Chris Menges (CM) Cinematographer Interviewers: Paul Frith (PF) & Keith Johnston (KJ) Date 10/05/2019 Total Length 01:26:43 Part One[00:00:09]PF: Well first off, thank you Chris for taking part in the interview today. I think we should begin where your interests in film […]
[…]hink in terms of your various dogs, I think they were in just enough, if you know what I mean. R: Yes, that's right. It always annoys me because Paul O' Grady says he's the first one to have a dog on the desk and he bloody wasn't! I: Oh, I know! I know! R: He's wrong because he, you k[…]
[…]ur degree in Law?! R: I did not pass my degree in Law! I was there from '81 to '84. I think, probably, the famous pupil in the year was the late Paul McBride QC. He had come very, very early straights from St. Aloysius. Passed the exams in the first two years with flying colours and then the th[…]
[…] So having made the decision and been accepted at the, what is now popularly called the University of Westminster will present just the Regent Street Pauline, I have been accepted now Governor a year before having to take up the position. So I saved up what I could from my rather modest earnings ins[…]
[…]deration of Film Archives [FIAF] and others, to engage with other film archives and people who wanted to develop the field for collection. Paul Sargeant I can claim no credit for because he was one of Anne’s recruits, but Paul was my deputy throughout my time as Head of the Film Departmen[…]
[…] he likes to come to it fresh and is an idea as opposed to a pre conceived type of music. I remember on Witchfinder General the the composer was also Paul Farris and he was a great friend of Mike Read a close together and and he actually did some scenes`s basic you know to the piano shape. And and t[…]
[…]and then, er, were offered the next film that Tony did in er, Rome, and…in Assisi actually, which was called ‘The Small Miracle’ originally, it was a Paul Gallico story, and er…so then er….erm…it was er…it was shot in Assisi. Mimi came up there, and lived with me in Rome. We were then married, and e[…]
[…]r that job. And anyway, as time went on it was clear he was the wrong appointment and by agreement we decided to change, by agreement we then went to Paul McKee who was at ITN who did a very good transitional job and with agreement we then went to Stewart Purvis who actually really brought the progr[…]
[…]sp;0:26 Right I was born 1932. And I was born in Bristol. My father worked for W. D. and H. O. Wills the tobacco company. He started there as a young man and ended there as an old man. I mean, he, his whole life was spent with them. And he was a traveller but a commercial traveller. And we mov[…]
