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ISSUE 49 WINTER 2010
Talking of well-travelled, two British cinematographers, Rob Hardy BSC and Oliver Stapleton BSC, bring us to date on their latest globe-trotting assignments. Hardy was in Kenya for The First Grader, another audience favourite at Toronto, before heading off to the wilds of Albania where he has been filming an as yet untitled drama about blood feuds for American director Joshua Marston. Stapleton followed Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark, a chiller he shot in Australia, with Ellen Perry’s Will, about a Liverpool FC-mad
youngster trying to get to the 2005 Champions League Final in Istanbul.
In their own words, a trio of busy DPs, Zillah Bowes, Paul Robinson and Tim Fleming discuss the various challenges of their latest films, respectively, the ‘dramedy’ The Be All And End All; a Barcelona-set short Fanatic; and The Last Furlong, a romantic teen drama, shot in his native Ireland.
All this plus Ed Wild on the new
Take That music promo The Flood,
graduation film secrets from two
NFTS cinematography students
Emma Dalesman and Stil Williams,
a report on the documentary Follow Me Down, and a trip behind the scenes of Clint Eastwood’s latest, Hereafter. Not to mention a roundup of the latest Fujifilm news and Sneak Previews of some new movies and TV in Festivals & Events.
JERRY DEENEY MANAGING EDITOR
www.fujifilm.co.uk/motion Email: movingimage@fuji.co.uk
hat is it about right royal tales, which Wseems to bring out the best in British
filmmaking? Latest addition to a burgeoning canon of stylish regal biopics is our Cover Story, The King’s Speech,
already winner of the Public Vote at the Toronto Film Festival and now touted as the smart money for a clutch of BAFTA and Oscar nominations after the turn of the year. Photographed by Danny Cohen BSC, it tells the true, Thirties-set story of how Prince Bertie, later King George VI, brilliantly portrayed by Colin Firth, set about conquering
his debilitating stammer to lead a nation into World War Two.
The King’s Speech, an Anglo-Australian co-production co-starring Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush, was selected for a Gala Screening at the 54th BFI London Film Festival, itself the subject this year of an elegant teaser trailer featuring nine short scenes shot in the capital featuring some classic movie dialogue and lit by Bruno Delbonnel AFC ASC. Triple Oscar-nominee Delbonnel talks about his career and films in our Behind the Camera series, which also features an interview with Hoyte van Hoytema FSF NSC, one of Europe’s newer generation of internationally acclaimed cinematographers. A Rotterdam-native, van Hoytema shot to prominence with Let The Right One In, the Swedish vampire pic, which is still accumulating awards all over the world. Since then, he’s made his US debut on The Fighter, with Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale, and is currently in the UK shooting a big screen version of John Le Carre’s Cold War classic Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy which reunites him with Let The Right One In director Tomas Alfredson.
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Photos from top: Oliver Litondo as Maruge and Naomie Harris as Jane Obinchu in The First Grader; Natalie Portman in Black Swan; Antarctica snowboarding in Follow Me Down