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ISSUE 47 SPRING 2010
re-unites with Dick Pope BSC on a spirited West London tale of the unexpected, It’s A Wonderful Afterlife. Wild Target, with Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt, is very much a capital comedy, but it’s laughs of a more provocative kind writer David Baddiel is seeking in cross-cultural The Infidel, starring popular stand-up comedian Omid Djalali.
As ever, our focus covers the globe with reports from New Zealand on the period action adventure Tracker, Kenya, where The First Grader tells the story of an eightysomething ex Mau Mau fighter going back to school, and Ireland for Neil Jordan’s latest, Ondine. We also stop off in Kabul for an inspiring documentary about co-educational skateboarding in Afghanistan, and
our Behind the Camera profile is
veteran cinematographer Vernon
Layton BSC who is currently filming
a new feature, Day Of The Flowers
in exotic Cuba.
All this plus a glittering
Awards resumé, Commercial Break
featuring Dan Bronks on his teaser
film for Ghost Recon and Lol
Crawley on lighting the BAFTA-
nominated live-action short Jade,
as well as reports from three new
major TV productions: A Passionate Woman, Royal Wedding and The Prisoner, a modern-day re-imagining of the Sixties cult classic series. Not to mention a round-up of the latest Fujifilm news and Sneak Previews of some new movies in Festivals & Events.
JERRY DEENEY MARKETING MANAGER www.fujifilm.co.uk/motion
welve months after Slumdog Millionaire took Tthe awards season by storm, The Hurt Locker,
also originated on Fujifilm by a distinguished British cinematographer, has been this year’s unlikely movie prize package, earning Best
Picture and Best Director at both the Oscars and the BAFTAs. For Barry Ackroyd BSC, awards either side of the Atlantic, including the BAFTA for Cinematography for his amazing work on Kathryn Bigelow’s intimate Iraq War epic, have been the icing on the cake of an extraordinary year which has seen him behind the camera on no fewer than four films – The Hurt Locker, Ken Loach’s Looking For Eric, Green Zone, directed by Paul Greengrass, and, imminently, The Special Relationship, third in the ‘Tony Blair trilogy’ by writer Peter Morgan.
In this issue we go behind the scenes of Ackroyd’s Green Zone, another Iraq tale set soon after the invasion, but, insists director Greengrass, more of a thriller than a conventional war story. Moving off into the realms of fantasy, if the title Clash Of The Titans seems familiar then that’s because it’s a megadollar, CGI-packed re-imagining, 3D and all, of the old Eighties’ stop-motion Greek spectacular. Australian cinematographer Peter Menzies Jr ACS contrasts filming in Spain and Wales with a more controlled UK studio environment. There’s also much magical about the comedy sequel Nanny McPhee And The Big Bang, which sees the return of Emma Thompson as the eponymous time- traveller this time sorting out an English country family against the backcloth of World War Two.
Our other set reports on new films reveal a wealth of British talent, both new and established. First-time feature director Tom Harper hooks up with Robbie Ryan BSC for East Anglia-set
The Scouting Book For Boys while Gurinder Chadha
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Photos from top: Sam Worthington in Clash Of The Titans; Matt Damon and Jason Isaacs in Green Zone; Emma Thompson in Nanny McPhee and The Big Bang