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
Known for
CameraBirthday
September 15, 1940Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
71Place of birth
Kington, Herefordshire, England, UKAlso known as
Christopher J. Menges, Christopher Menges
Cast credits
Crew credits
The Killing Fields
Director of Photography
Notes on a Scandal
Director of Photography
Michael Collins
Director of Photography
Dirty Pretty Things
Director of Photography, Camera Operator
Local Hero
Director of Photography
The Pledge
Director of Photography
The Good Thief
Director of Photography
The Mission
Director of Photography
The Lost Son
Director
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Director of Photography
The Reader
Director of Photography
Stop-Loss
Director of Photography
North Country
Director of Photography
Criminal
Director of Photography
A World Apart
Director
CrissCross
Director
Route Irish
Director of Photography
Second Best
Director
High Season
Director of Photography
Hummingbird
Director of Photography
A Sense of Freedom
Director of PhotographyImages
