstream stardom, Selena begins recording an English-language album which, tragically, she would never complete.

Director of Photography

Paradise: Love

Paradise: Love · 2012

On the beaches of Kenya they’re known as "Sugar Mamas" —European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation paradise, moving from beach to beach.

Director of Photography

I'm Not There

I'm Not There · 2007

MovieDramaMusic

Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.

Director of Photography

Desperately Seeking Susan

Desperately Seeking Susan · 1985

Desperately Seeking Susan

MovieComedyCrime

A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself and into a chaotic adventure of amnesia and self-discovery.

Director of Photography

S1m0ne

MovieScience FictionComedy

The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walks off the film set. Forced to think fast, the producer decides to digitally create an actress "Simone" to sub for the star — the first totally believable synthetic actress.

Director of Photography

Far from Heaven

Far from Heaven · 2002

Far from Heaven

MovieDramaRomance

In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.

Director of Photography

The Limey

The Limey · 1999

MovieCrimeDrama

The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Upon arrival, Wilson goes to task battling Valentine and an army of L.A.'s toughest criminals, hoping to find clues and piece together what happened. After surviving a near-death beating, getting thrown from a building and being chased down a dangerous mountain road, the Englishman decides to dole out some bodily harm of his own.

Director of Photography

The American Friend

The American Friend · 1977

The American Friend

MovieDramaThriller

Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.

Assistant Camera

Wonderstruck

Wonderstruck · 2017

The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.

Director of Photography

Catchfire

Catchfire · 1990

MovieDramaAction

A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to get her.

Director of Photography

The Lords of Flatbush

The Lords of Flatbush · 1974

The Lords of Flatbush

MovieDramaComedy

Set in 1958, the coming of age story follows four lower middle-class Brooklyn teenagers known as The Lords of Flatbush. The Lords chase girls, steal cars, shoot pool, get into street fights, and hang out at a local malt shop.

Director of Photography

Wiener-Dog

Wiener-Dog · 2016

MovieComedyDrama

A dachshund passes from oddball owner to oddball owner, whose radically dysfunctional lives are all impacted by the pooch.

Director of Photography

El Conde

El Conde · 2023

MovieFantasyComedy

After living for over two centuries, Augusto Pinochet is a vampire ready to die… but the vultures around him won't let him go without one last bite.

Director of Photography

Paradise: Faith

Paradise: Faith · 2013

Paradise: Faith

For Anna Maria, paradise lies with Jesus, and she devotes her time to door-to-door missionary work. One day after years of absence, her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, comes home—and soon prayers are replaced by fighting.

Director of Photography

Hounddog

Hounddog · 2008

MovieDramaMusic

A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.

Director of Photography

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues · 2022

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

MovieDocumentaryMusic

Never-before-heard personal recordings and archival footage tell the story of Louis Armstrong's life from his perspective. From musical phenom to civil rights activist to world-renowned artist, this illuminating film shows sides of Armstrong few have seen.

Director of Photography

Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce · 2011

Mildred Pierce depicts an overprotective, self-sacrificing mother during the Great Depression who finds herself separated from her husband, opening a restaurant of her own and falling in love with a man, all the while trying to earn her spoiled, narcissistic daughter's love and respect.

Director of Photography

Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | The Collaborators

Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | The Collaborators · 2013

Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | The Collaborators

SeriesDocumentary

From The Creators Project, a look at the collaborators behind Random Access Memories, the new album from Daft Punk.

Creator