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PROFESSIONAL VIDEO • CINEMATOGRAPHY • DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
MOTION PICTURE & PRO-VIDEO
THE MAGAZINE • ISSUE 29 • AUTUMN 2004
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n the cut-throat, ratings-obsessed world of television, repeat business is an achievement. To have made eight series is quite remark- able. Of course, when the creator name-in- the-frame is Lynda La Plante it helps, as her tough crime series, TRIAL & RETRIBUTION, returns to ITV1 screens. Co-starring David
Hayman and Victoria Smurfit, as mismatched cops caught up in the world of sleazy sex clubs, it contains the series’ trademark gloss and high-tech, pho- tographed this time round by Daf Hobson BSC.
A comparative newcomer to the TV sequels game, it’s just second time out for ROSEMARY & THYME, an together lighter-hearted ITV1 mystery series, which has already proved a firm favourite thanks to the inspired casting of Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris as gardening pals turned unlikely sleuths. As well as a slew of murders in the Home Counties, the daring duo now get to investigate foul play in France and Italy. Also back on cine- matographic duty is DP Paul Englefield.
Although his youthful looks belie it, David Johnson BSC, the first of our Behind The Camera profiles, has been in and around the industry for 30 years ever since starting as an assistant battery charger at Sammies. His credits include Hilary And Jackie, Resident Evil, Alien Vs Predator and, most recently, On A Clear Day, directed by his partner Gaby Dellal with whom he collaborated on a num- ber of shorts before her first feature, co-starring Peter Mullan and Brenda Blethyn.
Welsh-born Nigel Walters BSC was with the BBC for almost 30 years - learning from the best - before heading out into the freelance world, where he’s worked on acclaimed single dramas and docu- mentaries, as well as some of TV’s best series, like Michael Palin’s Around The World In 80 Days, Queer As Folk and Kavanagh QC. We caught up with him while he was shooting the latest Miss Marple, with Geraldine McEwan in the eponymous role. You’ll find DP Nick Matthews far away from the genteel
world of St Mary Mead as he puts the finishing touches to his first feature, Modern Love, in South Australia. And it’s even more exotic climes for Asia-based Christopher Doyle HKSC, who tells us about his latest assignments, Hero and 2046.
About to hit the cinemas come two very different mainstream feature films which span the age range of filmgoers. Director Danny Boyle and pioneering cameraman Anthony Dod Mantle BSC DFF have swapped zombies (28 Days Later) for feisty kids in the heart-warming, North Country-set family fantasy MILLIONS.
Fans of Ian McEwan’s best-selling novel ENDURING LOVE will need no reminding about this tense psycho- logical thriller, which begins spectacularly with a bal- loon tragedy in Oxfordshire. That scene is spectacu- larly recreated by director Roger Michell and DP Haris Zambarloukos in the film version, co-starring Daniel Craig, Samantha Morton and Rhys Ifans.
Corporately-speaking, it’s re-branding time for the popular Fox Kids television network – Spider-Man, Jackie Chan’s Adventures and all
as it now becomes JETIX. MD Ian Finnegan explains the process. At Soho-based PROTAPE, co-founded by Bob Matthews and Toby Manchip, it’s all about the personal touch: “We try and make sure that our customers are as happy as they can be, that we get the stock to the cus- tomer when they ask for it, and if they need it urgently, we get it to them urgently.”
All this plus COMMERCIAL BREAK, featuring the ad Amurol Bubble Tape lit by Marc Waterloo, an in- depth look at the music promo DRY YOUR EYES, fea- turing The Streets, and an interview with shorts director Jake Barnes. We also round up the golf results and reflect all the latest Fuji news in FESTIVALS & EVENTS. ■
ERIC MOULD DIVISIONAL MANAGER FUJIFILM MOTION PICTURE & PROFESSIONAL VIDEO TAPE www.motion.fuji.co.uk
PAULA DENBY • ROGER SAPSFORD • JOHN ROBINSON • MILLIE MORROW