José Luis Alcaine

José Luis Alcaine Escaño (born 26 December 1938) is a Spanish cinematographer. Educated in Tangier, he was the first cinematographer to use a fluorescent tube as key lighting in the 1970s. He has worked on films such as Belle Époque (Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, 1993), Two Much (1995), Blast from the Past (1999), and The Skin I Live In (2011). In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Alcaine and the second or maternal family name is Escaño. He won the European Film Award for Best Cinematographer for Volver, and has received five Goya Awards for best cinematography.
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Crew

Bad Education
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Volver
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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
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A Diary of a Murderess
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Jamon Jamon
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Blast from the Past
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Carmen de Carabanchel
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Mambru Went to War
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God Bless Each Corner of This House
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I Saw Her First
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Javier y los invasores del espacio
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The Whore and the Whale
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Star Knight
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María, la santa
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Soldados
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Passion
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Vida y color
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Parallel Mothers
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Ay, Carmela!
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Roma
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Don Juan
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The Tit and the Moon
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Golden Balls
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Belle Époque
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Songs for After a War
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Lovers: A True Story
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I'm So Excited!
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The Skin I Live In
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From Hell to Victory
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Gulliver
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Voyage to Nowhere
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The Court of the Pharaoh
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Tasio
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Akelarre
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Half of Heaven
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Gunslinger's Revenge
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Goodbye Alicia
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The Maidens' Conspiracy
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¿... Y el prójimo?
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South from Granada
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Murder in the Central Committee
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Who Can Kill a Child?
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Bésame, tonta
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Turkish Passion
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Lute: Forge On or Die
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El Lute II: Tomorrow I'll Be Free
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Two Much
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La reina del mate
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Blame
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The Dancer Upstairs
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Per favore, occupati di Amelia
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Más allá del jardín
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Wild Oats
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Sensualidad
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La campanada
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Devil's Exorcist
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My Life in Ruins
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Anabel
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El Sur
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The Queen of Spain
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The Lost Lover
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Strange Way of Life
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Casanova
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Theresa: The Body of Christ
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Red Gold
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Antonio, a boy in Lisbon
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Everybody Knows
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Stay as You Are
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School Trip
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Lolita's Club
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Speak Sunlight
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The Triple Death of the Third Character
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The Wretched Life of Juanita Narboni
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Ruy Blas
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La banda Picasso
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Pain and Glory
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Rustlers' Rhapsody
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Adam's Perfection
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Domino
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Family Portrait
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El niño es nuestro
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País S. A.
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Freedomfighters
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Girl with the Golden Panties
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Acteón
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So My Grandma's a Lesbian!
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Después de… Segunda parte: atado y bien atado
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Después de… Primera parte: no se os puede dejar solos
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The Lonely Heart
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Paseo por los letreros de Madrid
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The Human Voice
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El cronicón
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Tinto con amor
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Nine Letters to Berta
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Let's Go, Barbara
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Pepita Jiménez
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The Lost Paradise
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Marián
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Confidencias
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Hay que deshacer la casa
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Intruso
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Los buenos samaritanos
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El último día de la humanidad
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The 13 Roses
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Misadventure
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Dancing Machine
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Twisted Obsession
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The Delights of the Garden
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The Sea and the Weather
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Nobody's Life
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Cuidado con lo que deseas
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My Brother's Gun
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