Robby Müller

Robby Müller
Robby Müller
Born	4 April 1940 (1940-04-04) Willemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands
Occupation	Cinematographer

Robby Müller (born 4 April 1940, in Willemstad, Curaçao) is a cinematographer whose name is most often associated with film director Wim Wenders.

Life and work

Müller was born in Curaçao, Dutch Antilles, in 1940 and moved to Amsterdam in 1953. He studied at the Netherlands Film Academy from 1962 to 1964.[1] He worked as cinematographer on a number of shorts before collaborating with Wim Wenders on his first feature, Summer in the City. They went on to make many more together such as Alice in the Cities, Kings of the Road, The American Friend, and Paris, Texas.

Müller's other work has been on both mainstream U.S. productions and independent films. His other work has included the hazy, yellow-tinted cinematography of William Friedkin's To Live and Die in LA, Sally Potter's The Tango Lesson, Dom Rotheroe's My Brother Tom, Lars von Trier's starkly shot films, Breaking the Waves and Dancer in the Dark, and Jim Jarmusch's gritty looking films Down by Law, Mystery Train, Dead Man and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai.

Filmography

• Alabama: 2000 light years (1969)
• Summer in the City (1970)
• Jonathan (1970)
• Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty) (1971)
• Der Scharlachrote Buchstabe (The Scarlet Letter) (1973)
• Die Reise nach Wien (Edgar Reitz) (1973)
• Perahim - die zweite Chance - Hans W. Geißendörfer (1974)
• Alice in den Städten (Alice in the Cities) (1974)
• Ein bißchen Liebe - Veith von Fürstenberg (1974)
• Falsche Bewegung (The Wrong Move) (1975)
• Es herrscht Ruhe im Land (Calm prevails over the country) - Peter Lilienthal (1976)
• Im Lauf der Zeit (Kings of the Road) (1976)
• Die Wildente (The Wild Duck) - Hans W. Geißendörfer (1976)
• Der Amerikanische Freund (The American Friend) (1977)
• Die linkshändige Frau (The left-handed woman) - Peter Handke (1977)
• Die Gläserne Zelle (The Glass Cell) (1978)
• Mysteries - Paul DeLussanet (1978)
• Saint Jack (1979)
• Opname (In for treatment) - Erik van Zuylen (1980)
• Honeysuckle Rose (1980)
• They All Laughed (1981)
• Een zwoele zomeravond (A hot summer night) - Frans Weisz (1982)
• Un dimanche de flic (A cops' Sunday) - Michael Vianey (1982)
• Klassen Feind (Class enemy) - Peter Stein (1983)
• Les îles (The islands) - Iradj Azimi (1983)
• Tricheurs (Cheaters) (1983)
• Repo Man (1984)
• Paris, Texas (1984)
• Body Rock (1984)
• To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
• The Longshot (1986)
• Down by Law (1986)
• Barfly (1987)
• The Believers (1987)
• Il piccolo diavolo (The Little Devil) (1988)
• Coffee and cigarettes: Memphis version - Jim Jarmusch (1989)
• Mystery Train (1989)
• Aufzeichnungen zu Kleidern und Städten (Notebook on Cities and Clothes) (1989)
• Korczak (1990)
• Bis ans Ende der Welt (Until the End of the World) (1991)
• Mad Dog and Glory (1993)
• When pigs fly - Sara Driver (1993)
• Hoogste Tijd (Last call) (1995)
• Dead Man (1995)
• Beyond the Clouds (1995)
• Breaking the Waves - (1996)
• The Tango Lesson (1997)
• Shattered Image (1998)
• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
• Dancer in the Dark (2000)
• My brother Tom (2001)
• 24 Hour Party People (2002)
• Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)

Awards

• 1975 & 1991 Deutscher Filmpreis, Best Cinematography
• 1984 Bavarian Film Award, Best Cinematography
• 1996 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cinematographer, for Breaking the Waves.
• 2009 Bert Haanstra Oevreprijs for his lifeworks.

External links

Robby Müller at the Internet Movie Database