Go to take a reading, Luciano Tovoli

Among the amusing anecdotes included in a forthcoming book of interviews to be published by NSC of the Netherlands is the reaction by Jack Nicholson to a request by Luciano Tovoli AIC ASC to open a door wider in order to see a kilometre of trees the cinematographer had lit with twelve brutes.
“What the fuck is this?” I don’t open the door more! I am the actor, you don’t tell me to act with a door. You cannot just open to see more: that is absurd.”

Suitably admonished Luciano fortunately did not receive the promised retribution from Carlo Ponti for the cost of the twelve brutes and the hardy visible exterior. Meanwhile Antonioni patiently was pushed up and down the track, looking through his viewfinder pleading not to be disturbed until Ponti left for lunch leaving Antonioni plot his two shots of the day: one in the morning, one in the afternoon.
Luciano Tovoli: "I arrived to the love of cinema trough photography. Mostly did I photograph lights. At home. Lights that come from the window, shadows. I do always the same thing. I have a great collection of this stuff. Sometimes it helps me, when I am inside a studio, shooting a movie, if I need the atmosphere of a dawn or dusk I go to my archives and I see. One great passion at that moment was real photography. And one photographer, most of all, of the group of photographers I like, was Cartier Bresson."

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