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Chris Menges (born September 15, 1940 in Kingston, Herefordshire) is an English cinematographer and film director. September 15 is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years). ...
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Herefordshire is a historic and ceremonial county and unitary district (known as County of Herefordshire) in the West Midlands region of England. ...
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A cinematographer (from cinema photographer) is one photographing with a motion picture camera (the art and science of which is known as cinematography). ...
The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ...
Biography
He began his career in the 1960s as camera operator for documentaries by Adrian Cowell and for movies like Poor Cow by Ken Loach and If... by Lindsay Anderson. Kes, directed by Ken Loach, was his first film as cinematographer. He was also behind the camera on Stephen Frears' first feature film Gumshoe in 1971. The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ...
Poor Cow is a 1967 film directed by Ken Loach. ...
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Lindsay Anderson (April 17, 1923 - August 30, 1994), English film and documentary director. ...
Kes is: a film directed by Ken Loach (see Kes (film)), based on the novel A Kestrel for a Knave, by Barry Hines. ...
Ken Loach Kenneth Loach (born June 17, 1936), known as Ken Loach, is a English television and film director, known for his social realist style and socialist themes. ...
Stephen Frears in Sweden, 1989 promoting his movie Dangerous Liaisons. ...
Gumshoe is a 1972 film, and was the directorial debut of British director Stephen Frears. ...
After several documentaries and feature films like Black Beauty (1971), Bloody Kids (1978), The Game Keeper (1980), Babylon (1980) and Angel (1982) he became notable for more ambitious works for which he was critically acclaimed. Black Beauty is a novel written in 1877 by Anna Sewell about the life of a horse from his carefree days as a foal on an English farm enjoying the countryside with his mother, to his sale and his career pulling cabs and wagons in London. ...
In 1983 he received his first BAFTA nomination for the Bill Forsyth movie Local Hero and only a year later won his first Academy Award for the powerful film The Killing Fields about the genocide in Cambodia. He continued his work with helmer Roland Joffe and he won his second Oscar in 1986 with the historical drama The Mission. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ...
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Local Hero (1983) is a British comedy film starring Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay and Denis Lawson, directed by Bill Forsyth. ...
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The Killing Fields (1984) is an award-winning dramatic British film based on the experiences of the journalists Dith Pran, who survived the Khmer Rouge regime, Sydney Schanberg, and Jon Swain. ...
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Roland Joffé (born November 17, 1945) is a British film director who started out directing television. ...
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Actor Jeremy Irons, playing a Spanish Jesuit priest, scales Iguassu Falls during his missionary journey to the Guarani Indians. ...
In 1988 he gave his directional debut with A World Apart. This film was celebrated at the 1988 International Cannes Film Festival and won three major awards. A World Apart is an Anti-Apartheid drama, written by Shawn Slovo and directed by Chris Menges, produced in 1988. ...
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His second film as director Criss Cross with Goldie Hawn was a flop. In 1996 he moved back behind the camera to shoot the award winning films The Boxer (directed by Jim Sheridan) and Michael Collins (about the first IRA leader). For the latter he received his third Academy Award nomimation in 1997. Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress, director and producer. ...
The Boxer is a 1997 film by Irish director Jim Sheridan. ...
Jim Sheridan (born February 6, 1949) is a film director who was born in Dublin, Ireland, and educated by the Irish Christian Brothers. ...
Michael Collins is a semi-fictitious film made in 1996 about Michael Collins, the Irish patriot and revolutionary who died in the Irish civil war. ...
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Other works Chris Menges also made brave documentaries. In the early 1970s he went to Burma with British film maker Adrian Cowell to shoot The Opium Warlords, a movie about the drug trade. After the release of the documentary in 1974 the Burmese government was said to have put a price on their heads.
Filmography
as Cinematographer (selected) Kes (1969) is a British film by director Ken Loach. ...
Ken Loach Kenneth Loach (born June 17, 1936), known as Ken Loach, is a English television and film director, known for his social realist style and socialist themes. ...
Gumshoe is a 1972 film, and was the directorial debut of British director Stephen Frears. ...
Stephen Frears in Sweden, 1989 promoting his movie Dangerous Liaisons. ...
Local Hero (1983) is a British comedy film starring Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay and Denis Lawson, directed by Bill Forsyth. ...
Bill Forsyth (b. ...
The Killing Fields (1984) is an award-winning dramatic British film based on the experiences of the journalists Dith Pran, who survived the Khmer Rouge regime, Sydney Schanberg, and Jon Swain. ...
Roland Joffé (born November 17, 1945) is a British film director who started out directing television. ...
Comfort and Joy is a movie directed by Bill Forsyth. ...
Bill Forsyth (b. ...
Actor Jeremy Irons, playing a Spanish Jesuit priest, scales Iguassu Falls during his missionary journey to the Guarani Indians. ...
Shy People is a critically-acclaimed 1987 American drama about two branches of a family that reunite with tragic results, starring Barbara Hershey, Jill Clayburgh, and Martha Plimpton. ...
Andron Sergeyevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky (Russian: ) (born August 20, 1937 in Moscow) is an acclaimed Russian film writer and director. ...
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Neil Jordan is an Academy Award winning Irish filmmaker and novelist. ...
The Boxer is a 1997 film by Irish director Jim Sheridan. ...
Jim Sheridan (born February 6, 1949) is a film director who was born in Dublin, Ireland, and educated by the Irish Christian Brothers. ...
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David Leland (born April 20, 1947 in Cambridge, England, UK) is a British director, screenwriter and actor who came to international fame with his directional debut Wish You Were Here in 1987. ...
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is a 2005 drama film directed by Tommy Lee Jones (debut) and written by Guillermo Arriaga. ...
Tommy Lee Jones at the Cannes Film Festival Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an Oscar-winning American actor and director. ...
North Country is the name of a film directed by Niki Caro and released in 2005. ...
Niki Caro (born 1967) is a film director and screenwriter who was born in Wellington, New Zealand. ...
as Director A World Apart is an Anti-Apartheid drama, written by Shawn Slovo and directed by Chris Menges, produced in 1988. ...
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