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ETXPOSURE EXPOSURE
THE FUJI PHOTO FILM UK MAGAZINE • WINTER FEBRUARY 2002
his issue’s Cover star is pretty his two most recent features, Neil Jordan’s Cote Parminder Nagra who in her feature d’Azur caper DOUBLE DOWN and Stephen Frears’ film debut aims – as the title says - to urban thriller DIRTY PRETTY THINGS.
BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM. Of her soccer- After football crazy females in Bend It Like mad character Jess, Parminder, born in Beckham, we now stray into the strange time-
Leicester and from a Punjabi family, says: “Jess less world of director Pete (The Borrowers)
is actually very close to me. She’s honest, steadfast and a little fighter on the pitch and she follows her heart, which is what I do.” We report from the set of director Gurinder Chadha’s latest film in West London.
Our four profiles for Behind The Camera feature a quartet of cinematographers whose work spans everything from gritty documen- taries and costume drama to Gallic spectacle and the award-winning world of Mike Leigh. DICK POPE BSC, who has just completed Leigh’s latest All Or Nothing has been associated with the filmmaker for more than 10 years including the acclaimed Life Is Sweet, Secrets & Lies and Topsy-Turvy. But that’s not the end of his story. THIERRY ARBOGAST AFC is one of France’s finest perhaps best known for his work with Luc Besson on Leon and The Fifth Element.
A check of his credits like The Crying Game, Wish You Were Here and Emma rightly suggests that IAN WILSON BSC is determined not to be typecast. DAVID HIGGS has yet to move into fea- tures but has already made an award-nominat- ed mark in television drama with Nature Boy and The Russian Bride. His latest, Night Flight, has also earned much praise. In our last issue we profiled Oscar-winning Chris Menges BSC. This time round, there are picture specials on
Hewitt who has conjured up a wind-assisted 10-year-old kid for the flatulent fable, THUNDERPANTS. This unlikely hero of the skies is played by newcomer Bruce Cook and his more experienced co-stars include Simon Callow, Stephen Fry and carrot-topped Rupert Grint from Harry Potter & The Philosopher’s Stone.
To the heart of London’s Soho for a report On LIP SYNC POST LTD, one of the UK’s biggest post production houses. Then we head a few miles north to visit ACTION UNDERWATER STUDIOS at Waltham Cross where for the past six years almost every major UK-based production – from Bond to Shackleton via Band Of Brothers - has used its unique tank facility with the detachable roof.
Time for a close-up on the impact of Fujifilm’s new REALA 500D film stock featured in a short demo film, The Glow, directed by Marcus Dillistone. An open day in January at The Moving Picture Company was attended by the industry’s great and good anxious to check out the product.
All this plus our regular feature COMMERCIAL BREAK, the BSC CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARDS and David Cairns’ CRY FOR BOBO, the winner at TAPS of the Completed Short Film Award spon- sored by Fujifilm. ■
ERIC MOULD
DIVISIONAL MANAGER FUJIFILM MOTION PICTURE & PROFESSIONAL VIDEO TAPE
www.fujifilm.co.uk/motion
JOHN ROBINSON
MICHELLE GREEN
JACKIE SPADACCINI
ROGER SAPSFORD
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