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INTERNATIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHY
hat better way to celebrate this Special 50th Wedition of EXPOSURE than with the glittering news of yet another remarkable Oscar and
BAFTA night triumph for a major movie
originated on Fujifilm Motion Picture Stock. When we launched the publication 15 years ago,
prizes were thin on the ground. That’s all a thing of the past as, in three successive years, Slumdog Millionaire, The Hurt Locker and, now, The King’s Speech, have captured Best Picture Academy Awards and a lot more trophies besides on both sides of the Atlantic - and somewhat ironically, in the USA, at the Kodak Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard.
The first issue of EXPOSURE in Spring 1997 inaugurated our prestigious series Behind the Camera, with a profile of Tony Pierce-Roberts BSC. Now, more than 150 interviews later with a plethora of craftsmen and women, some of whom, sadly, are no longer with us, this Special Awards edition puts the focus on four more very fine cinematographers. One of this year’s Academy Award nominees, New Yorker Matthew Libatique ASC, reveals some of his magic that helped make Black Swan such a visual feast as well as gaining a Best Actress BAFTA and Oscar for star, Natalie Portman, while Danish-born Charlotte Bruus Christensen, an NFTS graduate, reflects on her career to date including, most recently, Hunky Dory.
Then there’s John Pardue who, after learning his craft at Granada, branched out into commercials, then drama with top TV fare and now features such as the provocative Resistance, filmed in Wales and positing the alternate history of a Nazi victory in WWII.
Kiwi-born, but Australia-raised, Denson Baker ACS, has a well-travelled CV with music promos and films, latest of which is a fascinating Anglo-Australian collaboration with director Jim, son of Ken, Loach on the searing true-life drama, Oranges And Sunshine, about forced child migration, co-starring Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving and David Wenham.
More globe-trotting as we hear from Lol Crawley on his offbeat odyssey through Armenia on Here, which won a major jury award at this year’s chilly Berlin International Film Festival noting its remarkable ... “cinematographic qualities.” No less epic-sounding is Undercurrent, which snared no fewer than six awards including Best Picture and Best Cinematography at Iceland’s prestigious annual prize-giving, The Eddas.
G Magni Ágústsson IKS gives us the lowdown about a stressful shoot on the ocean waves.
Internationally, Ernest Gill reports from Berlin on the state of German Cinema today
including three Fujifilm productions. All
this plus reports on some upcoming
UK releases, Attack The Block, Everywhere And Nowhere, Tracker and Blitz, with storylines ranging from alien invasion and urban culture clash to a period colonial manhunt and Jason Statham starring in a London cop thriller - a look behind the scenes of an Anglo Belgian caper The Hot Potato currently in post-production, and the making of some music promos for the chart topping album The Defamation Of Strickland Banks by Brit Award-winning rap artist Plan B. That’s a wrap....!
During my Editorship of EXPOSURE
since its inception, it has been both a
privilege and a joy to report on the varied and creative use of Fujifilm Motion Picture Stock by DPs and associated technicians and craftsmen. Congratulations are indeed due to everyone at Fujifilm UK as it is they who have supplied the film stock for the last three consecutive years of the Academy Award Winning Best Film.
EXPOSURE UK will now be regularly updated as an online publication under the supervision of Fujifilm UK’s Marketing Manager, Jerry Deeney, who can be contacted direct on jdeeney@fuji.co.uk.
QUENTIN FALK Editor MILLIE MORROW International Managing Editor www.fujifilm.co.uk/motion
A W A R D S S P E C I A L50thI S S U E
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Photos from top: August Diehl and Nina Proll getting acquainted in Buddenbrocks; Fujifilm’s Academy Award Winning line-up at the Oscars;
Emily Watson in Oranges And Sunshine