American Cinematographer - February 2007 - 62

Full Circle
After

relocating

to the U.S. in

the

early 1980s,
began
his long and

Ballhaus

fruitful
collaboration
with director

Martin
Scorsese with
the

pitch-black
comedy After
Hours. Top: The
movie's hapless
protagonist,
Paul Hackett

(Griffin Dunne,
right) seeks the

help of a
sympathetic
bartender (John
Heard)

as

he tries

desperately to
escape an
endless

evening of
misadventures
in lower

Manhattan.
Middle:

Ballhaus,
Dunne and

Scorsese share
a

laugh during
the shoot.
Bottom: The

filmmakers

capture the
authentic feel
of

a

New York

street at

night.

and said, 'Ulli, this guy

is a fucking
genius!' That was the start of their
long and beautiful relationship."
After
passing this test,
Ballhaus quickly came to recognize
Fassbinder's skill
knew

right

as a

filmmaker. "I

that he was very,
Everything he suggest¬
ed was great. He often tried to make
things as complicated as possible,
but I found I could cope with him
and his ideas. He never said anything
complimentary to me when we
looked at dailies, though. He was
very rough.
"Looking back, he was the
most important thing that happened
in my life during that period. First of
all, he was the guy in Germany at the
away

very talented.

time, because he did the

most excit¬

ing movies. He had great stories,
most

he

of which he

pushed

me

wrote

himself, and

all the time. He

worked very fast, so I always had to
be well prepared, because he never

much time. On most of his
movies, the longest schedule we had

gave me
was

around 20

days. We actually shot
of Petra von Kant,

The Bitter Tears
62

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