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2046 Scoops Hong Kong Film Awards
C hristopher Doyle, Lai Yiu Fai and Kwan Bun Leung picked up the Best Cinematography award for 2046 at the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards, which
took place on March 27.
Wong Kar-wai’s acclaimed film also
picked up awards for Actor (Tony Leung Chiu Wai), Actress (Zhang Zi Yi), Art Direction (William Chang Suk Ping & Alfred Yau Wai Ming), Costume and Make-up Design
(William Chang Suk Ping) and Original Film Score (Peer Raben & Shigeru Umebayashi).
Handled by Eddie Tsoi at Tai Fung (TSOI’S) Company Limited, Fujifilm’s Hong Kong distributor, 2046 was originat- ed on 35mm Super-250 8552 motion picture negative. ■
Underworld Acclaim
The Long Firm, BBC2’s much- praised four-parter based on the bestseller by Jake Arnott, scooped no fewer than seven BAFTA TV nominations including Drama Serial, Actor (Mark Strong) and Photography (Fiction) for DP Sean Bobbitt.
Principally originated on 16mm Super Fuji F-500 8572, the story of fictional London gangster Harry Starks (Strong) was also cited for Costume Design, Graphic Design, Sound and Editing.
Named too in the BAFTA TV Craft nominations was Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace (originated on 16mm Super F-400 8682) which earned Andrew Hewitt a nod in the category for
The Anthony Asquith Award for New British Composer. ■
Wallace & Gromit’s Big Screen Bow (Wow!)
Photos above: Award winning stars of
Wong Kar-wai’s 2046 and left, DP Christopher Doyle
A fter a series of award-winning clay-animated shorts (The
Wrong Trousers, A Grand Day Out, A Close Shave), Aardman’s much-loved char-
acters Wallace and Gromit make their feature film debut this autumn.
The Curse Of The Were Rabbit, stars the voices of Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, John Thomson, Peter Kay and, of course, Peter Sallis (‘Wallace’) in a tale of vege-mania.
The intrepid man-and-dog duo have been cashing in as elite pest-con- trol duo “Anti-pesto” (pictured with their van) and business is booming until an unexplained, nocturnal, veg- ravaging rabbit monster begins attack-
ing the town’s sacred vegetable plots, putting the future of the competition in jeopardy.
Will Wallace and Gromit rise to the occasion, or will Lady Tottington’s (Bonham Carter) arrogant suitor, Victor Quartermaine (Fiennes), step in to save the day?
With two directors (Nick Park, Steve Box) and two DPs (Dave Alex Riddett, Tristan Oliver), Aardman’s full length follow-up to their debut feature, Chicken Run (also shot on Fuji), was filmed at the company’s studios in Bristol. ■
The Curse Of The Were Rabbit
was originated on 35mm F-125 8532 motion picture negative
Photos left: The Long Firm star Mark Strong; above: DP Sean Bobbitt
Correction
In issue 30 of EXPOSURE, we stated
that Roberto Contreras was Tony Imi’s operator on Three. It was, in fact,
Dion M Casey. ■
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