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THE FUJI PHOTO FILM UK MAGAZINE • SPRING 1999
EXPOSURE
EXPOSURE
This Spring issue’s Cover Story is devot- ed to one of the British film industry’s most distinguished and versatile prac- titioners, KENNETH BRANAGH and his lat- est assignment. Following his remark- able sequence of Shakespearean adap- tations, such as Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet, Branagh is now pro- ducer and director and co-star of LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST. The twist this time is that he has adapted the 16th Century romantic comedy into a Thirties- style musical, featuring the timeless classics of Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and George Gershwin.
Behind The Camera are three British cine- matographers, each with their own professional tale to tell. Oscar-winning DAVID WATKIN has been making films around the world for 35 years and his credits range from The Knack and Help! in the Swinging Sixties to Jane Eyre and Tea With Mussolini in the Nineties, via classics like The Charge Of The Light Brigade, Catch 22, The Devils, Robin And Marian and Moonstruck.
MARY FARBROTHER, a graduate of the National Film & Television School has just made her feature debut working alongside The Full Monty writer turned director Simon Beaufoy on The Darkest Light. Mary, who says she was inspired by Sue Gibson to become a DP, found the Yorkshire weather conditions distinctly inhospitable.
Another first-timer is Fuji Scholarship award winner JAKE POLONSKY who followed up his feature DP debut on a modern-dress version of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband with a stint as camera operator in India on Merchant-Ivory’s Cotton Mar y. Both Mary Farbrother and Polonsky, who is
American Film Institute and Royal College Of Art trained, are indeed burgeoning talent to watch. Veteran cinematographer GUY GREEN has, of course, already done it all and, at 86, reflects on a golden era when he lit films for David Lean includ- ing the Oscar-winning classic,Great Expectations.
Elizabeth and Paul Matthews run PEAKVIEWING, their own West-country based production power- house that makes and then sells TV movies into the US cable and syndication market - a success story par excellence if ever there was one.
The future of EALING STUDIOS is presently in the melting pot, but while decisions are still to be taken, the famous facility in W5, which rightfully boasts comedy classics Kind Hear t s And C o r o n e t s , T h e L av e n d e r H i l l M o b a n d T h e Ladykillers amongst many, now plays host to new productions like Notting Hill, Mansfield Park and the latest Rik Mayall/Ade Edmonson comic chaos, Guest House Paradiso. Forty years on, RITA TUSHINGHAM is still Facing The Camera but now she tells how she hopes to soon add director to a CV which already includes four decades of acting accomplishment.
Also featured is an interview with Fujifilm’s own ROGER SAPSFORD, who has a great industry CV of his own; a production report from THE TRENCH, written and directed by best-selling novelist William Boyd and a glimpse of Claude Lelouch’s new French puzzler CHANCE OR COINCIDENCE. Plus a test report on Fujifilm’s stunning new SUPER F-250 and F-250D motion picture film stocks. ■
ERIC MOULD
DIVISIONAL MANAGER FUJIFILM MOTION PICTURE & PROFESSIONAL VIDEO TAPE
JOHN ROBINSON
JACKIE SPADACCINI
BOB QUINN
MICHELLE GREEN
ROGER SAPSFORD