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IN MEMORIAM - FREDDIE YOUNG OBE BSC
KINO FESTIVAL OF AMERICAN UNDERGROUND CINEMA SHAKESPEARE SONGBOOK
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Born more than a making his debut as a
quarter of a century before the advent of talking pictures, triple Oscar-winning
British cinematographer Freddie Young OBE BSC has died aged 96.
First credited as assistant cameraman on Rob Roy in 1922, Young really came into his own during the 1930s with films like Victoria The Great, Goodbye Mr Chips and Nurse Edith Cavell.
But it was his long collaboration with David Lean, by which time Young was pushing 60, that eventually led to a hat-trick of deserved Oscars with
Celebrating the best of both New and Classic American Underground Cinema - Kino’s first festival of ’99 is set to rock the city of Manchester from 15-21 February. Following the success of last year’s pilot American Underground event which took place as part of the International Short Film Festival, Kino is pleased to announce the 1st Kino Festival Of American Underground Cinema. In addition to cutting-edge underground trends,
the festival featured a number of
low budget shorts from New York’s independent filmmakers and show- cased new work from students of both New York and Columbia University. ■ For further information
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Lawrence Of Arabia (1962), Dr Zhivago (1965) and Ryan’s Daughter (1970).
Named the second Fellow of BAFTA, after Alfred Hitchcock, Young proved a tireless craftsman eventually
director aged an astonishing eighty-three on Arthur’s Hallowed Ground (1985), starring Jimmy Jewel as a protective cricket groundsman.
In an interview with EXPOSURE just a year ago, Young was asked about the most important ingredient in the film-making process: “Good cinematography helps but if the script isn’t right, you’re lost. If you have a
good script the task is then to try and recreate the atmosphere from the page on to the screen.
Then, and only then, you’ve really
got something.” ■
Kenneth Branagh and Alex Thomson BSC, who last col- laborated on the award-win- ning four-hour Hamlet, are teaming up again for another slice of the Bard this time to be shot on Fujifilm at Shepperton Studios.
Love’s Labour’s Lost, co-starring Alicia Silverstone, Nathan Lane, Alessandro Nivola, Natasha McElhone, Matthew Lillard, Adrian Lester and Branagh himself, will be filmed in the style of a Thirties’ Hollywood musical using standards by composers like Cole Porter and Irving Berlin.
This is the first production in what’s planned as an ongoing series between the newly formed The Shakespeare Film Company, headed by Branagh and producer David Barron, and Intermedia, run by Guy East and Nigel Sinclair. Also in the pipeline are Macbeth and As You Like It. ■
The Practice was named Best TV Drama and Ally McBeal, Best TV Comedy in the latest Golden Globe Awards from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Both American teleseries are shot on Fujifilm. The Practice also scooped awards for Best Actor (Dylan McDermott) and Best Supporting Actress (Camryn Manheim). ■
Above: Calista Flockhart (seated) and the cast of Ally McBeal; Right: the cast of The Practice.
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