Christopher Doyle
Christopher Doyle is an Australian-Hong Kong cinematographer who often works on Chinese language films. He has won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival, as well as AFI Award for cinematography, the Golden Horse awards (four times), and Hong Kong Film Award (six times). Doyle is an affiliate of the Hong Kong Society of Cinematographers. Doyle was born in Sydney, Australia in 1952. He left his native country on a Norwegian merchant ship at the age of eighteen, after which he took on a number of odd jobs including as a Kibbutz-nick cowboy in Israel, homeopathic doctor in Thailand, and “green agriculturalist” in India work. In the late seventies, Doyle was “re-birthed” as Du Ke Feng, which means “like the wind.” Following his time as a language student in Taiwan and having found work as a photographer, he was hired as a cinematographer on Edward Yang’s That Day, on the Beach in 1983.
Since his “birth in art,” Du Ke Feng has worked on over fifty Chinese-language films. He is best known for his collaborations with Wong Kar-Wai, including Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love and 2046 (the latter of which saw Doyle walking off set mid-way through production). He has collaborated with other Chinese filmmakers on projects including Temptress Moon, Hero, Happy Together, and Dumplings. As his "alter ego" Christopher Doyle he has made more than twenty in various other languages and film cultures, working as director of photography on Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho, Liberty Heights, Last Life in the Universe, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Paranoid Park, The Limits of Control.
He also wrote, shot, and directed Warsaw Dark, Away with Words starring Asano Tadanobu, and Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous, an experimental portrait of three generations of Hong Kong people.[5] He is currently filming The White Girl, another tribute to his adopted hometown of Hong Kong, with co-director Jenny Suen.
On May 26, 2017 Doyle was honored during the 70th Cannes Festival with the “Pierre Angénieux ExcelLens in Cinematography” award, in tribute to his rich and influential career. The ceremony was co-hosted by filmmaker Olivier Assayas and actress Juliette Binoche, among others.
Known For | Camera |
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Most Rating | 3.27 |
Birthday | 1952-05-02 |
Place of Birth | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Also Known As | Ho Fung To, Kefeng Du, Chris Doyle, 杜可風, 크리스토퍼 도일, 杜可风, |
1996
Comrades, Almost a Love Story
7.7/146
Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise Qiao a...
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Comrades, Almost a Love Story
1981
Idle Dream
0/0
A TV movie and part of groundbreaking Taiwan TV series “Eleven Women”
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Idle Dream
2011
Pinku Eiga: Inside the Pleasure Dome of Japanese Erotic Cinema
9/1
Documentary on one of the most famous branches of Japanese filmmaking, the erotic Pink film genre, known as Pinku Eiga, and the closely related Roman...
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Pinku Eiga: Inside the Pleasure Dome of Japanese Erotic Cinema
1998
Andromedia
5/15
After his daughter Mai is killed in an auto accident, a genius programmer recreates her in the form of a computer program called AI. His jealous broth...
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Andromedia
1989
Carry on Yakuza
0/0
Michael Chan plays Charlie Chan, a boxer who goes to Japan to take on a local hotshot in the ring. A gang of yakuzas pressure him to take a dive, but...
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Carry on Yakuza
2003
1:99 Shorts
6.3/3
Shorts made by 11 directors in order to fight against the SARS epidemy that occurred in China and Hong Kong in 2003. The shorts were produced by the I...
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1:99 Shorts
2010
Showtime
0/0
Shanghai, 2009. After four years of studying, a group of dance students are wished well by their teacher as they start rehearsals for their graduation...
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Showtime
2006
Twelve Twenty
5.5/2
Based on a short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, this short film tells the story of a man who falls in love with a woman he sees at the check-in coun...
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Twelve Twenty
2009
Behind the Blur
4/1
An insightful documentary about Thai cinema, which features a colourful and long running film history, yet struggles as the industry attempts to move...
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Behind the Blur
2001
Orientations: Chris Doyle - Stirred But Not Shaken
3/2
The life and work of Chris Doyle, the acclaimed Australian cinematographer who found regular work as the collaborator of maverick Hong Kong auteur Won...
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Orientations: Chris Doyle - Stirred But Not Shaken
1988
I Love Mary
0/0
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I Love Mary
1982
The Sexy Lady Driver
0/0
Centers around a beautiful female taxi driver.
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The Sexy Lady Driver
1997
Yesterday You, Yesterday Me
0/0
Bo finally reaches college, but he apparently still has some growing up to do as his struggles with the opposite sex continues.
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Yesterday You, Yesterday Me
1986
Omega Syndrome
4.2/6
An ex-GI's daughter is abducted by a gang of white supremacists. He calls on one of his former Army buddies, and together they set out to track down t...
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Omega Syndrome
2014
Christopher Doyle: Filming in the Neon World
7/2
"I feel like a piece of neon, I'm just a gas inside a tube." — 'Christopher Doyle: Filming in the Neon World' is part of NEONSIGNS.HK — an online exhi...
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M on the Bund
0/0
The last days of M on the Bund, the restaurant that reinvented fine-dining in Shanghai, and its maverick founder Michelle Garnaut. A remarkable three-...
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M on the Bund
1990
Family Day
7/1
Struggling to support a wife a son and his sick mother a kind-hearted man is forced to work the streets as a pickpocket.
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Family Day
2007
In the Mood for Doyle
4/2
Christopher Doyle is one of the best known and most acclaimed directors of photography in world cinema. Born in Australia, he sees himself as an Asian...
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In the Mood for Doyle
2016
Wind
0/0
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Wind
2006
Reflections of Lady in the Water
3.5/2
Explores the nature of creativity and collaboration on the making of this very unique story in an earnest and unexpectedly touching manner.
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Reflections of Lady in the Water
2006
McDull, the Alumni
5/4
In McDull, the Alumni, our protagonist has grown up. He is no longer the little boy who banters with his mates at school. How he wishes he could just...
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McDull, the Alumni
2010
A Moment in Time
0/0
Documentary about the experience of the Chinese in San Francisco's Chinatown, told through the films they loved. This retrospective film retells the i...
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A Moment in Time
2007
Paranoid Park
6.6/536
A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a brutal death in a skate park called "Paranoid Park".
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Paranoid Park
2008
Making Paranoid Park
0/0
Behind the scenes documentary of Gus Van Sant's "Paranoid Park." Felix Andrew: director, cinematographer, editor. Dane La Chiusa: titles and original...
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Making Paranoid Park
2001
Grit & Polish: Heroines from Hong Kong
0/0
Female characters in martial arts films from Hong Kong: the women who played them and the directors who wrote the scenarios and directed the films.
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Grit & Polish: Heroines from Hong Kong
2000
Psycho Path
6.7/3
Documentary on the making of Gus Van Sant's "Psycho."
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Psycho Path
2019
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
6.8/52
The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the hundreds of films that were produced in Hong Kong...
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Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
1981
The Land of the Brave
0/0
The "Lost Generation" is an obsolete term against the Land of the Brave, in which the younger generation awakens to the fact that their community and...
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Christopher Doyle in Conversation: Days of Being Wild
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Christopher Doyle in Conversation: Days of Being Wild
2021
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
6.8/76
An intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef became a world-renowned cultural icon. This unflinching look at Anthony Bourdain reverber...
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