Janusz Kaminski

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q365230: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as cinematographer, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they shot, which the two lists below run through too: Amistad (1997); Saving Private Ryan (1998); A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001); Minority Report (2002); The Judge (2014).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Stanley Kubrick: 2 lines

  1. unmapped (developed from unmade screenplay) · through A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), which they shot: Stanley Kubrick ⇒ A.I. Artificial Intelligence (the host's read). A.I. is the Kubrick screenplay that Spielberg made.
    “AI is the is the cubic screenplay that Spielberg made.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:34:08 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them)
  2. career (inherited project) · through A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), which they shot: Stanley Kubrick ⇒ A.I. Artificial Intelligence (the host's read). The speaker wonders whether Spielberg would mind A.I. being called half Kubrick's movie.
    “would he be offended in that kind of way of like, that's half Stanley's movie?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:13:25 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Apocalypse Now (1979): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Saving Private Ryan (1998), which they shot: Apocalypse Now ⇒ Saving Private Ryan (the host's read). Two decades of Apocalypse Now, Platoon and Born made Ryan's grit necessary.
    “By the time Saving Private Ryan was released, moviegoers have spent two decades being confronted by the likes of Apocalypse Now in Platoon and born in the Fourth of July.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:00:36 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

Jurassic Park (1993): 1 line

  1. unmapped (technology showed it was possible) · through A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), which they shot: Jurassic Park ⇒ A.I. Artificial Intelligence (the host's read). The speaker says Kubrick, who first asked Spielberg to build a robot, saw Jurassic Park and reconsidered.
    “And then he sees Jurassic Park and he's once again like, well, wait a second.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:31:56 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Man of Steel (2013): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage) · through The Judge (2014), which they shot: Man of Steel ⇒ The Judge (the host's read). The tornado father-son fight echoes the father-son tornado scene in Man of Steel, another Warner Bros. film.
    “an homage to everyone's favorite father son scene from Man of Steel.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 1:20:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Pinocchio: 1 line

  1. unmapped (template) · through A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), which they shot: Pinocchio ⇒ A.I. Artificial Intelligence (the maker said so: Kubrick to the short story writer (Brian Aldiss), as the speaker tells it). Kubrick told the short story writer he wanted to combine the story with Pinocchio, per the speaker.
    “he was like, I want to take your story and combine it with Pinocchio.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:30:27 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Saving Private Ryan (1998): 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (stylistic shift) · through Minority Report (2002), which they shot: Saving Private Ryan ⇒ Minority Report (the host's read). Saving Private Ryan was the biggest shift in Spielberg's signature style, letting him change languages for films like Minority Report and Munich.
    “Saving Private Ryan is, in my opinion, the single biggest shift in his signature style up until that point”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 2:18:41 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Mercy (2026): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Minority Report (2002), which they shot: Minority Report ⇒ Mercy (the host's read). Mercy's AI-as-justice-machine premise is an idea Minority Report explored earlier.
    “Like minority report explores this idea of what if we use technology to better, like better control criminal activity in the world.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:20:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Minority Report (2002): 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (stylistic shift) · through Saving Private Ryan (1998), which they shot: Saving Private Ryan ⇒ Minority Report (the host's read). Saving Private Ryan was the biggest shift in Spielberg's signature style, letting him change languages for films like Minority Report and Munich.
    “Saving Private Ryan is, in my opinion, the single biggest shift in his signature style up until that point”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 2:18:41 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)

The Thin Red Line (1998): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Saving Private Ryan (1998), which they shot: Saving Private Ryan ⇒ The Thin Red Line (the host's read). Ryan spearheaded a WWII revival that included The Thin Red Line and others.
    “It also spearheaded Hollywood's World War II revival.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:59:33 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Photography (5) everyone in photography

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Janusz Kaminski → Steven Spielberg. Minority Report is maybe the fourth or fifth film Kaminski shot for Spielberg, after A.I., Saving Private Ryan and Amistad, which were real-world where this one is dreamlike.
    “maybe the 4th or the 5th movie that, um, Yanush Kaminsky made with it.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:28:27 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Minority Report → Janusz Kaminski. Minority Report looks like what Spielberg's films look like now: cloudy natural light into a dingy area.
    “And it feels more like what all Steven Spielberg movies look like now, this sort of like cloudy, natural light flooding through into a dingy area.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:28:34 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (cinematographer): Janusz Kaminski → The Judge. Kaminski, Spielberg's regular, shot The Judge beautifully but too seriously for the tone.
    “It's shot by Yanush Kaminsky, who's a great director of photographer. Steven Spielberg's regular, has shot every Steven Spielberg.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:34:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Janusz Kaminski: The Judge is gorgeously shot with pools of light through windows, which clashes with everything else the film does.
    “It's always these pools of light coming through the window.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Judging The Judge · 0:35:43 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)