Arts documentaries with David Hockney, Bob Dylan, Robert Frost, John Hoyland to Joan Miro.
Feature films including The Hour of The Pig with Colin Firth to Poison Candy with John Hurt.
Television dramas: The Scarlet Pimpernel with Richard E Grant, Schalcken the Painter, A Question of Attribution with James Fox, Boulevard Haussmann by Alan Bennett with Alan Bates, Hostages with Kathy Burke and Colin Firth, The Advocate with Alfred Molina to Bluebeard’s Castle.
John directed Sister Wendy’s Grand Tour and won the RTS award for lighting and camera work in BBC’s ‘Cariani and the Courtesans’
I suspect 17th-century Dutch domestic interiors have never been shot with such fidelity to the work of Vermeer, de Hooch, and Dou as they are in this film, while its sinister black velvet darkness owes to Rembrandt and Schalcken himself.
The BFIon Shalcken the Painter 
The astonishing lighting by cameraman John Hooper successfully replicates not only the Dutch interiors so familiar from Vermeer, but also the candlelit chiaroscuro of Godfried Schalcken’s own paintings.
John Coulthart > Fuilletonon Shalken the Painter 
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