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THE FUJI PHOTO FILM UK MAGAZINE • AUTUMN 1998
ERIC MOULD
DIVISIONAL MANAGER FUJIFILM MOTION PICTURE & PROFESSIONAL VIDEO TAPE
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T his month’s Cover Story focuses on ALEX THOMSON, a doyen of the British film industry whose 50-year plus career has taken him from the camera department at the old Denham Studios in the 1940s to the high-tech sound stages at Burbank, Hollywood in the Nineties. On the way he’s acquired a stack of trophies including BSC Cinematography awards for his work on Legend and Hamlet as
well as an Oscar nomination for Excalibur.
Ten years Thomson’s junior but perhaps as widely travelled is fellow cinematographer TONY IMI. He first cut his teeth in the Sixties on Ken Loach’s gritty BBC docu-dramas such as Up The Junction and Cathy Come Home before spreading his wings on film and television productions all over the world like International Velvet, Buster and Scarlett. His latest assignment has seen him on Lighthouse, a new Lottery-funded British thriller shooting at the Three Mills Island studio in East London. Lighthouse also signals the feature directing debut of talented newcomer and film school graduate, SIMON HUNTER, who tells us about this ambitious production which features the work of Oscar-winning special effects wizard Roy
Field.
There is yet more Lottery funding in Pathé
Productions’ Ratcatcher which gives a welcome break to the young German-born cinematographer
ALWIN KÜCHLER, a comparative newcomer in the ranks of this high artform. He’s re-united on the Glasgow-based project with another first time fea- ture director Lynne Ramsay for the first time since their Cannes award-winning short collaboration on Gasman. Pathé is also helping to fund THE DARKEST LIGHT which also marks another directing debut, The Full Monty’s Oscar-nominated screen- writer Simon Beaufoy. His latest is an altogether darker tale set in the depths of North Yorkshire.
Our Studios main feature concentrates on SHEPPERTON which for more than 60 years has been home to a stunning slew of major international movie productions - from Olivier’s Richard III, The Third Man and the multi Oscar-winning musical Oliver! to recent epics The Madness of King George, Lost In Space and Elizabeth. Explains man- aging director DENIS CARRIGAN: “All we’re trying to do is give filmmakers the very best facilities pos- sible.”
We also feature TVI, now London’s oldest facilities house, as well as a short retrospective in the company of recently retired DP, CHRISTOPHER CHALLIS. Facing our Camera is rising British star EMILY WATSON who, following her acclaimed roles in Breaking The Waves and The Boxer, now plays tragic cellist Jacqueline du Pré in the new biopic, Hilar y And Jackie. Talking of new young talent, our prestigious 1998 FUJIFILM SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS had that in abundance as our centre-spread reveals.
JOHN ROBINSON
JACKIE SPADACCINI
BOB QUINN
MICHELLE GREEN
ROGER SAPSFORD