[…]ountry that was about to get its independence book of course was set in the fifties and therefore there was some sense in this whereas if you make it contemporary there is very little sense in it anyway. They decided not to make it a period film but to make it contemporary and that was that was a st[…]
[…]nn film. Lady Jane?
Lady Jane, yes. It seems to me was...
Stagey.
Well, it was the script I thought, that everyone was so intent on making a contemporary political film.
Yes.
Which had absolutely no relevance to the Tudor aspects. But again, maybe we should leave that until when we ge[…]
[…]who like all of us all, of us in features um was really involved in drama production because the work that we did although it was nominally geared to contemporary reality or even historical reality was actually performed with actors in the studio and the programmes went out live of course since ther[…]
[…]own Speaker 26:23 Wasn't this a costumeSpeaker 2 26:23 picture the man behind the Iron Mask? No, I don't think. I don't think contemporary subject. Yeah, it was a contemporary I remember Michael Schwartz played the leading part. Something Schwartz very odd. Name grinsley. We […]
[…]aster's degree from Harvard,which he'd taken after I'd known him in Palestine. He was a poet and something of a painter. And he brought an outpost of contemporary euro American style culture to a basically, Islamic country, which is not dominated in quite the same way or some countries by fundamenta[…]
[…]ay, during my first term there I saw a film that had been made by a pupil who had left the previous term called Ken Russell. So I just missed being a contemporary of his. I was a contemporary also for good or ill of Jeffrey Bernard. He was a year after me.John Legard: How did you get into Pangbourne[…]
[…] term called Ken Russell. So I just missed being a contemporary of his. I was a contemporary also for good […]
[…]ss. But I must say, when I saw this film, I revised my feelings about him, because she was temporary with people like Gladys Cooper, and Gladys was a contemporary of hers. And Mary Pickford, of course, if in Hollywood, but anyway, Roy Fowler 11:49 I had just asked about wh[…]
[…]our RS: The World at War of course had a very great luxury of quite a large budget, and a lot of lead time for detailed film research and in the contemporary environment, budgets and research time are cut to the bone and you are much more likely these days to get a researcher saying rather desp[…]
[…]tography does need a specialist.PF: So your next film, Melody, which I believe was with Waris Hussain. Again, a lot of location, but this time a contemporary film around London.PS: I haven’t got anything special to say about that, except I’ve never been able to work out why it was so popular in[…]
