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Chris Menges is a Director, Director of Photography and Cinematography British born on 15 september 1940 at Kington, Herefordshire (United-kingdom)
Chris Menges BSC, ASC, (born 15 September 1940) is an English cinematographer and film director. He is a member of both the American and British Societies of Cinematographers.
(2009)
(Director of Photography)
(2012)
(Director of Photography)
(2006)
(Director of Photography)
(2015)
(Thanks)
(1984)
(Director of Photography)
(2005)
(Director of Photography)
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 15 september 1940 (83 years) at Kington, Herefordshire (United-kingdom)
Awards Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Birth 15 september 1940 (83 years) at Kington, Herefordshire (United-kingdom)
Awards Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Chris Menges BSC, ASC, (born 15 September 1940) is an English cinematographer and film director. He is a member of both the American and British Societies of Cinematographers.
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(2009)(Director of Photography)
(2012)(Director of Photography)
(2006)(Director of Photography)
(2015)(Thanks)
(1984)(Director of Photography)
(2005)(Director of Photography)
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The Lost Son (1999)
, 1h42Directed by Chris Menges
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about pedophilia
Actors Daniel Auteuil, Nastassja Kinski, Ciarán Hinds, Katrin Cartlidge, Marianne Denicourt, Billie Whitelaw
Rating63%
Xavier Lombard is a Parisian private detective based in London. His best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a telephone call from an old friend in the Paris police department, now a businessman whose brother-in-law is missing. The missing man's parents hire Xavier over their daughter's objections, and he quickly finds himself caught up in the underworld of child sex slavery. He guesses that the lost son is dead and shifts his focus to finding and breaking this lucrative business of child trafficking. He gets a reluctant Nathalie to hunt "the Austrian", the shadowy head of the business. Violence erupts quickly, and Xavier soon has little more to lose.
Second Best (1994)
Directed by Chris Menges
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about families
Actors William Hurt, John Hurt, Jane Horrocks, Alan Cumming, Prunella Scales, Keith Allen
Rating67%
Graham Holt (William Hurt) is a single man aged 42, who attempts to adopt a 10-year-old boy. Graham is a sub-postmaster in Warwickshire, England. James Lennards (Chris Cleary Miles) is a disturbed child brought up in care. Graham wants a son, but James doesn't want another father.
CrissCross (1992)
, 1h40Directed by Chris Menges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Goldie Hawn, Arliss Howard, Anna Thomson, Keith Carradine, James Gammon, Steve Buscemi
Rating58%
Divorced mom Tracy Cross raises her 12-year-old son, Christopher, in Key West in 1969 around the time of the Apollo 11 moon landing. A waitress, she becomes a stripper to support herself and Chris.The film includes a scene where fourteen-year-old actor David Arnott appears nude (though shot from behind).
A World Apart (1988)
, 1h52Directed by Chris Menges
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about racism
Actors Jodhi May, Barbara Hershey, Jeroen Krabbé, Tim Roth, David Suchet, Kate Fitzpatrick
Rating70%
Set in Johannesburg in 1963, the film examines the abrupt ending of 13-year-old Molly's blithe childhood when her father, a member of the South African Communist Party, is sent into exile. Ostracised by her peers, Molly draws closer to her mother as she attempts to further the campaign against apartheid. Their relationship is challenged by hardship, political intimidation, and the older woman's eventual arrest.
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Waiting for the Barbarians (2019)
, 1h52Directed by Ciro Guerra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Greta Scacchi, Harry Melling, David Dencik
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59%
Dans un désert sans nom et un temps incertain, un magistrat britannique gère un fort qui marque la frontière de l'Empire. Le pouvoir central s'inquiète d'une invasion barbare et dépêche sur les lieux le colonel Joll, un tortionnaire de la pire espèce. Parmi les hommes et les femmes ramenés au fort et torturés, une jeune fille blessée attire l'attention du Magistrat qui finit par partir avec elle. Mais, rejeté par le peuple nomade dont elle est originaire, le Magistrat s'en retourne auprès des siens. Accusé de trahison, il va à son tour passer par les mains du bourreau.
Hummingbird (2013)
, 1h40Directed by Steven Knight
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Aviation films, Erotic thriller films, Robot films
Actors Jason Statham, Vicky McClure, Dai Bradley, Christian Brassington, Benedict Wong, Agata Buzek
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
Joseph Smith (Jason Statham) is an ex-Special Forces veteran who went AWOL from his unit in Afghanistan, and now lives as a homeless drunk in London. One night while fleeing thugs who were shaking down the homeless, he breaks into an apartment and discovers the owner, a photographer named Damon, will be in New York for several months until the first of October. He begins to assume the life of the owner, driving his car and living in the apartment, calling himself Joey Jones, and spends his time looking for his homeless friend Isabel (Victoria Bewick), from whom he was separated in the streets. He finds Damon's new debit card in the apartment mail, and begins a regimen of self-improvement. Meanwhile Isabel has been coerced into becoming a prostitute by the same thug that hassled her and Joey.
, 2h9Directed by Stephen Daldry
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on the September 11 attacks, Films about children, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Aviation films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Dans un avion, Films about autism, Disaster films, Films about hijackings
Actors Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Horn, Max von Sydow, Viola Davis, John Goodman
Roles Director of Photography
Rating69%
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn) is the son of German American Thomas Schell (Tom Hanks). Thomas would often send Oskar on missions to do something involving one of his riddles. The last riddle he ever gives Oskar is proof that New York City once possessed a Sixth Borough. In a flashback, Thomas and Oskar play a scavenger hunt to find objects throughout New York City. The game requires communication with other people and is not easy for the socially awkward Oskar who is told "If things were easy to find, they wouldn't be worth finding".
Route Irish (2011)
, 1h49Directed by Ken Loach
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Mark Womack, Andrea Lowe, Stephen Lord, Najwa Nimri, John Bishop
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
The film opens on a ferry in Liverpool, as Fergus Molloy (Mark Womack) remembers the final messages sent to him by his lifelong friend Frankie (John Bishop), whose funeral he is to attend. The night before, Molloy unseals his friend's coffin to see his friend's badly injured corpse. At the funeral, Haynes (Jack Fortune) a director of the private military company that Molloy and Frankie worked for, gives a eulogy praising Frankie and describing military contractors as the "unsung heroes of our time". Afterwards, Haynes and Walker (Geoff Bell) explain to Frankie's family the circumstances of his death, though Molloy remains embittered and closely questions the two men. Later at the wake, Molloy attacks Haynes when he sees him distributing his business card to enlisted soldiers there.
London Boulevard (2010)
, 1h43Directed by William Monahan
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Mob film, Action, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Gangster films
Actors Colin Farrell, Keira Knightley, David Thewlis, Anna Friel, Ben Chaplin, Ray Winstone
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
The film opens with Harry Mitchel (Colin Farrell) (convicted of GBH under never-explained circumstances) leaving prison. He is propositioned by his friend and former partner-in-crime, Billy Norton (Ben Chaplin), to live in a nice 'acquired' apartment, but on condition he work for Billy's criminal boss. On his way to a 'welcome back' party, Mitchel saves a woman, Penny (Ophelia Lovibond), from being mugged. At the party, Billy propositions Mitchel again. Mitchel is told by Billy and their contact, Danny (Stephen Graham), that his sister, Briony (Anna Friel) is in the basement, and he "saves" her from being raped by a drug addict. Mitchel meets Penny for a drink elesewhere, and she offers him a job to help her friend, a reclusive famous 'retired' young actress, Charlotte.
The Reader (2009)
, 2h4Directed by Stephen Daldry
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Lena Olin, Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara Claudia Paolina
Roles Director of Photography
Rating75%
Berlin in 1995. Michael Berg watches an U-Bahn pass by—then flashing back to a tram in 1958 Neustadt. A 15-year-old Michael (David Kross) gets off because he feels sick and wanders the streets, pausing in the entryway of a nearby apartment building where he vomits. Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet), a tram conductor, comes in and helps him return home.
The Yellow Handkerchief (2009)
, 1h42Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors William Hurt, Maria Bello, Kristen Stewart, Eddie Redmayne, Kaori Momoi, Marco St. John
Roles Director of Photography
Rating66%
After being released from prison after six years, ex-convict Brett Hanson becomes lost in a new and unfamiliar world of freedoms and responsibilities. Struggling to reconcile himself with his disastrous past, he embarks on a journey to his home of Southern Louisiana to reunite with the ex-wife he left behind, May (Maria Bello). Along this journey, he meets two teenagers: Martine (Kristen Stewart), a troubled 15-year-old who has just escaped her family, and Gordy (Eddie Redmayne), a geeky outcast desperately seeking acceptance. Martine and Gordy offer to give Brett a lift home, and on the ensuing road trip the three reflect on their own personal misfit status while discovering in themselves and each other the acceptance each so deeply desires. Brett weighs whether to start a new life or rekindle his love with May – he's not sure she'll take him back – while Martine reevaluates her relationships with boys and her family and Gordy struggles with his affection for Martine.
Stop-Loss (2008)
, 1h52Directed by Kimberly Peirce
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Political films
Actors Ryan Phillippe, Channing Tatum, Abbie Cornish, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Timothy Olyphant, Rob Brown
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Brandon King (Ryan Phillippe) leads a squad stationed in Tikrit during the Iraq War. The film begins with footage from the tour of the squad, explaining they have 28 days before returning to the United States.
Notes on a Scandal (2006)
, 1h32Directed by Richard Eyre
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about education, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy, Andrew Simpson, Juno Temple, Tom Georgeson
Roles Director of Photography
Rating73%
Barbara Covett (Judi Dench) is a history teacher at a comprehensive school in London. A spinster nearing retirement, her comfort is her diary. When an art teacher, Sheba Hart (Cate Blanchett), joins the staff, Barbara is at first attracted to her. However, when she discovers that Sheba is having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old student, Steven Connolly (Andrew Simpson), she confronts her.
Tickets (2005)
, 1h49Directed by Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach, Ermanno Olmi
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Carlo Delle Piane, Martin Compston, Carolina Benvenga, Roberto Nobile, Chiara Gensini
Roles Director of Photography
Rating68%
L'histoire se déroule dans un train traversant l'Italie pour aller à Rome. À bord, se trouve une famille de réfugiés albanais, un professeur qui rêve de parler à un amour perdu, trois écossais amateurs de football et une veuve dont le mari vient de décéder. Les échanges entre toutes ces personnes vont rendre le voyage moins long : où courtoisie, bonté, nationalisme et opportunités vont se mélanger.
, 2h1Directed by Tommy Lee Jones
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime, Western
Actors Barry Pepper, Julio César Cedillo, Dwight Yoakam, January Jones, Tommy Lee Jones, Melissa Leo
Roles Director of Photography
Rating72%
The film has many flashbacks and sometimes the same event is shown twice from different perspectives.