By Iain Blair

If you love film and docs, you have to see NO SUBTITLES NECESSARY: LASZLO & VILMOS, the new documentary about the artistry, triumph and lifelong friendship of the great cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond. Directed by James Chressanthis, ASC, with cinematography by Anka Malatynska, it tells the story of how the two, using just film school equipment,  shot the Soviet crackdown of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and then, as refugees, struggled to make it in Hollywood—finally breaking into the mainstream with such seminal films as Easy Rider, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Five Easy Pieces, Paper Moon, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and the The Deer Hunter. Featuring the likes of Karen Black, Peter Bogdanovich, Sandra Bullock, Richard Donner, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper,  Tatum O’Neal, Bob Rafelson, Sharon Stone, Vittorio Storaro,  Jon Voight and Haskell Wexler, the movie skillfully weaves their conversations with clips from the memorable films that Kovacs and Zsigmond shot. A must for any fan of the ‘70s – and of cinema in general.

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