The Cotton Club (1984)
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola · Cinematography by Stephen Goldblatt
R129 min60 frames
CrimeDrama
Where deals were made, lives were traded and the legends of jazz lit up the night.
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What is The Cotton Club about?
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
The Cotton Club is a 1984 American musical crime drama film co-written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and based on James Haskins' 1977 book of the same name. The story centers on the Cotton Club, a 1930s Harlem jazz club. The film stars Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, and Lonette McKee, with Bob Hoskins, James Remar, Nicolas Cage, Allen Garfield, Gwen Verdon, Fred Gwynne and Laurence Fishburne in supporting roles.
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What does the cinematography of The Cotton Club look like?
Sampled across 60 frames, the coverage of The Cotton Club leans on medium shots (37% of the sample) and close-ups (33%). Cinematographer Stephen Goldblatt keeps 85% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 95% of the frames. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 78% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1940s.
What is the color palette of The Cotton Club?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Cotton Club (1984) are #130f0e, #49352d, #241916, #362c2a, #8d756b, #594b47 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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