Search Results for: Dilys Powell award for outstanding contribution to cinema 2006

[…] good story about the importance of black culture in the West Indies and elsewhere on this country. And thatmovie was in the last three for the Focal Awards that year. And. So wedidn't get them gong but we got to the dinner. So that was nice. A good relationship with producerGary Hughes. And then we[…]

[…]ave of that time? Barry Quinton: Well, quite a lot I suppose in a way because it was the first time whilst at work and seeing all the films for nothing basically and it was a very happy, family-orientated cinema.Interviewer: Any particular films stay in the memory or ones that you loo[…]

[…] ‘1st Love’ C441.20        Became head of Columbia Pictures, (which he hated)52.00        Awards and ambitions55.00        Union & BFPA58.00        BSkyB59.00   […]

[…]he 27th. In East Sheen, which is near Putney, and near Richmond. My mother and father were living – they’d just got married; well they’d been married for about five years. And er, it was just after the first World War, where my father had just lost a leg with the Canadian army. He’d actually emigrat[…]

[…] days because they both came from Leeds, though Dad was from Manchester. He got the job as trainee Salesman at Liverpool branch and he won one or two awards for being good at sales - he did the north Wales area - and after that he was promoted to sales manager of the Liverpool branch and in 1948 was[…]

[…]had to be at Denham and Harper state. Wartime was not that easy. So I was hired out to work on part again of the Canterbury Tales, which was, Michael Powell, was directing it and Erwin Hillier was the camera man, who was probably one of the few people I didn't really get on with very well. He was ve[…]