[…]throughout the 70s, the department expanded until I can remember in 1978, I think it was about then, and I just begun Empire road. David hare won the BAFTA Award for licking Hitler. Gangsters was our series. Alan Bleasdale had just done the first black stuff, film. And this all went out in one sees.[…]
[…] more kind of avuncular and sort of gentler but had enormous experience. He’d worked with H G [Orson] Welles, he’d been in Moscow in the war shooting pictures, you know what I mean, was a very interesting man. So, but no it was slightly that. So I mean I’m not sure that, you know, they sat down and […]
[…]sp; “Rocky Horror Picture Show” – cult movie. “I’m very lucky to say that at the age of 29 I was Production Designer on it”. Fortuitous: first Brian Thompson then John […]
[…]nto the enormous star and cult status that she now has today. We filmed it perhaps, we rather perversely, we were very against cameras wandering over pictures and picking up details and so on, so it’s a very, very, austere film, but I really enjoyed making it a lot, and I found kind of thinking thro[…]
[…]ic job. And it was wonderful actors, and, you know, it was, it is a very moving piece, and I’m very proud that I’ve got my name on it. And we won the BAFTA, best single drama. And, I think it was at that point I thought, I’m going to retire, because I’ve, won a BAFTA, and I’ll go out.[0:10:08]What w[…]
[…]e time as well?Speaker 2 5:46 Well, I was. I mean, insofar as everybody was or appeared to be in those days. I mean, we used to go to the pictures twice a week, without fail. No question, you know, we went on Wednesdays and Fridays, you know. And we saw everything, whether it was good, b[…]
[…]. I was therebefore Alamein, and Alamein of course. I was attached to a South African Brigade andthen an Australian bunch. In fact you can see all my pictures now in the Imperial WarMuseum. They've got qu ite a collection of mineAlan Lawson: Were you doing cine and stillsMonty Berman: I was doing ci[…]
[…]int, so it was rather nice. Er, and years and years and years later, again, I met up with Greta at a party somewhere and she said, "You remember that picture you painted of me?" And I said, "Yes." She said, "I've still got it!"Linda Wood : I was going to ask you that - had she kept it!Anthony Mendle[…]
