Once a student at UVM, Robert Richardson is one of the world’s great cinematographers today, the go-to director of photography for film directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Oliver Stone and Martin Scorsese. Fall 2020 marked the debut of a new course, Film and Television Studies 131: Cinematography and the Films of Robert Richardson, led by Professor Hilary Neroni. (Courtesy photo)
The world lost an oceanographer and gained a cinematographer in 1973, when former UVM student Robert Richardson discovered the filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. More than four decades after that fateful Bergman film festival, Richardson is now one of the world’s great cinematographers the go-to for directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Oliver Stone and Martin Scorsese. And now he’s back in the UVM classroom.