[…] coverage that week which our Celebrity Guest opening had provided for them. For Peter and I, with that event safely tucked away, it was time to fine polish our plans for the Tyneside Summer Exhibition event and the Lord Mayor’s Parade float. THE RUSTIC DELIGHTS OF THE TOWN MOOR IN SUMMER! […]
[…]tting room floor. I guess the best part of nine months probably longer while we tried to sort it out. And of course we went to preview and then again Polish band had never been through any of this before.SPEAKER: M3And this was this was death to hip cultural death. He hated it. He was so miserable. […]
[…]hose sort of techniques at all or those sort of convictions about the nature of film culture for example.In 1959 or even ‘60 there was a programme of Polish documentaries at the National Film Theatre and I went to see this and it was stunning, there were 10 minute ones, 15 minute ones, perhaps a hal[…]
[…]o I thought to myself, if I ever get to luck, have the luck to become a lighting camera man. Once you make, make your design stick to it, do a little polishing here, but don't change the whole thing around. And nobody ever saw his brilliance, because he was not only a great artist, but a great techn[…]
[…] of the night, so on came to London, and he's a writer. And he's a wonderful writer in both Spanish and English, in the same way that Conrad wrote in Polish and English. Guillermo, as we called him, wrote in Spanish or Chinese or Spanish man of letters, I discovered he's got he wrote a wonderful boo[…]
[…]d written for him and then a little later on I did the same thing down at Warner Brothers.RF: How exactly did that come about, they came to you for a polish job or dialogue?VG: No I did the whole script.RF: They commissioned the script from you.VG: I used to work with Lupino Lane very closely, we we[…]
[…] were launched. They all took pity on these poor starving Polish refugees from this horrible England. The English colony thought […]
[…]yed me once or twice, three-times, I don't know, to do things for Derek Prouse. And he did give me the commission to go to Poland and investigate the Polish cinema.I had known the Poles a bit ever since seeing way back Wajda's first film at Cannes, A Generation, and then Wajda's next films, and inde[…]
[…] me the commission to go to Poland and investigate the Polish cinema. I had known the Poles a bit ever […]
[…]ft. And I cut a number of films there, an air-force instructional film for a director called Cecil Musk, who was a very dear man, he used to put boot polish on his hair. And he saw himself as an old-time movie director, and so was known affectionately as 'Cecil B. DeMusk'! [Laughs] And he actually u[…]
