[…] sets.SPEAKER: M34You know and you think well alive you know I've always quarrelled with these nominations. I won a few years ago I was on a jury for BAFTA Best Editing and one of the four films was Woody Allen film. Now how can you put that up. Because you know how he shoots it. There's a group of […]
[…]nd this happened with one or two people. But if you kept your kept your head down, said yes at the right minute and as your bride and tried to do the best you could and showed that you were trying to do the best you could. And you also had enthusiasm via terrific enthusiasm. I was I was a bit stupid[…]
[…]wn as the techniques of driving electric auto. Motives you cannot imagine on the title anything being more boring, but in actual fact, it won a prize BAFTA that year for the best instructional film, or something like that. But it fascinated me because the director was a man called Ken Fairburn. Oh, […]
[…]cate, so I have just dropped it.LH: What kind of schooling did you have?WR: Prep school in High Wycombe and then the grammar school, and I wasn’t the best student, and my parents were friendly with Edgar Wallace’s Art Director, the only lady art director at the time. She was very talented, when she […]
[…]s to be doing, if you were lucky, 30 [%] but mostly in the 20s so it was quite sensational at the time. And then, low and behold, they went on to win BAFTAs and things like that which was fantastic! So, it was, I mean I find it hard to think that anybody lived through a more golden era of opportunit[…]
[…]must have filmed in pretty well every continent in the world, including Antarctica. And apart from a lot of awards for your films, you also have four nominations for Hollywood Academy Awards, in the live action short subject category, which I think is unique to any writer director in this country. H[…]
[…]omething called Fragment of Fear, that was a modern one with Gayle Hunnicutt and David Hemmings. Then I did The Hireling, for which I got a BAFTAaward, that was twenties. The book isn’t twenties, I think the book’s forties, but I thinkthey were right to make that twenties, I think that wor[…]
[…]esinger: Nominated, and so was John Voight. But sentimentally I think out of, John Wayne got it for True Grit. I think they were more generous at the BAFTA awards. I think they got awards here. Norman Swallow: A very great film John Schlesinger: It's just been revived, 25 years. They've re[…]
[…]ore that my parents had discovered Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science. So by 1937 I was what is known or was known in the Army as an O.D., Other Denomination. I was a Christian Scientist I mean that was a bore …Colin Moffat: Was that a token thing? I mean were you literally sincerely or you[…]
[…]omebody would say 10 years before all of the jealousies in the kitchen. This is ridiculous and it's an awful thing to say. I think it's true that the best thing that ever happened was that it was closed down. And John Taylor. With whom I lived and worked and worked a lot and more much more recently […]
