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ISSUE 43 AUTUMN 2008
Our production reports span period and genre. It’s back to 1914 for the BBC’s The 39 Steps, the first ever small screen version of John Buchan’s classic chase thriller, with Rupert Penry-Jones as hero Richard Hannay. The pre - Swinging Sixties are lov- ingly evoked in Telstar, the bitter-sweet true story of record producer Joe Meek, known as “the British Phil Spector”, whose strange life ended in murder and suicide. To the Eighties with Clubbed, a rough, tough tale of Midlands clubland, based on the best-selling memoirs of one-time bouncer Geoff Thompson. The Descent - Part 2 begins within hours of the climax to the 2005 blockbuster taking up the story of a young woman who barely escaped with her life after deep caving in The Ap-
palachians, alias Scotland, Surrey
and Ealing Studios. Elstree Studios
was the base for Exam, a contem-
porary tale of corporate stress and
a feature debut for both director,
Stuart Hazeldine and DP Tim
Wooster, from a famous dynasty.
All this plus the professional
opinions of DP Mike Spragg on
Waking The Dead – Series 8, a
fairytale cinematographic debut for
gaffer John Colley on The Continu-
ing And Lamentable Saga Of The
Suicide Brothers, retrospective reports on recent top TV dramas Sharpe’s Peril and The Commander and a glimpse of this year’s Royal Film and CTBF fund-raiser, A Bunch Of Amateurs, as well as a round-up of the latest Fujifilm news including recent award-winners, in Festivals & Events.
MILLIE MORROW MANAGING EDITOR www.fujifilm.co.uk/motion
here’s the distinct flavour of India and all its Tinfinitely spicy variety in this issue. For his
eighth feature, director Danny Boyle travelled to Mumbai for Slumdog Millionaire, the raw and romantic flashback story of a teenage boy
who is just one question away from winning the jackpot on the country’s top quiz show. Never was that famous catchphrase “phone a friend” more excitingly evoked in a film, shot by Anthony Dod Mantle DFF BSC, predicted to be one of the bigger winners in the upcoming awards season. A perhaps gentler but equally colourful continent is also evoked in Incredible India, photographed by
Mik Allen. He describes his odyssey, on behalf of tourism, which included stopovers in such places as Kerala, Amritsar, Delhi and Dharamsala.
As soon as he read David Peace’s bestseller The Damned United, Ben Smithard set his heart on being involved in the film version, starring chameleon actor Michael Sheen as the legendary football manager Brian Clough. In the first of our three Behind the Camera interviews, Smithard, a former electrician and gaffer who shot the BBC’s award- winning Cranford, got his wish and says glowingly of Sheen, “It’s the best performance I’ve seen from a human being in my entire lifetime.”
From, in his own words, a “remote” part of Northern Sweden, Ulf Brantås first came to promi- nence as the regular cameraman of award-winning director and fellow countryman Lukas Moodysson. Brantås has since become a regular in British televi- sion drama with credits like To The Ends Of The Earth and Sweeney Todd. His latest is ITV’s new production of Wuthering Heights, co-starring Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley, as star-crossed Heath- cliff and Cathy. Two of Ed Wild’s recent credits featured in this year’s Times BFI London Film Festival, I Know You Know and Shifty, which went on to snare five British Independent Film Award nominations among the 26 earned altogether by films originated on Fujifilm.
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