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ISSUE 45 SUMMER 2009
first-time with writer-director Neil Jordan on the romantic fantasy Ondine, starring Colin Farrell, much of which was shot at sea. David Higgs BSC, who divides his time between film and television, teamed up with first-time feature writer-director Gerard Johnson on the blackly comic, low budget, Tony, filmed in London and subsequently invited to this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival. From the current surge in British-based production, look out in due course for a couple of intriguing new biopics. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, shot by Chris Ross for director Mat Whitecross, tells the turbulent tale of the late, great Ian Dury, while The Kid, re-teaming Telstar’s DP Peter Wignall and helmer Nick Moran recreates the rough,
tough early life of abused South London youngster-turned- bestselling author, Kevin Lewis.
We also take a retrospective look at debutant director Samantha Morton’s acclaimed Channel 4 film, The Unloved, likely to be a big winner at awards season next year, and behind the scenes of BBC Scotland’s hospital drama One Night In Emergency.
All this plus sneak previews of
Nanny McPhee And The Big Bang
and The Descent: Part 2, as well as reports on the filming of Sam Mendes’s latest film Away We Go, on which he collaborated for the first time with veteran American DP Ellen Kuras ASC, the latest music promo work of Norwegian cinematographer Erik Wilson, and The Summer House, the short directing debut of London Film Academy joint principal Daisy Gili. Not to mention a round-up of the latest Fujifilm news in Festivals & Events.
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ince making her directing debut a little over a Sdecade ago, Kent-born Andrea Arnold, 48,
has, with just four shorts and two features, accumulated more awards than most filmmakers would expect to snare in several
lifetimes including an Oscar and three BAFTAs. Clearly key to her critical success has been a very fruitful collaboration with cinematographer Robbie Ryan BSC, most recently on her Cannes award- winning second full-length film, Fish Tank, which opens in the UK in September. In a fascinating interview about this provocative tale of a troubled teenager (played by newcomer Katie Jarvis, who picked up her own acting award at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival), Ryan offers a revealing insight into his working relationship with a director who demands naturalism.
Ryan, who elsewhere in this issue adds an interesting technical note about the filming of Tom Harper’s debut feature, The Scouting Book For Boys, is one of the busiest cameraman around having also just completed Patagonia, a road movie set in Wales and Argentina for director Marc Evans. Staying Behind the Camera, we meet two more talented DPs for our long-running series of career profiles. Hailing originally from Argentina, Natasha Braier, who lit this year’s Golden Bear winning Peruvian film The Milk Of Sorrow, has been on the UK beat recently shooting a cross-cultural comedy, The Infidel, scripted by David Baddiel and starring popular comedian Omid Djalili and former West Wing actor Richard Schiff. Trevor Forrest is just as peripatetic and his CV as cosmopolitan, featuring as it does work spanning India to Cuba. Like Braier, he’s also been involved lately in some domestic comedy stylings, courtesy of actor-turned-director Ben Miller, making his feature debut with Huge.
A pair of even more experienced cinematographers give us their first-hand accounts of working on new projects. Chris Doyle HKSC says he re-discovered Irish roots working for the
Photo from top: Katie Jarvis in Fish Tank; Andy Serkis as Ian Dury in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll; Carmen Ejogo and Maya Rudolph in Away We Go
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