Producer Rebecca O'Brien says Jimmy's Hall could be last feature film made in traditional way, 'shot on film, edited on film'
• Ken Loach puts out appeal for rare analogue editing tape
Help can sometimes be found in the most unlikely places. Ken Loach, the most indefatigable of old-school, social-conscience film directors, has had his plea for vital film-making supplies answered by the animation house Pixar, some 5,300 miles away just outside San Francisco.
What's all the more remarkable is that Pixar, the cutting-edge studio, which has revolutionised animation through the use of computers and digital technology, has supplied the British film-maker with hard-to-find, fast-disappearing equipment for traditional film editing, done the old fashioned way with celluloid and adhesive tape.
Loach, 77, is currently working on Jimmy's Hall, an Irish-set drama about a communist who returns to the country of his birth in the 1930s to reopen the dance hall he once ran.
• Ken Loach puts out appeal for rare analogue editing tape
Help can sometimes be found in the most unlikely places. Ken Loach, the most indefatigable of old-school, social-conscience film directors, has had his plea for vital film-making supplies answered by the animation house Pixar, some 5,300 miles away just outside San Francisco.
What's all the more remarkable is that Pixar, the cutting-edge studio, which has revolutionised animation through the use of computers and digital technology, has supplied the British film-maker with hard-to-find, fast-disappearing equipment for traditional film editing, done the old fashioned way with celluloid and adhesive tape.
Loach, 77, is currently working on Jimmy's Hall, an Irish-set drama about a communist who returns to the country of his birth in the 1930s to reopen the dance hall he once ran.
- 10/30/2013
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Director searching for numbering tape to help finish editing his next and possibly last narrative feature, Jimmy’s Hall.
Ken Loach is appealing to editors and post production houses to find a batch of film numbering tape - essential to help finish editing his upcoming feature Jimmy’s Hall.
The British director, best known for films such as The Wind That Shakes the Barley and Kes, has resisted the move to digital and still works on a Steenbeck, cutting physical film stock with editor Jonathan Morris.
But with the widespread move to digital, Loach believes Jimmy’s Hall could be the last feature film to use the flatbed editor and, less than two weeks into the cutting process, supplies are running out.
Speaking from the cutting room at Goldcrest Post London, Loach told ScreenDaily: “We’re making a start and putting the scenes together. But we’re finding that one or two of the support services are fading...
Ken Loach is appealing to editors and post production houses to find a batch of film numbering tape - essential to help finish editing his upcoming feature Jimmy’s Hall.
The British director, best known for films such as The Wind That Shakes the Barley and Kes, has resisted the move to digital and still works on a Steenbeck, cutting physical film stock with editor Jonathan Morris.
But with the widespread move to digital, Loach believes Jimmy’s Hall could be the last feature film to use the flatbed editor and, less than two weeks into the cutting process, supplies are running out.
Speaking from the cutting room at Goldcrest Post London, Loach told ScreenDaily: “We’re making a start and putting the scenes together. But we’re finding that one or two of the support services are fading...
- 10/24/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Big Finish announced today details of the upcoming three-story season of Fifth Doctor stories, featuring Peter Davison as the Doctor, Sarah Sutton as Nyssa, Janet Fielding as Tegan and Mark Strickson as Turlough, the first time this Tardis team had acted together since 1983.
According to executive producer Nicholas Briggs, "The three stories were recorded just after Christmas, and everyone was on brilliant form. It was quite thrilling to hear [the cast] recreating their roles so authentically. These adventures sound just like they've fallen through a time warp!"
He aded: “The mood during the recording was quite rambunctious and everyone had such a brilliant time that I wouldn’t be surprised to see this team reunited again some time in the near future…”
The series will debut in July, and the first story released will be Cobwebs by Jonathan Morris. The story guest-stars Helen Griffin (Mrs. Moore in "Rise of the Cybermen"), Raymond Coulthard...
According to executive producer Nicholas Briggs, "The three stories were recorded just after Christmas, and everyone was on brilliant form. It was quite thrilling to hear [the cast] recreating their roles so authentically. These adventures sound just like they've fallen through a time warp!"
He aded: “The mood during the recording was quite rambunctious and everyone had such a brilliant time that I wouldn’t be surprised to see this team reunited again some time in the near future…”
The series will debut in July, and the first story released will be Cobwebs by Jonathan Morris. The story guest-stars Helen Griffin (Mrs. Moore in "Rise of the Cybermen"), Raymond Coulthard...
- 2/5/2010
- by R Alan Siler
- The Doctor Who News Page
This Saturday sees the continuation of Big Finish's weekly release schedule with the first part of Hothouse by Jonathan Morris. Starring Paul McGann as the Doctor and Sheridan Smith as Lucie Miller, Hothouse guest stars Nigel Planer (The Young Ones, The Comic Strip Presents..., loads more stuff) as rock star turned environmental activist Alex Marlow who has come into the ownership of a very dangerous piece of vegetation and the gorgeous Lysette Anthony as Hazel Bright. Somewhere in the...
- 3/18/2009
- by Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com
- Kasterborous.com
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