Yet it was Kundun (1997), a contemplative drama about the early life of the Dalai Lama – played by Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, a relative of the actual Dalai Lama – that caused the biggest furore, ripping ...

More internal struggle than a traditional narrative and propelled by a hypnotic score by Philip Glass and cinematography by the legendary Roger Deakins, Martin Sorsese’s 1997 film “Kundun” is an epic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roger Deakins’ legendary cinematography career has seen him work with elite directors like the Coen Brothers, Sam Mendes, and ...

Philip Glass: Kundun Gyuto Monks; Monks of the Drukpa Order; Instrumental ensemble conducted by Michael Riesman (Nonesuch) Martin Scorsese’s 1997 film on the life of the Dalai Lama has a particularly ...

It seemed this year that if any artist was due for the retrospective treatment, it was “Unbroken” cinematographer Roger Deakins. While I of course did not address all of the 50-plus films he has shot ...

This article is part of Portrait Mode, a Slate pop-up series about biopics. Martin Scorsese’s 1997 film Kundun is famous mostly for being unknown, or at least unseen. Kundun is the ne plus ultra of ...