Edward Lachman

Edward Lachman

1948-03-31 Morristown, New Jersey, USA 86 Credits

Biography

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

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Maria

Maria

2024

Director of Photography

6.5
Directing

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.

El Conde

El Conde

2023

Director of Photography

6.2
Directing

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.

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

2022

Director of Photography

6.6
Directing

An intimate and revealing look at the world-changing musician, presented through a lens of archival footage and never-before-heard home recordings and...

The Velvet Underground

The Velvet Underground

2021

Director of Photography

6.9
Directing

Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era’s avant-garde spirit by Todd Haynes...

Wim Wenders, Desperado

Wim Wenders, Desperado

2020

as Self

7.7
Acting

"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New German...

Dark Waters

Dark Waters

2019

Director of Photography

7.5
Directing

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 pr...

Revisiting The Virgin Suicides

Revisiting The Virgin Suicides

2018

as Self

8.5
Acting

A program featuring director Sofia Coppola, actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett, and cinematographer Ed Lachman looking back at The Virgin Suicides...

Wonderstruck

Wonderstruck

2017

Director of Photography

6.1
Directing

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 s...

Life in Boxes

Life in Boxes

2017

as Self

Acting

Life in boxes, objects as a form of memory. Two-time Oscar nominee Edward Lachman shows us the loft in New York where he lives surrounded by boxes.

Wiener-Dog

Wiener-Dog

2016

Director of Photography, Camera Operator

5.6
Directing

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

Carol

Carol

2015

Director of Photography

7.5
Directing

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

Don't Blink - Robert Frank

Don't Blink - Robert Frank

2015

Director of Photography

7.0
Directing

The life and work of Robert Frank—as a photographer and a filmmaker—are so intertwined that they're one in the same, and the vast amount of territory ...

Sluizer Speaks

Sluizer Speaks

2014

Acting

Some doctors say he won't last another day but still he keeps making films. Sluizer Speaks tells the story of George Sluizer, director of such films a...

Cathedrals of Culture

Cathedrals of Culture

2014

Director of Photography

5.7
Directing

"If buildings could talk, what would they say about us?" CATHEDRALS OF CULTURE offers six startling responses. This 3D film project about the soul of...

Six by Sondheim

Six by Sondheim

2013

Director of Photography

7.1
Directing

This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs.

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

2013

Director of Photography

5.2
Directing

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of t...

Paradise: Hope

Paradise: Hope

2013

Director of Photography

6.3
Directing

Her mother in Kenya, 13-year-old Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp set in the Austrian countryside. Between workouts and nutrit...

Dark Blood

Dark Blood

2012

Director of Photography

5.8
Directing

Filmed in 1993 but never completed due to River Phoenix's death, Dark Blood tells the story of Boy, a young widower living on a nuclear testing site i...

Paradise: Faith

Paradise: Faith

2012

Director of Photography

6.5
Directing

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 Eg...

Paradise: Love

Paradise: Love

2012

Director of Photography

6.7
Directing

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 ...

About Jenny Holzer

2011

Director of Photography

4.0
Directing

Director Claudia Muller follows the career of conceptual artist Jenny Holzer in this documentary that's as illuminating as her trademark LED displays....

Howl

Howl

2010

Director of Photography

6.5
Directing

It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the...

Life During Wartime

Life During Wartime

2010

Director of Photography

6.0
Directing

Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos. Follows Solond...

Collapse

Collapse

2009

Director of Photography

7.2
Directing

From the acclaimed director of American Movie, the documentary follows former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter Michael Ruppert. ...

Life for a Child

2008

Director

5.2
Directing

Directed by Academy Award-nominee Edward Lachman, the documentary film Life for a Child follows the journeys of children with type 1 diabetes amid the...

Import/Export

Import/Export

2007

Director of Photography

7.0
Directing

A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Both are ...

I'm Not There

I'm Not There

2007

Director of Photography

6.5
Directing

Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger...

Hounddog

Hounddog

2007

Director of Photography

6.4
Directing

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

A Prairie Home Companion

A Prairie Home Companion

2006

Director of Photography

6.3
Directing

A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country m...

Final 24: River Phoenix

Final 24: River Phoenix

2006

as Self - Cinematographer, Dark Blood

Acting

Final 24 recreates River Phoenix's last day to tell the tragic tale of a young man whose short life was dominated by the constant pressure to perform.

The Music of Regret

The Music of Regret

2006

Director of Photography

6.0
Directing

Simmons, best-known for her photographs of miniature rooms populated by dolls and of oversized objects—such as a house, birthday cake, and pistol—bala...

Ken Park

Ken Park

2003

Director of Photography, Director

6.0
Directing

Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; C...

Far from Heaven

Far from Heaven

2002

Director of Photography

7.0
Directing

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

S1m0ne

S1m0ne

2002

Director of Photography

6.0
Directing

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 prod...

Sweet November

Sweet November

2001

Director of Photography

6.9
Directing

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 differ...

The Virgin Suicides

The Virgin Suicides

2000

Director of Photography

7.1
Directing

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

Erin Brockovich

Erin Brockovich

2000

Director of Photography

7.4
Directing

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 fo...

The Limey

The Limey

1999

Director of Photography

6.5
Directing

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...

Why Do Fools Fall In Love

Why Do Fools Fall In Love

1998

Director of Photography

6.4
Directing

In the mid-80s, three women (each with an attorney) arrive at the office of New York entertainment manager, Morris Levy. One is an L.A. singer, former...

Selena

Selena

1997

Director of Photography

7.7
Directing

In this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young d...

Touch

Touch

1997

Director of Photography

5.7
Directing

At the discovery of his ability to work miracles, Juvenal becomes a media sensation, but now he's prone to those who want to exploit him.

My Family

My Family

1995

Director of Photography

7.5
Directing

Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los A...

My New Gun

My New Gun

1992

Director of Photography

4.3
Directing

Debbie Bender is a New Jersey housewife whose life is turned upside down when her husband gives her a gun for self-protection. But his plans backfire ...

Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint

Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint

1992

Director of Photography

6.6
Directing

Follow-up to Roger & Me.

Light Sleeper

Light Sleeper

1992

Director of Photography

6.7
Directing

John LeTour is a recovering drug user who suffers insomnia and still deals to a high-end New York clientele, even though he’s trying to move on from t...

London Kills Me

London Kills Me

1991

Director of Photography

6.0
Directing

For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe... a young man's life is almost lost, which is exactly what this film is all about: a man barel...

Mississippi Masala

Mississippi Masala

1991

Director of Photography

6.4
Directing

Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land o...

Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter

Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter

1990

Director

Directing

This music special is dedicated to dispelling the prejudices associated with the HIV infection and raising money for AIDS research and relief. Some of...

Catchfire

Catchfire

1990

Director of Photography

5.3
Directing

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 ge...

The Local Stigmatic

The Local Stigmatic

1990

Director of Photography

5.1
Directing

Two symbiotic sociopaths play obscurely deviant mind games with each other while engaging in perversely brutal acts of violence against victims appare...

Lou Reed and John Cale: Songs for Drella

Lou Reed and John Cale: Songs for Drella

1990

Director of Photography, Director

6.8
Directing

Songs for Drella is a concept album by Lou Reed and John Cale, both formerly of The Velvet Underground, and is dedicated to the memory of Andy Warhol,...

Protect me from what I want

Protect me from what I want

1990

Director of Photography, Director

10.0
Directing

As the 1980s reached its frantic climax, Jenny Holzer was the world’s most celebrated artist, with 3 solo shows in 1989: the Dia Art Foundation, the G...

Imagining America

Imagining America

1989

Director

5.0
Directing

An anthology film consisting of four shorts with the central theme being life in the United States.

Less Than Zero

Less Than Zero

1987

Director of Photography

6.4
Directing

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-contro...

A Gathering of Old Men

A Gathering of Old Men

1987

Director of Photography

6.0
Directing

A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot in self defense. A group of old, black men takes a ...

Making Mr. Right

Making Mr. Right

1987

Director of Photography

5.0
Directing

When image consultant Frankie Stone is hired by a tech company to teach a scientist’s “Ulysses Robot” how to be a man, she winds up developing very re...

Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa

1986

Director of Photography

Directing

We follow the daily activities of Mother Teresa and her nuns, in service to the poor of India and the world. Mother Teresa attends to the basic needs ...

True Stories

True Stories

1986

Director of Photography

6.7
Directing

A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent ...

The Tender Age

The Tender Age

1986

Director of Photography

5.5
Directing

Tim Donovan, a juvenile probation officer for the city of Boston, is assigned the case of Nikki, a troubled teenage girl who's been arrested for Assa...

Ornette: Made in America

Ornette: Made in America

1986

Director of Photography

6.3
Directing

Shirley Clarke's frenetic documentary about multi-talented musician Ornette Coleman.

The Day You Love Me

The Day You Love Me

1986

Director of Photography

6.0
Directing

Two communist lovers prepare to move to the Ukraine and work on a collective farm. Meanwhile, a celebrated pop singer visits their small town, and se...

Stripper

Stripper

1985

Director of Photography

5.5
Directing

A strippers' convention and a major contest. The movie focuses on a few strippers, each with her own strong motive to win.

Insignificance

Insignificance

1985

Additional Camera

6.4

Four 1950s cultural icons who conceivably could have met but probably didn't, fictionally do so in this modern fable of post-WWII America. Visually in...

Tokyo-Ga

Tokyo-Ga

1985

Director of Photography

7.0
Directing

German director Wim Wenders tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of Yasujiro Ozu and finds a very different city.

Desperately Seeking Susan

Desperately Seeking Susan

1985

Director of Photography

6.1
Directing

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 ...

Report from Hollywood

1985

Director

Directing

“It may be worse than Portugal,” observes cinematographer Henri Alekan about a Los Angeles film lab while on the set of Wim Wenders’ The State of Thin...

R.A.B.L.

R.A.B.L.

1985

Director of Photography

Directing

RABL combines film, early 3D computer animated human movement, and dance. RABL explores the interaction of human bodies and technology with choreograp...

The Last Trip to Harrisburg

The Last Trip to Harrisburg

1984

Director, Director of Photography

6.0
Directing

A soldier and a beautiful blonde on a train to Harrisburg.

Huie's Sermon

Huie's Sermon

1983

Camera Operator

5.0

Reverend Huie Rogers is a preacher at the Bible Way Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Brooklyn. He is the topic of this short film, during which laun...

Say Amen, Somebody

Say Amen, Somebody

1983

Director of Photography

6.2
Directing

Documentary on modern black gospel music, focusing on the pioneering Rev. Thomas Dorsey and Mother Willie Mae Ford Smith

The Little Wars

The Little Wars

1982

Director of Photography

6.0
Directing

Beirut resident Soraya is drawn to two men: daredevil photographer Nabil and Talal, who must embrace his feudal heritage when his father is kidnapped.

Split Cherry Tree

Split Cherry Tree

1982

Director of Photography

6.5
Directing

Split Cherry Tree is a 1982 short film directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. A father learns the importance of education and gains an understanding of his ...

They All Laughed

They All Laughed

1981

Camera Operator

5.9

New York's Odyssey Detective Agency is hired by two different clients to follow two women suspected of infidelity. Ladies' man John Russo trails Angel...

An All Round Maid

An All Round Maid

1981

Director of Photography

6.0
Directing

A video derived from footage Godard kept from his 1981 visit to Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Studios at the time he was making Passion.

Lightning Over Water

Lightning Over Water

1980

as Self

6.6
Acting

Director 'Nicholas Ray' is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1983)...

Lightning Over Water

Lightning Over Water

1980

Director of Photography

6.6
Directing

Director 'Nicholas Ray' is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1983)...

Union City

Union City

1980

Director of Photography

5.2
Directing

A 1950s accountant with a restless wife grows paranoid after hiding a milk thief's corpse next door.

Last Embrace

Last Embrace

1979

Additional Photography

5.4

Secret agent Harry Hannan suffers a mental breakdown when a botched mission in Mexico results in the death of his wife. He is sent to a mental asylum,...

La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe

La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe

1977

as Self

7.3
Acting

Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except ...

La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe

La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe

1977

Camera Operator, Director of Photography

7.3
Directing

Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except ...

The American Friend

The American Friend

1977

Assistant Camera

7.1

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 ga...

Stroszek

Stroszek

1977

Second Unit Director of Photography

7.4
Directing

Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he...

False Face

False Face

1977

Director of Photography

6.3
Directing

A psychopathic plastic surgeon transforms a young accident victim into the spitting image of his missing daughter.

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

1976

Camera Operator, Assistant Camera

6.3

A documentary short examining the language and performance of auctioneering, filmed at the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship in Pennsylvania.

The Lords of Flatbush

The Lords of Flatbush

1974

Director of Photography

5.7
Directing

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 c...

America First

1972

Assistant Camera

A previously isolated Appalachian region is infiltrated by seven travelers, who seek to create a Utopian community with the residents. A television do...