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THE FUJI PHOTO FILM UK MAGAZINE • WINTER FEBRUARY 2000
EOXPOSURE EXPOSURE
ur first Cover Story of the 21st Century graduated to Hollywood for the tricky task of features the Oscar-winning work of film-mak- remaking Hitchcock’s Psycho.
JOHN ROBINSON
MICHELLE GREEN
ing duo ISMAIL MERCHANT and JAMES IVORY. Their latest is The Golden Bowl, a typically lavish adaptation of the Henry James classic novel, co-starring Uma Thurman, Nick Nolte, Anjelica Huston and Jeremy Northam.
Bristol’s AARDMAN ANIMATION, no stranger to Academy Awards for its classic films like The Wrong Trousers, teams up with Hollywood in a five-picture deal with Dreamworks SKG, run by Messrs. Spielberg, Katzenberg and Geffen.
Their first full-length feature animation, devised and co-directed by Aardman’s Peter Lord and Nick Park, is Chicken Run, featuring the voices of Miranda Richardson, Julia Sawalha and Mel Gibson.
Our regular feature, Behind the Camera, takes us from Hong Kong to South Africa and from Basingstoke to Hollywood. ALAN ALMOND BSC arrived at lighting quite late but has made up for lost time with a series of British features. Latest is Kevin And Perry Go Large, the big-screen spin off of Harry Enfield’s memorable TV series.
Although he’s been based in South Wales for nearly 20 years, PETER THORNTON has long been one of the industry’s most well-travelled and prolific cameramen. He tells us of his impending move East. Mention the name of Aussie CHRISTOPHER DOYLE and film-buffs will excitedly quote his remarkable kinetic style in acclaimed work for Chinese directors like Wong Kar-Wei and Chen Kaige. Lately he
In the beginning, as they say, is the word and it’s thanks to the scheme TELEVISION ARTS PERFORMANCE SHOWCASE (TAPS) that a whole new generation of British writing talent has been nurtured. Tireless project director JILL JAMES spells out the past, present and rather worrying future for her seven-year-old baby.
The past also meets the future in the lat- est £30 million plans being hatched for one of the most venerable of British film industry names, GAINSBOROUGH, in the London Borough of Hackney. Hitchcock started there; Brad Pitt and Vinnie Jones are the latest visitors.
The ISLE OF MAN FILM COMMISSION, thanks to its energetic captain, Hilary Dugdale, has fostered many new film and TV productions over the last four years. It’s doubled for everything from an Irish village in Waking Ned to, most recently, the home of the English upper-crust for Relative Values, starring Julie Andrews. But regrettably, as yet no-one has spotted a kangaroo. So read instead about cameraman-director OWEN NEWMAN’s trip Down Under for the documentary KANGAROOS, a new wildlife series for television about Australia’s most famous indigenous species.
All this plus a look at the important new UK post-production facilities link-up between TVI, TVP and the American giant 4MC, and we are on location with THE TRUTH GAME, NEW YEAR’S DAY and HOUSE! Who needs the Dome? ■
ERIC MOULD
DIVISIONAL MANAGER FUJIFILM MOTION PICTURE & PROFESSIONAL VIDEO TAPE www.fujifilm.co.uk
JACKIE SPADACCINI
ROGER SAPSFORD