Writer and director whose best-known films captured London life over several decades
The director and writer Anthony Simmons, who has died aged 93, had a flair for conveying a sense of time and place that owed much to the films he saw on his travels as a young man. “I make European films,” he once said. “My first real contact with film was in Rome watching the neorealists filming in the streets. I never had any training as a film-maker. I came into the industry as an outsider who never quite fitted into the slots of the British film industry.”
Simmons worked across that industry, as a maker of documentaries and shorts, then feature films and, later, as a jobbing director on television dramas. It was at the heart of postwar European cinema that he was first recognised, receiving the Venice film festival grand prix for his documentary Sunday By the...
The director and writer Anthony Simmons, who has died aged 93, had a flair for conveying a sense of time and place that owed much to the films he saw on his travels as a young man. “I make European films,” he once said. “My first real contact with film was in Rome watching the neorealists filming in the streets. I never had any training as a film-maker. I came into the industry as an outsider who never quite fitted into the slots of the British film industry.”
Simmons worked across that industry, as a maker of documentaries and shorts, then feature films and, later, as a jobbing director on television dramas. It was at the heart of postwar European cinema that he was first recognised, receiving the Venice film festival grand prix for his documentary Sunday By the...
- 2/11/2016
- by Anthony Hayward
- The Guardian - Film News
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