As British film mourns a great of cinematography, the final feature he photographed is readied for cinema screens - and it's one that takes him, and us, home again
This is such a beautiful tribute to both Dick Pope and Mike Leigh - thank you! I didn't know about them before this (!!), but now I'm planning on watching all these films. When the focus is on 'real' - as in 'human life as most of us know it' - and on 'feelings' - as in 'all the good, bad, crazy, angry, loving and vulnerable emotions' that make up our days...I am there!! I like and need good, escapist fare to chill out many days, but work like what you describe here enriches my life.
Thank you so much for this tour de force of a eulogy. There have been many tributes. but none I have read which captured the quiet self-effacing brilliance of Dick’s photography and his approach to his long honed craft.
This is such a beautiful tribute to both Dick Pope and Mike Leigh - thank you! I didn't know about them before this (!!), but now I'm planning on watching all these films. When the focus is on 'real' - as in 'human life as most of us know it' - and on 'feelings' - as in 'all the good, bad, crazy, angry, loving and vulnerable emotions' that make up our days...I am there!! I like and need good, escapist fare to chill out many days, but work like what you describe here enriches my life.
Thank you so much for this tour de force of a eulogy. There have been many tributes. but none I have read which captured the quiet self-effacing brilliance of Dick’s photography and his approach to his long honed craft.
Very moving.
Oh, thank you! Found it incredibly moving to write, truthfully x