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ISSUE 48 SUMMER 2010
seasons over a two-month shoot for a typically bittersweet tale set in London and the Midlands which features a number of familiar Leigh faces such as Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen, Imelda Staunton and Lesley Manville. London is also the backdrop, we reveal, for the festival award-garlanded Do Elephants Pray? and a no-holds-barred biopic, The Kid.
To, and out of, Africa for a pair of fascinating and contrasting features with that great continent at their core. Africa United, photographed by Sean Bobbitt BSC, follows the fortunes of
three Rwandan children as they
embark on a transcontinental
journey to reach the opening
ceremony for this year’s World Cup
in South Africa. As its title suggests,
I Am Slave, lit by Robbie Ryan BSC,
is an altogether darker tale of
modern day slavery.
All this plus a report from the
National Film & Television School
where Tim Palmer was conducting a
Masterclass which involved doing
black and white transfers of ETERNA
Vivid 160T film, First Person
accounts by David Katznelson and
Mark Hamilton of their latest films, a
Commercial Break featuring Damien Morisot on his stunt-driven spectacular for the new Audi Spyder, a behind-the-scenes report on a new TV version of Murder On The Orient Express, and the 2010 Fujifilm Shorts Awards. Not to mention a round-up of the latest Fujifilm news and Sneak Previews of some new movies in Festivals & Events.
JERRY DEENEY MANAGING EDITOR
www.fujifilm.co.uk/motion Email: movingimage@fuji.co.uk
t 24, Gemma Arterton has quickly become Aestablished as one of Britain’s most in-demand international film stars, appearing successively
in Quantum Of Solace, St Trinian’s 2 (reprising
her role from the hit original), Clash Of The Titans and Prince Of Persia as well as making her West End stage debut. She now takes the title role in Stephen Frears’ latest film Tamara Drewe, which has echoes of Thomas Hardy’s classic Far From The Madding Crowd. Shot on location in West Dorset, Arterton plays the eponymous head-turning beauty in Moira Buffini’s adaptation of Posy Simmonds’ popular comic strip creation. Our Cover Story reports on the filming, which brought director Frears and cinematographer Ben Davis BSC together for the first time.
More tales from Behind the Camera in the latest of our regular series, which focuses this time round on the prolific work of, respectively, Harvey Harrison BSC BKSTS and Tony Slater-Ling. Harrison, a former President of the BSC, is an industry veteran of more than 40 years who when he’s not directing and/or photographing 2nd Unit on some of the top action movies has been DP on a number of films down the years, most recently Tracker, a period New Zealand ‘Western’ co-starring Ray Winstone and Temuera Morrison. Slater-Ling got his first big break working for a number of years with David Odd BSC before earning his own spurs, as it were, on the first three years of C4’s popular series Shameless. He has just completed filming for Sky1 HD a new four-hour, dark-tinged comedy-drama Mad Dogs, shot on location in Majorca.
Director Mike Leigh and Dick Pope BSC renew their collaboration for the ninth time on Another Year, short-listed for the Palme D’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. One of the main challenges this time round for Pope was recreating the four
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Photos from top: Sean Bean in Age Of Heroes;
Ralph Fiennes directs and stars in Coriolanus; Peter Wight and Lesley Manville in Another Year