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person_profile-Chris Menges

Chris Menges Age: 84

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Chris Menges

Date of Birth:

Sep 15, 1940

Country of birth:

UK

Biography of

Chris Menges

    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

Photos of

Chris Menges

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Filmography of

Chris Menges

Found 6 Movies in total

How to Make a Ken Loach Film

Interviewee ( Actor )

... 2016

... 2016

... 2012

Making Kes

Himself ( Actor )

... 2010

... 1985

... 1983