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Christopher J. Menges, Christopher Menges
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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 and editor in the 1960s and 1970s, traveling wherever there was war and insurrection - Burma, Angola, Vietnam and Tibet - while working with filmmaker Adrian Cowell. Once he made the permanent jump to feature films in the 1980s, Menges developed a style as a cinematographer that never overwhelmed audiences with gaudy colors or outlandish camera moves In fact, Menges understood the oft-accepted theory that color could be less realistic than black and white, because it focused the audience away from emotion to an object. Menges' work was defined by a low-key naturalism, plain composition, and a mix of lenses to tug at the audience at the appropriate moments, which helped him craft memorable images in several award-winning films, including "The Killing Fields" (1984), "Michael Collins" (1996) and "The Reader" (2008). IMDb mini bio by yusufpiskin
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1940-09-15
- event Death Date Unknown
- school Known for: Camera
- star Popularity: 2.5
- info Birth Place Kington, Herefordshire, England, UK
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Chris Menges
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Making Kes
2010-09-01
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The South Bank Show: 'Local Hero'
1983-02-27
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Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter
2012-03-27
6.6
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
2016-06-30
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Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
1985-12-31
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Spécial cinéma
1974-09-25
5.5
The Guldbagge Awards
1981-10-30
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5.5
Notes on a Scandal
2006-12-25
5.5
The Killing Fields
1984-11-23
5.5
Michael Collins
1996-10-25
5.5
Dirty Pretty Things
2002-09-05
5.5
Local Hero
1983-02-17
5.5
The Pledge
2001-01-19
5.5
The Good Thief
2003-04-02
5.5
The Lost Son
1999-06-25
5.5
The Mission
1986-09-24
5.5
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
2005-11-17
5.5
The Reader
2008-12-10
5.5
North Country
2005-02-12
5.5
Stop-Loss
2008-03-28
5.5
Criminal
2004-09-10
5.5
A World Apart
1988-06-17
5.5
CrissCross
1992-05-08
5.5
Second Best
1994-09-30
5.5
Route Irish
2011-03-16
5.5
High Season
1987-09-01
5.5
Hummingbird
2013-05-07
5.5
Angel
1982-05-14
5.5
The Save the Children Fund Film
1971-01-01
5.5
The Red and the Blue
1983-10-01
5.5
A Question of Leadership
1981-08-13
5.5
Auditions
1980-12-23
5.5
Looks and Smiles
1981-09-09
5.5
The Gamekeeper
1980-09-20
5.5
Which Side Are You On?
1985-04-08
5.5
Fatherland
1986-09-02
5.5
if....
1968-12-19
5.5
Tickets
2005-03-25
5.5
Dirty Pretty Things
2002-09-05
5.5
Loving Memory
1970-09-21
5.5
Warlords of the 21st Century
1982-01-01
5.5
Shy People
1987-05-14
5.5
The Boxer
1997-12-31
5.5
Bloody Kids
1980-03-22
5.5
The War Game
1963-07-31
5.5
A Sense of Freedom
1985-10-18
5.5
R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only
1983-07-02
5.5
London Boulevard
2010-11-10
5.5
Made in Britain
1982-02-25
5.5
After a Lifetime
1971-07-18
5.5
Gumshoe
1971-12-01
5.5
Kes
1970-04-03
5.5
Winter Flight
1984-12-20
5.5
Last Summer
1977-07-22
5.5
Comfort and Joy
1984-08-14
5.5
Israel: After the Earthquake
1974-05-26
5.5
Raid Into Tibet
1966-05-09
5.5
Black Jack
1979-09-09
5.5
Babylon
1980-11-07
5.5
Solo
1968-01-01
5.5
A Boy Called Donovan
1966-01-19
5.5
Dummy
1977-11-09
5.5
It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow
1975-10-08
5.5
Walter
1982-11-02
5.5
Walter and June
1983-04-30
5.5
The Tribe That Hides from Man
1970-02-17
5.5
Hummingbird
2013-05-07
5.5
Ex Machina
2015-01-21
5.5
Waiting for the Barbarians
2019-09-06
5.5
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011-12-25
5.5
Black Beauty
1971-04-01
5.5
Poor Cow
1967-12-05
5.5
Marie: A True Story
1985-09-27
5.5
The Yellow Handkerchief
2009-11-19
5.5
Concert for George
2003-10-03
5.5
Talk About Work
1971-12-31
5.5
The Heroin Wars
1996-07-06