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ISSUE42 SUMMER2008
To Eastbourne, for a gentle take by Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha on the trials and tribulations of young teenagers in Angus, Thongs And Perfect Snogging, based on the first two in the best-selling Confessions of Georgia Nicholson series of books by Louise Rennison. The film, starring Georgia Groome, marks the inaugural collaboration of Chadha and DP Dick Pope BSC, “a complete and utter artist”, according to the irre- pressible director, now mother of twins.
Slightly older teenagers are featured in another contemporary comedy, Wild Child, lit by Chris Seager BSC, in which Malibu “princess” Poppy, played by superstar Julia Roberts’ niece, Emma Roberts, learns about real life in
an English girls’ boarding school. It’s the directing debut feature of former ace editor Nick Moore. The laughs are also likely to be plentiful in A Bunch Of Amateurs about a hasbeen Hollywood action hero (Burt Reynolds) who stumbles into an am-dram pro- duction of King Lear in rural Suffolk. Ashley Rowe BSC talks to us about “staging” in the
Isle of Man.
We celebrate the success
and enthusiasm of 12 young and
talented Cinematographers in a special section dedicated to their views and aspirations. All that plus impressions of Eterna-RDI by top colourist Peter Doyle and Copenhagen’s DFL, which recent- ly restored Sergio Leone’s A Fistful Of Dollars, first in the Man With No Name trilogy, an explo- sive year in the life of Barry Ackroyd BSC, a con- versation with Runa Islam, one of this year’s quartet of Turner Prize nominees, and a sneak preview of Stephen Frears’ new period romantic drama Chéri, featuring our Cover girl Michelle Pfeiffer, as well as a round-up of the latest Fujifilm news including recent award-winners, in Festivals & Events.
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ob Hardy, who won for Best Cinematography R(Fiction) at this year’s British Academy
Television Craft Awards, leads off our trio of Behind The Camera profiles. Boy A, his award-winning collaboration with director
John Crowley, also resulted in three other BAFTA masks for the searing Channel 4 drama. Now he and Crowley have re-united for their first feature togeth- er, Is There Anybody There? starring Michael Caine, Anne Marie-Duff, David Morrissey and talented youngster Bill Milner.
A self-confessed comics and cinema fan since his youth, Shane Daly has worked his way up the ranks. After top episodic TV like Wire In The Blood and the award-winning second series of The Street, he is now shooting a major new British gangster thriller, The Big I Am, with a transatlantic cast including Leo Gregory, Vincent Regan and one-time Reservoir Dog Michael Madsen. Another graduate of the camera department ‘ladder’, Angus Hudson cites painterly influences in his rise to lighting cam- eraman. Sean Ellis’s Cashback and the dark super- natural thriller The Broken, with 300 star Lena Headey, are a pair of his recent feature credits.
Another major award-winner being featured in this issue is Steve McQueen, perhaps best known to date as 1999’s Turner Prizewinning artist. That’s now all likely to change following his Camera D’Or for best first feature at Cannes last month. Hunger, lit by Sean Bobbitt BSC, tells the harrowing story of the last days in 1981 of Maze hunger striker Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender). According to McQueen, the film, which was entered in the festival’s Un Certain Regard sec- tion, has “contemporary resonance”.
Another true tale is recreated in Jon S Blair’s Cass, in which Nonso Anozie plays one-time foot- ball hooligan Cass Pennant who turned his life around to become a writer, publisher and self- styled “hooliologist”. You also suspect that the truth is never too far from the fiction in Adulthood, written, directed by and starring Noel Clarke, sequel to the successful British street thriller Kidulthood, which also featured the expert cine- matography of veteran Brian Tufano BSC.
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