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EXPOSURE
THE FUJI PHOTO FILM UK MAGAZINE • SUMMER 2001
EXPOSURE
Our cover Story features a distinctly chilly-looking Kenneth Branagh as intrepid explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton whose second major expedition to the South Pole has been recreated in a major new £10 million two-part drama for C4. Written and directed by Charles Sturridge, the man behind the multi BAFTA Award-winning Longitude, SHACKLETON follows the remarkable story of a man who fought to save his 28-man crew after their ship the Endurance had sunk beneath the ice.
Our quartet of Behind The Camera pro- files span the English Channel. Morocco-born ROBERT ALAZRAKI AFC, no stranger to these shores after lighting This Year’s Love and Born Romantic for Scots writer-director David Kane, was once a graduate of the Royal College of Art before making a reputation in his adopted France. His much-praised work especially for Yves Robert includes that period favourite La Gloire de Mon Pere followed by its sequel Le Chateau de Ma Mere. Also a favourite in France but very much a Brit is Ken Loach’s favourite cameraman BARRY ACKROYD BSC who’s now lit no fewer than nine of the director’s films, from Riff Raff to his latest, Navigators. There’s also life beyond Loach as Ackroyd talks about the soon-to-be-released Dust, directed by Milcho Manchevski and set between the Wild West and the Balkans.
ANDY COLLINS’ most regular feature collab- oration has been with director Mark Herman on Brassed Off, Little Voice and Purely Belter. But his latest, Thunderpants, renews an old partnership with Peter Hewitt, which started back in student days.
MARK HAMILTON is a comparative newcom- er who had just completed a notable double first: the feature, Capital Punishment, as a DP, and Monday 10am, as a fully-fledged director. He is also part of the BCA Films team captur- ing Royal events like the honours’ investitures.
We have reports from film sets far and wide. To Trinidad, where Ismail Merchant directed THE MYSTIC MASSEUR, based on VS Naipaul’s first novel and stars familiar faces like Jimi Mistry, Om Puri, James Fox and busy comedy man Sanjeev Bhaskar as well as up- and-coming New York stage actor Aasif Mandvi. Less exotic, altogether harder and much closer to home is THE MEAN MACHINE, a soccer-themed reworking of the 1974 Hollywood hit starring Burt Reynolds but now with Vinnie Jones as the tough con. Finally up north for REINVENTING EDDIE, which brings together again director Jim Doyle and DP Damian Bromley who 10 years ago shared a stage at the Fuji Scholarship Awards. This black comedy-drama casts John Lynch, Geraldine Somerville and John Thomson.
Around the country and next stop is Cardiff where veteran producer David Ball and his team have turned the production and ser- vices company CF1 (postcode for Cardiff 1) into a non-stop hive of activity with films like Alone, Anazapta and the BAFTA Cymru nomi- nated The Testimony of Taliesen Jones.
All this plus Owen Newman on his latest African wildlife filming in SAVANNAH, a CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2001 roundup, and our regular COMMERCIAL BREAK with DP Ivan Bird giving the lowdown on the new Mini. ■
ERIC MOULD
DIVISIONAL MANAGER FUJIFILM MOTION PICTURE & PROFESSIONAL VIDEO TAPE www.fujifilm.co.uk
JOHN ROBINSON
MICHELLE GREEN
JACKIE SPADACCINI
ROGER SAPSFORD