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MOTION PICTURE • CINEMATOGRAPHY • DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
W elsh-born Andrew Davies, 71 this month, is Britain’s most prolific, and
certainly highest-paid, television screenwriter following a 30-year career which has seen him win no fewer than five BAFTA awards from 15 nominations. Two of his latest
classic adaptations are covered in this latest issue of EXPOSURE during its 10th Anniversary year.
FANNY HILL, starring newcomer Rebecca Night in the title role, has scandalised generations since these ‘Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure’ were first published in the mid 18th Century. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this BBC 4 production, lit by James Aspinall, is the first-ever version for TV. The tireless Davies – behind new versions of Middlemarch, Brideshead Revisited and A Room With A View – has also penned a new BBC One adaptation – the third for TV – of Jane Austen’s much-loved SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, directed by John Alexander, collaborating for the first time with Sean Bobbitt BSC.
Joining the ranks of our Behind the Camera profiles are three cinematographers with extremely varied backgrounds and experience. Roger Chapman has a long, and occasionally hazardous, background in documentary, which contrasts vividly with his latest feature assignment, MORRIS: A LIFE WITH BELLS ON, a mockumentary about morris dancing, featuring Sir Derek Jacobi, Greg Wise, Ian Hart and Chaz Oldham, who also wrote the comedy. Kate Stark worked in shorts – including the award-winning Desserts directed by her father Jeff - and music promos before getting her feature break this year on CLUBBED for director Neil Thompson, with whom she’s also earlier made a couple of shorts. Eigil Bryld who, like fellow Danes Marcel Zyskind and David Katznelson, has worked busily of late in the British industry on high-profile projects like Kinky Boots and Becoming Jane, talks about being inspired by Da Vinci for his recent music promo, IMMORTAL - featuring Noah Francis and the
Wu Tang Clan - based on The Last Supper.
THE MAGAZINE • ISSUE 39 • SUMMER 2007
Talking of old masters, Ernest Hemingway’s
THE GARDEN OF EDEN, published posthumously in 1986 has now been turned into a movie, directed by John Irvin and lit by Ashley Rowe BSC. With Spain doubling for France in the tale of a tragic ménage-a- trois, the film co-stars Mena Suvari, Caterina Murino and Jack Huston, from the great Huston acting and directing dynasty. We report from the set at the studios, Ciudad de la Luz, in Alicante. Nearer to home, Ken Loach reflects on his new film about exploited immigrants, IT’S A FREE WORLD, shot by Nigel Willoughby, which will premiere in the UK on Channel Four as well as get a limited cinema release on the recently-established Digital Screen Network.
Now on release, Paul Schrader’s THE WALKER gets a reflection by Chris Seager BSC, while in our Cover Story Ben Davis BSC gives us an insight into STARDUST, expected to be one of the big autumn family fantasy blockbusters. Directed by Matthew Vaughn, it co- stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes, Robert De Niro, Charlie Cox and Ricky Gervais. At the other end of the classification scale is the jolting DEATH PROOF, Quentin Tarantino’s homage to 60s and 70s ‘Grindhouse’ cinema, on which the versatile film- maker also makes his debut as cinematographer.
National Film & Television school graduate David Kerr offers an In Person look at his intriguing career which has spanned scientific training, commercials and the award-winning feature film SINNER, which he shot in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Denzil Armour- Brown, a 12-year veteran of music promos tells us about the watery backcloth for I’D WAIT FOR LIFE, featuring the re-born boy band phenomenon Take That.
All this plus a tribute to the late, great Alex Thomson BSC, brief reports on new productions A MIGHTY HEART, MISTRESSES, THE WHISTLEBLOWERS, BRITZ, TELSTAR and MY BOY JACK, and a round-up of Fujifilm news in Festivals & Events. ■
MILLIE MORROW MANAGING EDITOR www.fujifilm.co.uk/motion
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