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WINNING WAYS FOR LYNNE
TALES FROM THE UNDERGROUND
BSC AWARD NOMINEES
Familiar as the host of Sky’s MovieTalk programme, Richard Jobson has added another string to his bow recently, serv- ing as producer on Tube Tales which airs on Sky Premier this month after being showcased at the London Film Festival.
A series of nine short films set in and around London’s underground system, Jobson’s vision was for a different director to tell each story. Three of the films - My Father, The Liar, A Bird In The Hand and Mr Cool - were shot on Fuji by Sue Gibson BSC.
But Tube Tales was significant not only for marking the irrepressible Jobson’s producing bow. It also featured his first - and perhaps his
last - movie acting role.
“Bob Hoskins was directing My
Father, The Liar,” says Jobson, “and he decided he needed a newspaper
T wo films shot on Fuji motion picture stock were winners in
the second annual British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) presented at London’s
Cafe Royal in October.
Lynne Ramsey won The Douglas
Hickox Award (for a British director on their debut feature) for Ratcatcher, photographed by Alwin Kuchler,
who was also nominated as Best Newcomer; and Best Achievement in
vendor for one scene. Ray Winstone plays a weekend dad who comes to collect his kid, and when he gets to the station he sneaks him through the railings, before buying his own ticket.
“On the way he passes me, who he buys a paper from as well as a copy of the Dandy. The vendor realises what’s going on and is supposed to say: ‘nice one, mate!’. So Ray walks up and gets his papers and I shout: ‘alright Big Man? There you go!’. Bob yells ‘cut!’, asks what the hell I think I’m doing and tells me to do it quieter.
“So Ray walks up, takes his papers, and I go: ‘luvverly, nice one mate!’. ‘CUT!’. Bob told me off for ruin- ing his film, he was screaming
abuse at me, and of course I
Production went to Justin Kerrigan’s Human Traffic, shot by David Bennett.
Other Fuji-stocked films nominated in the various categories were The Trench, Lighthouse and The Darkest Light. Ramsay has previously garnered The Guardian New Directors Prize at The Edinburgh International Film Festival in August. ■
couldn’t shout anything back
because he was right. They had to cut my line in the end. When Ray walked up for the third time I could feel it rising up within me, but I kept my mouth shut. And then I looked to the right, when I was supposed to look to the left.
“I could just hear Bob muttering quietly to himself, but they let it go,” laughs Jobson. “The irony was I’d been there every night, going on about finishing on time because we had
no money. And here, it was my uselessness taking us into the realms of overtime.” ■ ANWAR BRETT
Above left: Producer Richard Jobson (right) with director Bob Hoskins and, centre and right, star of My Father, The Liar Ray Winstone.
Above: William Eadie in Lynne Ramsey’s award winning Ratcatcher, photographed by Alwin Kuchler (inset above); right: former Fujifilm Scholarship runner-up Justin Kerrigan’s debut feature Human Traffic. From top right: Keri Arnold and Kavita Sungha in The Darkest Light, Simon Hunter’s Lighthouse and William Boyd’s The Trench.
Janusz Kaminski and Peter Biziou, both previous winners of BSC Best Cinematography Awards, are among the five nominees for the 1998-99 trophy to be announced at Operators Night on December 3.
The full list is: Remi Adefarasin BSC (Elizabeth), Janusz Kaminski ASC (Saving Private Ryan), Richard Greatrex BSC (Shakespeare In Love), Peter Biziou BSC (The Truman Show) and John Toll ASC (The Thin Red Line).
FESTIVALS & EVENTS
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