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THE EAGLE HAS LANDED
COMING SOON
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he Eagle, first film version of Rosemary TSutcliff’s 1954 children’s bestseller
The Eagle Of The Ninth, about a quest to discover the secret of the lost Ninth Legion, recreated 2nd Century Roman
Britain in Hungary and the wilds of the Scottish Highlands.
Co-starring Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, Donald Sutherland, Mark Strong and Tahar (A Prophet) Rahim, the film re-united director Kevin Macdonald with his Last King Of Scotland cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle BSC DFF (Slumdog Millionaire).
They mapped out a shooting style that would have key sequences filmed by two or three cameras at once, and that would emphasise handheld efforts over Steadicam work. During the combat sequences, for example, “the audience will feel that they’re right there in the thick of it,” says producer Duncan Kenworthy.
Dod Mantle comments, “The second thing that will attract me to do a movie like this or Slumdog is if it calls for a highly
visual approach. But the first thing I look for is always a story that touches me. The Eagle is character-driven, about men seeing their worlds and the world as a whole.
“We all decided early on that we couldn’t have carefully composed set-ups with the multiple cameras, given the unpredictable weather we’d be facing on location. I also shot against the light, muting it in-camera.”
Macdonald and Dod Mantle also were keen to shoot the Scottish scenes in the fall. Macdonald explains, “Scotland is actually far more impressive in the fall than in the summer, when the landscape is overly lush and green. With the leaves coming off the trees and everything going brown, we’d be able to capture the texture of the moss and the stones.”
The Eagle, opening in the UK on March 25, was partly originated on 35mm Fujicolor REALA 500D 8592
Mia Wasikowska, the 21-year-old star of Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland, plays the title role of Jane Eyre in the latest screen version, more than
20 to date for film and TV, of Charlotte Bronte’s 19th Century moody masterpiece. The Canberra-born actress, who also
recently appeared opposite Annette Bening and Julianne Moore, in The Kids Are All Right, heads a cast that also includes Michael Fassbender (as Mr Rochester), Jamie Bell, Judi Dench, Imogen Poots, Holliday Grainger and Sally Hawklins.
Adapted by Moira Buffini (Tamara Drewe), the film marks another collabora- tion for American director Cary Fukunaga and Brazilian cinematographer Adriano Goldman who made the 2009 Sundance Festival winner Sin Nombre.
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ilmed in Serbia and Montenegro, FCoriolanus, adapted from Shake-
speare’s play by John Logan (Gladiator), marks the directing debut of actor Ralph Fiennes who also stars
in the title role.
Set in “a place calling itself Rome”
this is the vivid, contemporary re-telling of a brutal political thriller in which Fiennes is joined by Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Cox and Jessica Chastain
To shoot his film which he’s coveted ever since first playing Coriolanus on stage 10 years ago, Fiennes called up Barry Ackroyd BSC after they’d first met on The Hurt Locker in which he had a cameo.
What was his ‘brief’ for the film? Said Ackroyd: “Directors often say to me, ‘do
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hot under conditions of considerable
After a pair of tough contemporary tales, Red Road and Fish Tank, Arnold has once again linked up with her regular cinematographer Robbie Ryan BSC for the
This time round they’ve swapped raw Mexican locations for the fleshpots of heritage UK with shooting taking place at such lavish country piles in Derbyshire as Chatsworth, Haddon Hall, North Lees Hall and The Fox House
Jane Eyre, opening this Autumn, was originated on 35mm Fujicolor ETERNA 400T 8583
SUFFERTHECHILDREN
tolen, a new single film for BBC One, Swill signal a ‘premiere’ for the network
as the first ever to be aired in its original widescreen 2:35 format.
Damian Lewis plays Detective Inspector Anthony Carter of the Human
Trafficking Unit in a fast-paced thriller, written by Stephen Butchard (Five Daughters, House Of Saddam), following the plight of enslaved children in this country.
It marks the return to the small screen of director Justin Chadwick for the first time since he shared in a BAFTA Award for the BBC drama serial of Dickens’ Bleak House.
Since then he has helmed a pair of features, The Other Boleyn Girl and, more re- cently, The First Grader, photographed by Rob Hardy BSC. He and Hardy have collaborated again on Stolen.
As for Hardy, after The First Grader in Kenya, he travelled to Albania to shoot The Forgiveness Of Blood for American director Joshua Marston who, together with co-writer Andamion Murataj, won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
your thing’, whatever that ‘thing’ is, But Hurt Locker itself wasn’t as reference as such; it was to use the signature work I do plus the big, composed frames Ralph had in mind, to tie the style to the subject.”
References? “With the battle scenes, I’d had experience shooting those. We did, however, look at Peter Brook’s 1971 King Lear, shot [by Henning Kristiansen] in black-and-white with some very beautiful compositions and framings. That was a very valuable influence.
Coriolanus, originated on 35mm Fujicolor ETERNA 500T 8573 and ETERNA 250D 8563 will open in cinemas later this year
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classic tragi-romantic drama set more than a century and a half ago.
Cast in the star-crossed roles of Cathy and Heathcliff are newcomers Kaya Scodelario and James Howson while the rest of the cast features more familiar names such as Oliver Milburn, Nichola Burley and Steve Evets.
Wuthering Heights, to be released later this year, was partly originated on 35mm Fujicolor
Stolen, to be aired later this year, was originated on 35mm Fujicolor ETERNA 400T 8583; The Forgiveness Of Blood, for theatrical release, was shot on 16mm ETERNA Vivid 1760T 89643 and ETERNA Vivid 500T 8647 Photos: above then clockwise: On the set of The Forgiveness Of Blood in Albania - camera assistant Jennie Paddon, Rob Hardy and Joshua Marston; Damian Lewis in Stolen courtesy Open Door Pictures/BBC; Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell, and Anthony Dod Mantle on The Eagle; Mia Wasikowska as Jane Eyre; Ralph Fiennes, focus puller Oliver Driscoll and Barry Ackroyd on Coriolanus; newcomers Kaya Scodelario and James Howson co-starring in Wuthering Heights
secrecy in North Yorkshire, the latest
film version of Emily Bronte’s classic
Wuthering Heights, marks a quite con- siderable departure for award-winning filmmaker Andrea Arnold.
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