The Wall directed by Alan Parker holds up even today.
Love it or hate it there is no middle ground.
One of Alan Parkers friends told him "well at least you got that out of your system"
Back in the 1970's Shepperton Studios was the smaller of the big three studios in the UK. EMI had Kubrick, Pinewood had Bond and Shepperton took up the smaller films like Flash Gordon, The River Queen and Oliver, the exterior set still surviving.
The Studios were adjacent to Queen Mary Reservoir and my home sailing club and on some Weekends one could hear the Moody Blues and The Who rehearsing. According to my father "art is a contagious disease of life" so it became inevitable I too was about to succumb.
Two of a few commercials I art directed for Howard Guard back in the 80's. An iconic director in an era of iconic directors
Our studio, a run-down Methodist Church in Battersea was empty, not what one wants when a potential client visits. Terry arrived along his vfx supervisor and DoP. We had a long table usually occupied with jobs in hand, models, references, etc, but now glaringly bare. It was soon filled with references from Ghormogast by Mervyn Peake and Paraniesi