Miklos & Me
Miklós Jancsó poses with the author. Photo by Shu Moon Leung.
Man, I look OLD! I thought posing with a living legend filmmaker aged 86, I would maybe look younger by contrast, but I think maybe some of his senescence has RUBBED OFF on me.
Age, of course, is relative. I once cast the actress Julie Cox in something that then didn’t get made, but she told me about working on a TV version of 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA directed by Michael Anderson. Anderson was an AD at the same time as Guy Hamilton and my old pal Lawrie Knight, so he must have been about 80 at this time, “and he was the youngest person on that set.” He apparently has a much younger wife, which is reckoned to help.
So my teaching job is a healthy activity, as well as keeping me just about above water financially. I am surrounded by enthusiastic young folks like Shu Moon.
shadowplay 
March 27, 2008 at 2:49 am
I’m more concerned that you’re promoting Diet Coke with that image!
March 27, 2008 at 3:00 am
Oh you still look young. ish. Not as young as you’d like, but then none of us is as young as we’d like.
March 27, 2008 at 11:52 am
I went looking for a Coke slogan that would fit this pic. They all do, but the stunningly right one is from 1886 — “Red White & You” !!!
April 29, 2010 at 1:18 am
Stumbled across this and my eyes popped!!!
Wow! What was he like in person?
The Round Up has to be one of the best films ever made, it just has to be!
It’s interesting seeing Bela Tarr’s film Werckmeister Harmonies, and spotting a couple of shots lifted entirely from Jancso’s picture.
April 29, 2010 at 10:43 am
he was very pleasant. He speaks no English, so his interview was translated by his son… who couldn’t seem to be bothered to translate anything very thoroughly. But still, Jansco Snr was very nice.
Missed the opportunity to snap him staring with fascination at the poster for Hou’s Fight of the Red Balloon, which would have been a lovely moment to capture.