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
Making Kes
(Self)
The South Bank Show: 'Local Hero'
(Self)
Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter
(Self)
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
(Self - Cinematographer)
Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
(Self)
Spécial cinéma
(Self)
The Guldbagge Awards
(Self - Best Foreign Language Film winner)
Notes on a Scandal
(Director of Photography)
The Killing Fields
(Director of Photography)
Michael Collins
(Director of Photography)
Dirty Pretty Things
(Director of Photography)
Local Hero
(Director of Photography)
The Pledge
(Director of Photography)
The Good Thief
(Director of Photography)
The Lost Son
(Director)
The Mission
(Director of Photography)
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
(Director of Photography)
The Reader
(Director of Photography)
North Country
(Director of Photography)
Stop-Loss
(Director of Photography)
Criminal
(Director of Photography)
A World Apart
(Director)
CrissCross
(Director)
Second Best
(Director)
Route Irish
(Director of Photography)
High Season
(Director of Photography)
Hummingbird
(Director of Photography)
Angel
(Director of Photography)
The Save the Children Fund Film
(Director of Photography)
A Question of Leadership
(Director of Photography)
The Red and the Blue
(Director of Photography)
Looks and Smiles
(Director of Photography)
The Gamekeeper
(Director of Photography)
Auditions
(Director of Photography)
Fatherland
(Director of Photography)
Which Side Are You On?
(Director of Photography)
if....
(Camera Operator)
Tickets
(Director of Photography)
Dirty Pretty Things
(Camera Operator)
Loving Memory
(Director of Photography)
Bloody Kids
(Director of Photography)
Shy People
(Director of Photography)
The War Game
(Director of Photography)
A Sense of Freedom
(Director of Photography)
The Boxer
(Director of Photography)
Warlords of the 21st Century
(Director of Photography)
R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only
(Director of Photography)
London Boulevard
(Director of Photography)
Made in Britain
(Director of Photography)
After a Lifetime
(Director of Photography)
Gumshoe
(Director of Photography)
Kes
(Director of Photography)
A Boy Called Donovan
(Director of Photography)
Dummy
(Director of Photography)
It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow
(Director of Photography)
Solo
(Director of Photography)
Last Summer
(Director of Photography)
Raid Into Tibet
(Director of Photography)
Black Jack
(Director of Photography)
Babylon
(Director of Photography)
Winter Flight
(Director of Photography)
Comfort and Joy
(Director of Photography)
Israel: After the Earthquake
(Director of Photography)
Walter
(Director of Photography)
Walter and June
(Director of Photography)
The Tribe That Hides from Man
(Director of Photography)
Hummingbird
("A" Camera Operator)
Ex Machina
(Thanks)
Waiting for the Barbarians
(Director of Photography)
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
(Director of Photography)
Black Beauty
(Director of Photography)
Poor Cow
(Camera Operator)
Marie
(Director of Photography)
The Yellow Handkerchief
(Director of Photography)
Concert for George
(Director of Photography)
The Heroin Wars
(Camera Operator)