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THE FUJI PHOTO FILM UK MAGAZINE • AUTUMN 2001
EXPOSURE
EXPOSURE
JOHN ROBINSON
MICHELLE GREEN
T his issue’s Cover star is award-winning actor Ralph Fiennes as he appears in controversial Canadian director David Cronenberg’s latest film, SPIDER, and his first movie to be shot in the UK – on
Fuji, by his longtime collaborator, Peter Suschitsky BSC. We report from its London location on what Cronenberg describes as “a personal, earthy and Freudian horror.”
Fiennes also has a telling cameo role in Neil Jordan’s Double Down, the most recently com- pleted work of the great CHRIS MENGES BSC, one of four British cinematographers we profile in our Behind The Camera series. A double Oscar winner, for The Killing Fields and The Mission, Menges is currently re-united with Stephen Frears on the London-based thriller Dirty Pretty Things. They first worked together 30 years ago on the director’s first feature, Gumshoe.
CHRIS SEAGER BSC, behind the BBC’s latest costume drama The Way We Live Now, worked for the Corporation for 20 years before going freelance in the mid-90s. LAWRENCE JONES,
with recent credits like Linda Green and My Beautiful Son, was a Granada man for 25 years before he finally took the plunge. RIKI BUTLAND has never looked back after making the switch from gaffer to DP. He describes his latest, Redemption Road, as an “unusual road movie.”
To Dublin for a set visit on HIGHBINDERS, featuring the remarkable stunt expertise of martial arts star Jackie Chan as he teams up for an international action thriller with comic Lee Evans and Claire Forlani.
Closer to home, in East London, we find writer-director Ryan Lee Driscoll putting the finishing touches to his debut feature, MAKING A KILLING, a dark-tinged thriller about an insur- ance scam. Home from Thailand, DP Mark Duffield tells us about his latest, BUTTERFLY MAN, which has echoes of The Beach.
Set to rival the popular characters from Aardman comes HAMILTON MATTRESS, the TV adventures of an aardvark and a caterpillar from fellow Bristol-based production company Harvest Films. Live animals are the stock in trade of wildlife filmmaker Mike Birkhead whose THE LEOPARD HUNTERS, filmed in Sri Lanka, is a jewel in BBC’s Natural World series.
As Fujifilm UK currently celebrates its 25TH ANNIVERSARY, we blow our own trumpet with a look back at our achievements in those Silver years. And what better time to introduce our latest high-tech innovative product, namely NEW REALA 500D Negative, which for the first time incorporates 4th colour layer technology into a motion picture film stock.
Talking of technology, we also feature the revolutionary recording world of TEAC and its TASCAM subsidiary, the names behind the very successful Digital Multitrack Recording System.
All this plus our regular round-up of cur- rent COMMERCIAL BREAKS, in which director/DP Peter Thwaites gives the lowdown on his ad for P&O CRUISES; a report on KATE WINSLET’s new role as a singer and news of next year’s MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL which promises to be even bigger and better. ■
ERIC MOULD
DIVISIONAL MANAGER FUJIFILM MOTION PICTURE & PROFESSIONAL VIDEO TAPE www.fujifilm.co.uk/motion
JACKIE SPADACCINI
ROGER SAPSFORD