Adam Holender Explained

Adam Holender (born 13 November 1937) is a Polish cinematographer, best known for his work on Midnight Cowboy.

He was born 13 November 1937 in Kraków, Poland, the son of a judge.^[1] In 1939, he and his family were deported to a Siberian labor camp, and not allowed to return to Kraków until 1947.

Holender studied architecture before enrolling at PWSFTviT in Łódź, from where he graduated in 1964.^[2]

Midnight Cowboy was Holender's first cinematography assignment: he was recommended to director John Schlesinger by Holender's childhood friend, filmmaker Roman Polanski.^[3] According to Schlesinger his inspiration to make the movie came from the 1967 Yugoslav film When I Am Dead and Gone by a Serbian director Živojin Pavlović.^[4]

Filmography

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1969	Midnight Cowboy	John Schlesinger
1971	The Panic in Needle Park	Jerry Schatzberg
1972	Moonwalk One	Theo Kamecke
	The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds	Paul Newman
1974	Man on a Swing	Frank Perry
1978	The Other Side of Hell	Ján Kadár	TV movie
	If I Ever See You Again	Joseph Brooks
1979	The Seduction of Joe Tynan	Jerry Schatzberg
	Promises in the Dark	Jerome Hellman
1980	Simon	Marshall Brickman
	The Shadow Box	Paul Newman	TV movie
	The Idolmaker	Taylor Hackford
1986	The Boy Who Could Fly	Nick Castle
1987	Street Smart	Jerry Schatzberg
1988	To Kill a Priest	Agnieszka Holland
1989	The Dream Team	Howard Zieff
1994	Fresh	Boaz Yakin
1995	Smoke	Wayne Wang
	Blue in the Face
1996	I'm Not Rappaport	Herb Gardner
1997	8 Heads in a Duffel Bag
1998	A Price Above Rubies	Boaz Yakin
	Wide Awake	M. Night Shyamalan
2000	Mary and Rhoda	Barnet Kellman	TV movie
2002	Roads to Riches	Michelle Gallagher
2004	Stateside	Reverge Anselmo
2005		Michael Bregman
2007	Shortcut to Happiness	Alec Baldwin (credited as "Harry Kirkpatrick")
2019	Apollo 11	Todd Douglas Miller	Documentary

Notes and References

1. Web site: Adam Holender . Cinematographers.nl . 20 September 2015 . 7 November 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151107071332/http://www.cinematographers.nl/PaginasDoPh/holender.htm . dead .
2. Web site: Adam Holender ASC. cinematographers. 15 September 2015. 7 November 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151107071332/http://www.cinematographers.nl/PaginasDoPh/holender.htm. dead.
3. News: Goldstein, Patrick . Patrick Goldstein . 'Midnight Cowboy' and the very dark horse its makers rode in on . . February 27, 2005 . August 27, 2009.
4. Surfing the Black – Yugoslav Black Wave Cinema and Its Transgressive MomentsAuthor: Gal Kirn, Dubravka Sekulić and Žiga Testen Publisher: Jan van Eyck