Frederick Elmes

Frederick Elmes has served as cinematographer on some of the most acclaimed American movies of the past four decades, including Eraserhead, River’s Edge, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Broken Flowers, and Synecdoche, New York . The films in the Criterion Collection he shot include Night on Earth , The Ice Storm, and Ride with the Devil. In compiling his top ten Criterion list, Elmes chose those films, he says, “that influenced me most.”

Biography via Criterion.