Chris Menges

[…]hing like Black Jack which feels like a very different kind of film because it’s much more of a kind of period piece than Kes which is, kind of, very contemporary. Did you feel like you changed your style for that, or the film style, or was it…CM: I think James Hill had done a lovely film called Jos[…]

Virginia McKenna

[…]ily living in Dorset in 1804.[9] Peter Brook (b. 1925) is an English theatre director whose experimental productions have been highly influential for contemporary theatre. He is currently based in France.[10] Basil Radford (1897-1952) was an English actor best known for appearing alongside Naunton W[…]

Bill Mason

[…] wrestler. Then I spent several years, a series for BP on the history of the motor car, the history of motorracing had been made almost entirely from contemporary film, the history of the motorcar had very little film really. It worked very well really. Then I did a film for the post office which I […]

Pat Jackson

[…]John Legard: Oh, we're now talking 1945, end of 1945?Pat Jackson: 1945, we're coming into 1946. And I felt quite sure that the really dramatic story, contemporary dramatic story to be told was in the British zone of Germany. So I got Bernard [?surname?] to go as a British correspondent. I got Metro […]

Cyril Howard

[…]sp;l met one of them the other day at Glebelands.   Paul Wright. CH:     Are you a strict contemporary of mine.RF:  I was born in 27.  One year after.  I was more fortunate than yo[…]

Julia Cave

[…] course, I’d done the continuation of the ‘Plunderers’, which was ‘For Love or Money’ which was an expose´ of the old-master paintings market and the contemporary-art market; which I did with John Percival.  So, we did a lot of sale-rooms and quite a lot of interesting expose´ stories with Soth[…]

Francis Searle

[…]iduals to the point ruining their careers.Speaker 1  5:34  Well, no, you see, all the people that I've been talking about were more or less contemporary. And I mean, and it was the only one who was really he must be in his 60s when he came, yes, so of course, he was way off. Well, we said […]

Jack Gold

[…]hing like fifty parts between them. And it was based on the idea that it was a nineteenth century political scandal which was being investigated by a contemporary documentary director, and there were constant interviews with the survivors, the survivors, ancstors - not ancestors, what do you call th[…]

Roger Smither

[…]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[…]
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