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PROFESSIONAL VIDEO • CINEMATOGRAPHY • DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
THE MAGAZINE • ISSUE 24 • SPRING 2003
O ur Cover Story features one of Britain’s most popular entertainers, STEPHEN FRY. Writer, actor, raconteur, wit, award show presenter and now first-time feature film director with Bright Young Things, his
own adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s tragi-comic Thirties’ novel, Vile Bodies, Fry has assembled an incredible Anglo-American cast including Dan Aykroyd, Stockard Channing, Julia McKenzie, Sir John Mills, Peter O’Toole, Emily Mortimer and Jim Broadbent. We go on the set at Pinewood Studios to meet Fry in his new day job.
There’s also an international flavour about the trio of cinematographers in our Behind The Camera series. Veteran PIERRE LHOMME AFC has won everything there is to win in his native France for his work across more than 40 years as well as awards here from BAFTA and the BSC for films like Cyrano de Bergerac and Camille Claudel. He has also been long associated with Merchant-Ivory Productions and recently completed Le Divorce in Paris, his fifth collaboration with MIP.
It’s a long way from PAT O’SHEA’S native New Zealand to the countryside of West Yorkshire where, for the last seven years, he has been adding visual slices of rural bliss to the BBC’s ever-popular Last Of The Summer Wine, the world’s longest-running sitcom now entering its 31st year. From theatre lighting to his latest feature, The Poet, starring Dougray Scott and filmed all over Europe, ROGER BONNICI reveals a fierce passion for his craft.
Two distinguished post-production houses are in the spotlight. blue, run by managing director Dave Cadle, was recently named Britain’s Best in the 2003 Broadcast Awards. With bases in London and Copenhagen, DIGITAL FILM LAB, whose CEO is Kris Kolodzjejski, is regarded as one of Europe’s leading facilities for data feature film post production.
We head North for some location reports. To Merseyside for first-time director Lee
Donaldson’s irreverent comedy THE VIRGIN OF LIVERPOOL, starring Ricky Tomlinson, Johnny Vegas and Imelda Staunton. To Glasgow for the lowdown on THE BOOK GROUP, whose recent BAFTA-nominated second series on C4, has confirmed its reputation as one of the unlikeliest hit sitcoms of television today. Writer-director Annie Griffin explains her creation’s amazing appeal. Finally, to a remote corner of The Shetlands where filmmaker (and stunt co-ordinator) Stuart St Paul has braved the elements for his latest, DEVIL’S GATE, a taut thriller with Laura Fraser, Callum Blue, Luke Aikman and Tom Bell.
Founded in 1956, the LONDON FILM SCHOOL, which boasts an international array of DPs like Ian Wilson, Tak Fujimoto, Ivan Strasburg, Roger Pratt, Gale Tattersall, Ueli Steiger, Terry Bedford, Curtis Clark, Steve Dubin, Geoffrey Simpson, David Scott and Bahram Manochri among its alumni, remains world- renowned for its professional training. Director
Ben Gibson reveals the secret of its success.
All this plus the making of some new music
videos – Tom Jones, Richard X v Liberty X and The Streets, picture specials on a pair of new film releases shot on Fuji – Nigel Dick’s SEEING DOUBLE featuring pop band S Club, and Terence Ryan’s PUCKOON – based on Spike Milligan’s
surreal classic and a report on HWEROW HWEG (BITTER SWEET) – the first Cornish speaking fea- ture film, written, directed and edited by Penzance-based Antal Kovacs. And finally, our congratulations to the winners of three BAFTA TV Awards that went to productions originated on Fuji stock - which is understandable - and we’ve given our magazine the once over - I do hope it’s to everyone’s total satisfaction! ■
ERIC MOULD, DIVISIONAL MANAGER, FUJIFILM MOTION PICTURE & PROFESSIONAL VIDEO TAPE www.fujifilm.co.uk/motion
CHRISTINA PEDERSEN • ROGER SAPSFORD • JOHN ROBINSON • MILLIE MORROW