Quentin Falk talks about his new biography of British filmmaker Charles Crichton
The history of classic British films is littered with supreme examples of serial collaborations between director and cinematographer: Freddie Young and David Lean, Ossie Morris and John Huston, Chris Challis and Jack Cardiff with Powell and Pressburger. But surely trumping all those for at least sheer abundance has to be the remarkable association of Douglas Slocombe OBE BSC ASC and Charles Crichton, which spanned a dozen films across more … Read more