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MOTION PICTURE • CINEMATOGRAPHY • DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
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T here is a distinct touch of the blarney about this issue with no fewer than
three of our articles relating to today’s film and television making in Ireland whose booming economy has currently helped characterise the country as the “Celtic Tiger”. Boasting an on-off rela-
tionship with the Emerald Isle, which goes back to his teenage years, Simon Kossoff BSC is one of a number of cinematographers who have recently been to work “across the water”. Following earlier collaborations on the Trial & Retribution mini series and is Irish Film & Television Academy award-winning Sinners, he has linked up again with director Aisling Walsh to make a contemporary Dublin TV drama, Flesh And Blood, co-starring Nathalie Press, Olivia Williams and David O’Hara.
We remain in Ireland for STRENGTH AND HONOUR, a no-punches-pulled, bare-knuckle face-off between two of cinema’s most celebrated hard men, Michael Madsen and Vinnie Jones, pho- tographed by Alan Almond BSC and directed by Cork-born filmmaker Mark Mahon. And it’s Behind the Camera to visit local hero Peter Robertson, who follows films like his own IFTA award-winning Song For A Raggy Boy and Inside I’m Dancing with Lenny Abramson’s tragi-comic Garage, starring Pat Shortt and Anne-Marie Duff.
The focus is also turned on another pair of cinematographers. Stuart Harris, who started out as a clapper boy in the Sixties, now combines lighting, such as a new pop promo for dance artiste Cascada, with teaching duties at the National Film & Television School. Following fea- tures such as Shoreditch and Charlie, Zoran Veljkovic had just completed principal photogra- phy in London and Morocco on writer-director Peter (Johnny English, Sliding Doors) Howitt’s lat- est, Dangerous Parking, in which Howitt himself co-stars with Sean Pertwee, Rachael Stirling, Saffron Burrows and Tom Conti.
As promised in the last issue, we go behind the scenes with director Chris (Babe) Noonan and Andrew Dunn BSC on MISS POTTER, the new biopic
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of childrens’ favourite, Beatrix Potter, with a stun- ning cast including Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor and Emily Watson. The poignant romantic drama of Miss Potter contrasts vividly with the violent, super- natural world, which engulfs the eponymous young hero of THE DEATHS OF IAN. This production from the legendary Oscar and BAFTA award-winning Stan Winston Studio, best known for films like Terminator, Predator and Aliens, was filmed in London – and like Miss Potter – the Isle Of Man.
The Isle of Man also played host to the recent- ly released BIG NOTHING, lit by Richard Greatrex BSC. On this occasion it helped double for Oregon, USA. For THE UPSIDE OF ANGER, co-starring Joan Allen and Kevin Costner, Greatrex had to re-create Detroit, Michigan in Surrey, North London and Ealing Studios. No such stand-ins as Birmingham played itself in the newly-completed comedy, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO PETE BLAGGIT?, the feature lighting debut of Charlie Stanfield. To the real-life Madrid and the legendary Bernabeu Stadium for our Cover Story report on the making of GOAL! 2: LIVING THE DREAM, the second instalment in the fic- tional football drama trilogy, with Kuno Becker, Stephen Dillane and Anna Friel, featuring David Beckham as Himself.
Proving that short can be very sweet, writer- director Mal Woolford and DP Darran Bragg report on a pair of back-to-back collaborations, FLUFFY and REDBLACK while Steve Annis gives us the lowdown on a trio of music promos: Tunng’s Jenny Again, Devendra Banhart & Cibelle’s London, London and Malcolm Middleton’s A Brighter Beat.
All this plus a profile of producer Francesco Juilland featuring his latest film VICTIMS, a picture exclusive from the megadollar HIS DARK MATERIALS: THE GOLDEN COMPASS, screenings’ news of Kenneth Branagh’s THE MAGIC FLUTE, a pair of deserved win- ners at this year’s BSC Operators’ Night and a round-up of Fujifilm news in Festivals & Events. ■
MILLIE MORROW MANAGING EDITOR www.fujifilm.co.uk/motion
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