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This film was celebrated at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival and won three major awards. His second film as director, CrissCross with Goldie Hawn, received critical acclaim but was a box-office flop. In 1996 he moved back behind the camera to shoot the award-winning films The Boxer (directed by Jim Sheridan) and Michael Collins. For the latter, he ...
Chris Menges. Cinematographer. Camera and Electrical Department. Director. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. As an Academy Award-winning cinematographer who made the successful segue to directing features, Chris Menges has carved out a successful, but understated career. Menges got his start as an assistant editor and camera operator and even worked ...
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- Kington, Herefordshire, England, UK
Alistair Moffatt looks at the career of two-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer Chris Menges, BSC, ASC.Menges discusses his early career in television...
Chris Menges. Cinematographer: Michael Collins. As an Academy Award-winning cinematographer who made the successful segue to directing features, Chris Menges has carved out a successful, but understated career. Menges got his start as an assistant editor and camera operator and even worked as a sound recordist several times, before working his way up to director of photography. Menges had his ...
Dec 2, 2020 · Dec 02, 2020. If anyone on this planet is a natural-born cinematographer, it might just be Chris Menges. His earthiness and pragmatism combined with his uncanny, innate sensibility for the moving image are what make his films special: Kes, The Killing Fields, and The Mission, to name just a few. If you haven’t seen them, then trust us that ...
Apr 15, 2018 · The same year, Menges shot Poor Cow with Ken Loach, working as camera operator for director of photography, Brian Probyn. “Ken and I had seen Blonde in Love ,” Menges recalls, “and when we were doing Poor Cow , we talked, between us, about how much we had enjoyed Miloš Forman’s film because of the dignity and how the story was told and ...
As an Academy Award-winning cinematographer who made the successful segue to directing features, Chris Menges has carved out a successful, but understated career. Menges got his start as an assistant editor and camera operator and even worked as a sound recordist several times, before working his way up to director of photography. Menges had his first real break as a documentary cameraperson ...
