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MOTION PICTURE • CINEMATOGRAPHY • DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
C inematographer Dick Pope BSC and director Mike Leigh have been making films
together for nearly 20 years since they first collaborated on Life Is Sweet in 1990. Their eighth and latest film, HAPPY-GO-LUCKY,
a colourful and vivid comedy set in contemporary London, has just won true
Brit Sally Hawkins the Best Actress award at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. In our Cover Story, Pope and Leigh reflect on their unique partnership.
There are more fascinating tales from Behind The Camera with career profiles of four very different cameramen. Brian Tufano BSC started as a page boy aged 16 at BBC’s Lime Grove Studios eventually to become one of the Corporation’s more versatile award- winning lensmen before moving into drama in TV then also films like The Evacuees, Quadrophenia, Mr Wroe’s Virgins, Middlemarch, Trainspotting, East Is East and Billy Elliot. Truly the Best of British. These days he tirelessly interweaves work on films such as Kidulthood and its sequel ADULTHOOD with running the Cinematography Department at the National Film & Television School.
Compared with Tufano, Christopher Ross is a comparative novice, but at just 32 he has become remarkably prolific following his feature debut on the award-winning London To Brighton. In the past year, he has completed no fewer than three new cinema features, THE COTTAGE, EDEN LAKE and CASS.
Although based in Berlin, Florian Hoffmeister has been mostly plying his craft in the UK with Cracker, Five Days and, most recently, A NUMBER, co-starring Tom Wilkinson and Rhys Ifans in an adaptation of Caryl Churchill’s play about cloning. James Welland boasts big and small screen credits over the past 20 years including, of late, Touching Evil, Trial & Retribution and Magicians. With Ken Stott and Maxine Peake in the eponymous roles, he has just shot for BBC4 HANCOCK & JOAN, recounting the final, tortured daysofthegreatcomicgenius.
Rewind nearly 200 years for MISS AUSTEN REGRETS, a recreation of the last years of one of history’s greatest – and still most popular – writers.
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DP David Katznelson explains how they captured Jane Austen’s world for the BBC One drama and, in an exclusive, actress Olivia Williams writes for us about bringing the role to life. Fast-forward into the more recent past for an insight by DP James Aspinall and director Tristram Powell into making the final three episodes of ITV’s popular award-winning drama series, FOYLE’S WAR. Very much of now is the new British film 3 AND OUT, co-starring Mackenzie Crook and Colm Meaney as an unlikely pair of conspirators in a scam involving London Underground. First time feature director Jonathan Gershfield and DP Richard Greatrex BSC reveal some trade secrets behind the shooting of this fast-paced black comedy,
which also features Imelda Staunton and the
new Bond girl, Gemma Arterton.
Julian Schnabel’s THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY, based on Jean-Dominique’s astonishing memoir communicated on to paper with just the blink of an eye, is currently proving to be not only an award- winner but also one of the more successful subtitled films this year. Schnabel and DP Janusz Kaminski ASC talk about how they conceived the visuals. Our other Features in Focus are a Welsh-set comedy,
THE BAKER, directed by Gareth Lewis and starring his more famous brother Damian Lewis, the Cannes prize-winning GARAGE, from Irish director Lenny Abrahamson and DP Peter Robertson, and Harmony Korine’s bizarre film about the world of celebrity look-alikes, MISTER LONELY, which was lit by Michael Winterbottom-regular Marcel Zyskind.
All this plus Sneak Previews of THE OXFORD MURDERS, DANGEROUS PARKING, ANGUS, THONGS & FULL-FRONTAL SNOGGING and IS THERE ANYBODY THERE?, a COMMERCIAL BREAK on the London Eye-based ad for First Direct, a report on one of the new NFTS graduation films, REALITY WON’T BITE, as well as a round-up of the latest Fujifilm news including recent award-winners,inFestivals&Events. ■
MILLIE MORROW MANAGING EDITOR www.fujifilm.co.uk/motion
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