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ISSUE 44 SPRING 2009
Cover Story. For the small screen, Peace’s Red Rid- ing quartet became the basis of a remarkable Chan- nel 4 drama trilogy shown earlier this year.
Keeping the Northern theme, Manchester is the base for Ken Loach’s latest film, Looking For Eric, which also sees the return – on the screen at least - of one of the city’s most-loved heroes, the French footballer-turned-actor Eric Cantona. According to Barry Ackroyd BSC, re-united with Loach after a three year break, “King Eric’s” rendition of the old Scottish proverb, “when you sow thistles, you’ll reap thorns”, will be worth the price of admission.
There’s plenty of period reflections in reports from three film sets. Chéri, Stephen Frears’ new film, evokes the flavour of 1906 Paris
demi-monde in a lush evocation of
Colette’s famous novel, co-starring
Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates and
Rupert Friend. Moving forward
three decades, Good traces a differ-
ent kind of decadence in Thirties’
Berlin as the Nazis consolidated
their grip. Then to the late Eighties
and an English seaside town for a
gentler portrait of youth and eccen-
tricity in Is Anybody There?, with
Michael Caine and Bill Milner.
All this plus a report on Tech-
nicolor’s latest relocation; Magni Ágústsson on Free Agents and generously illustrated glimpses behind the scenes of new and recent film and television pro- ductions like Margaret, Endgame, Occupation and Shifty as well as two titles, Five Minutes Of Heaven and Push – Based On A Novel By Sapphire, both of which were big winners at Sundance earlier this year. Not to mention a round-up of the latest Fujifilm news in Festivals & Events.
MILLIE MORROW MANAGING EDITOR www.fujifilm.co.uk/motion
hen, in last autumn’s EXPOSURE, we Wpassed on the prediction that Slumdog Mil-
lionaire was likely to be “one of the bigger winners in the upcoming awards season”, who could have imagined that this would
be an almost wild understatement. Danny Boyle’s film went on to snare no fewer than 15 Academy Awards – eight Oscars and seven BAFTAs – includ- ing, for Anthony Dod Mantle DFF BSC, the first transatlantic double for a British cinematographer in nearly a quarter of a century, since Chris Menges BSC in 1985 for The Killing Fields. We congratulate him as well as DPs Sean Bobbitt BSC and Dick Pope BSC behind two of Fujifilm’s other big award win- ners, Hunger and Happy-Go-Lucky. It was certainly a monumental year to remember.
Those aforementioned Directors of Photogra- phy are, of course, long established and well re- spected around the world. The inaugural Fujifilm Shorts Competition offered a golden opportunity for new cinematographic talent to emerge. We reveal the first two winners for whom a panel of distin- guished judges, including BSC President Sue Gibson, would offer glowing testimonials. Staying Behind the Camera, our regular series offers two contrasting in- terviews. Tony Coldwell first cut his teeth at Granada before deciding he’d take time out to study cinema at university, since then he’s been a busy freelancer on TV dramas - ranging from period ver- sions of Casualty and a new David Jason project Albert’s Memorial – to documentary. Tom Townend has just completed his first feature, Samantha Mor- ton’s directing debut The Unloved, a new diversion from an impressive CV, which includes commercials, music promos and a BAFTA-winning short.
You won’t necessarily know the name David Peace, but his source material is currently inspiring a rash of productions. It was the Yorkshire-born, now Tokyo-resident, writer’s award-winning epony- mous novel on which The Damned United, starring Michael Sheen as Brian Clough, is based and is our
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