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PROFESSIONAL VIDEO • CINEMATOGRAPHY • DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
MOTION PICTURE & PRO-VIDEO
THE MAGAZINE • ISSUE 30 • WINTER 2005
A ward-winning British actor Daniel Craig, now a star of the big and small
screen, returns to television this Easter in a BBC adaptation by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais of Robert Harris’s best-selling thriller ‘faction’, ARCHANGEL, set across 50 years of tur-
bulent Russian history. Our Cover story follows the filming in Moscow and Latvia of this tense tale, directed by Jon Jones and lit by Chris Seager BSC, both previous BAFTA nominees.
Heard about the two Irishmen and a Frenchman? They tell us more fascinating stories in our regular series, Behind the Camera. At 33, Robbie Ryan already has a couple of films under his belt as well as shorts, commercials and music promos. Fellow Dubliner Brendan Maguire, almost twice Ryan’s age, has just made his feature debut with Short Order, co-starring Emma de Caunes, John Hurt and Vanessa Redgrave. Working with long-time collaborator, director Anthony Byrne, probably eased the transition.
As for Eric Gautier AFC, awards have been showered on him over the past 12 months for his startling cinematography on Walter Salles’ The Motorcycle Diaries, an unusual and compelling ‘road movie’ about the youthful Ché Guevera. Gautier, who describes his job as DP “the same as orchestrating a piece of music”, is currently in post- production on Gabrielle, his fourth collaboration with director Patrice Chéreau. Home-grown Tony Imi BSC has been on the road, too, which is why we found him he reflecting on a pair of feature films, Three and Victims, which took him from the sunny Caribbean to a chilly disused steel mill in Luxembourg.
No fewer than four great cinematographers were gathered together for one small demo as Fuji launched its new motion picture colour negative film, ETERNA 500, a Tungsten Balanced Film with dramatically improved image quality. Jack Cardiff BSC, Sue Gibson BSC, Roy Stannett CSC and Phedon Papamichael ASC were, variously,
mustered under the supervision of producer- director Marcus Dillistone for Lights 2, designed to show off the remarkable qualities of Eterna 500, which incorporates new technologies previously unavailable in motion picture colour negative films.
To Chiswick Park in West London where CORINTHIAN TV’s chief executive officer Mike Silverman spells out his philosophy: “It is about customer service first and foremost. It’s a demanding and very fast moving environment, particularly nowadays with the level of competition that our clients operate in. With the marketplace being so competitive they have to be fleet of foot and we have to be very responsive.”
According to CINENOVA’s Director of Operations, Wojtek Rutkowski: “Quite simply, we want a bigger presence and we want to provide great product. There are very few places that are just dedicated to movies all the time. We have about 360 new movies a year. Sky run at half that.” Split between London’s West End and Amsterdam, the Dutch-run 24 hour, two movie channel is clearly on the up and up.
If it’s stars you want, you will find a galaxy’s worth in MAKE BRITAIN PROUD, the official London 2012 Olympic Bid film from New Moon. Producer Caroline Rowland explains the background to a cast list that includes David Beckham, Dame Helen Mirren, Sir Roger Moore, Dame Kelly Holmes, Sir Matthew Pinsent, Joseph Fiennes, Martine McCutcheon and Denise Van Outen. Not bad for a budget of £100,000.
All this plus a report on the making of the quirky American comedy GARDEN STATE, directed by and starring Zach Braff, a Fuji FLASHBACK to Miller’s Crossing, not to mention a round-up of Fuji news and a stream of award nominations in FESTIVALS & EVENTS. ■
ERIC MOULD DIVISIONAL MANAGER FUJIFILM MOTION PICTURE & PROFESSIONAL VIDEO TAPE www.motion.fuji.co.uk
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