[…]n original script, incorporating as a lead the young Rembrandt played by Richard Johnson. And this is my citation. If you ask me which is visually my best production it is Rembrandt because our, Tubby Englander made a meal of it. He had the chance to make something in colour, so after the first inte[…]
[…] substantial. It was it was well shot. Well thought out. And no, comparatively few the battle. Reggie had several goes until they agreed that was the best. The only occasion which shocked me a bit. Because I was coming under Reggie's. spell was that the actual execution define our fight and ex[…]
[…]on Out of Africa because we all know that it culminated in receiving what is considered the highest award in the Motion Picture business, that is the Academy Oscar. Can you tell us a little bit about working on the picture and your enjoyment and problems and so on.PH It goes back beyond Out of Afric[…]
[…]rst day you've really got butterflies because you're on probation for 2 weeks to see if you can do the work anyway and a friend of mine, or one of my best friends from school was teaching up in North London and she had digs in Whetstone so that was lucky so she said ooh, you know, we've got a spare […]
[…] track. And the work they did on that led to the statements which they made thereafter. And they've repeated many times since, which was that the the academy curve, which we had bowed down to for so long, which is defined in terms of the electrical overall frequency response that took effect over th[…]
DICKIE BEST Tape 1 of 115th July 1987.Interview of Richard Best, editor, interviewer Arthur Graham.Copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project.SIDE 1, TAPE 1AG: Richard, where and when were you born.DB: I was born in Hull in 1916 and brought down to London at an earlyage, about[…]
[…] other boys after the same job. You should wear your best bib and tucker. And get there early." So with […]
[…] i n y o u r biographical notes to that Academy later on, you credit yourself with directing a production […]
[…]d young man. But just the first first time and, you know, we had a good, good life. We really did. We helped each other. We've, when we won our major awards, we won them at the same time, the BAFTA Awards. We rarely work together, only at the end when we made two films in India. And we did some... a[…]
