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PROFESSIONAL VIDEO • CINEMATOGRAPHY • DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
THE MAGAZINE • ISSUE 26 • AUTUMN 2003
E ighty-five years after his debut as a child actor and well over half a centu-
ry on from the Hollywood Oscar awarded for his colour cinematography on Black Narcissus, JACK CARDIFF OBE BSC is still tangling with film. We caught up with the great man in North London
on the set of The Tell-Tale Heart, a short film ver- sion of the classic Edgar Allan Poe story.
It’s good to find Cardiff at 89 supervising light again and we also salute two other cinematogra- phers in our regular Behind The Camera series. RICHARD GREATREX BSC, whose distinguished credits on both the big and small screen include Shakespeare In Love, Mrs Brown, Warriors and his double award-winner The Woman In White, has been recreating Detroit, Michigan at Ealing Studios for Mike Binder’s The Upside Of Anger co-starring Kevin Costner and Joan Allen.
After more than 15 years as one of television’s pre-eminent videotape cameramen, MARTIN HAWKINS, veteran of hit shows from Challenge Anneka and Birds Of A Feather to Casualty, is final- ly breaking his duck on film with Channel Four’s new spoof horror comedy series, Garth Marenghi, which began life as a fringe theatre show.
And we also focus on another pair of direc- tors of photography. Barry Ackroyd BSC discusses his work on the BBC’s recently aired EROICA as well as AE FOND KISS, his tenth and latest collabo- ration with Ken Loach. Dominic Clemence reveals the challenges behind the making of AMNESIA, a new two-part ITV psychological thriller starring a suitably textured, John Hannah.
We hear from LIP SYNC POST who have just invested another £2 million in their digital interme- diate process, whilst over at the VTR GROUP it’s also still onward and upward as they boast every- thing from “creation to post production to restora- tion, archiving, distribution and beyond.”
Location reports take us from the Chilterns to the lawless corners of Eastern Europe. On a huge estate off the M40 in Oxfordshire, Roger Michell (Notting Hill) has been directing a £6 million ver- sion of Ian McEwan’s bestselling novel, ENDURING LOVE, with Daniel Craig, Samantha Morton and Rhys Ifans. First time feature director Emily Young filmed in Croatia, Bosnia and South London for KISS OF LIFE, starring Ingeborga Dapkunaite and Peter Mullan, which was an entry at Cannes earlier this year.
Closer to home is SPIKED! - director Suzanne Jones’ drug-rape awareness film on which she worked with DP Alessandra Scherillo. The daily chat show, LOOSE LIPS, co-hosted by Melinda Messenger and Richard Arnold, has been one of satellite and digital channel Living TV’s top programmes and we learn how they got it taped from Monday to Friday.
All this plus our regular COMMERCIAL BREAK featuring the WH Smith Christmas campaign, a report on Mike Fraser’s new UK SHOWCASE 2004, promoting the British film service industry sector to the Americans and a round-up of some awards, releases and other big and small screen news. ■
ERIC MOULD DIVISIONAL MANAGER FUJIFILM MOTION PICTURE & PROFESSIONAL VIDEO TAPE www.motion.fuji.co.uk
PAULA DENBY • ROGER SAPSFORD • JOHN ROBINSON • MILLIE MORROW