Ellen Kuras

Also Credited As:

Ellen M Kuras
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Biography

She is known for her intense work style, her insistence on interpreting the event in each scene through her camera and her use of grainy film stocks.

Raised in New Jersey, Kuras was studying Egyptology at Brown when she took a photography course at the nearby Rhode Island School of Design and became hooked. A Fullbright scholarship to Romania fell through, and when she couldn't study at the Lodz Film School in Poland, she went to Paris. …

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Job Title

Actor, Director, Producer, Writer, Production Management, Camera, Film & Tape, Sound, Other

Born

July 10, 1959

LATEST CREDITS

No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos

Actor

Women on Top: Hollywood and Power

Herself

Side by Side

Herself

Cinematographer Style

Actor

The Betrayal

Director, Producer, Screenplay, Cinematographer

Histoires d'Amerique

Assistant Director

Danger: Kids at Work

Director of Photography

The Mod Squad

Director of Photography

A Huey P. Newton Story

Director of Photography

Bamboozled

Director of Photography

Postcards from America

Director of Photography

Lou Reed's Berlin

Cinematographer

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Director of Photography

Away We Go

Director of Photography

Analyze That

Director of Photography

Coffee and Cigarettes

Director of Photography ("Renee" and "No Problem" )

The Ballad of Jack and Rose

Director of Photography

Unzipped

cinematography

Summer of Sam

Director of Photography

Be Kind Rewind

Director of Photography

Neil Young: Heart of Gold

Director of Photography

A Century of Women

Director of Photography