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#1: From interview [for the BSC]
JOHN DE BORMAN BSC
Born: 1954, Paris, France.
Education: Chelsea School of Art [now: College of Art and Design] [Sculpture].
Career: Ph commercials dir by Rankin, Simon Cole, Graham Lineham, Colin Gregg, a.o. Ph music videos with a: Madonna ['Like a Virgin', 1984], Prince ['Sign 'o' the Times', 1987], Little Richard, Billy Idol, Bon Jovi, Cindy Lauper, a.o.
Ph & ed test footage for Cooke's Anamorphic/i prime lenses in London in January 2014.
Directed music videos with a: Rod Stewart [1986], Roger Taylor, a.o.
Member and president [2010-14] of the BSC.
Appeared in the doc 'The Commitment' [2002; dir/ph: Dean Arnett; 30m] on the making of 'The Engagement'.
Awards: As doph: Evening Standard British Film Award [1999] for 'Hideous Kinky'; Independent Spirit Award nom [2001] for 'Hamlet'; BAFTA TV Award 'Photography & Lighting' nom [2006] for 'Tsunami: The Aftermath'; Sundance FF 'Cinematography Award' [2009] for 'An Education'.
As dir: New York FF 'Gold Award Best Short' [198?] for 'Outing'.
Website: John de Borman
| FILMS | |
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1980 |
Eddy Grant - Live at the Notting Hill Carnival [Joe Massot] c; mus doc/30m; cph: David Reed |
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1987 |
Think [Tom Huish] ?; training film/4m; for Ministry of Defence |
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1988 |
Unmasked Part 25/Hand of Death, Part 25: Jackson's Back/Friday the 14th [Anders Palm] c |
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1988 |
Medium Rare [Paul M. Madden] c; addph: Stephen Ashley Blake; film was shelved in November 1989; in 2010, the film was released on the internet (blip.tv) as a 12-part series |
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1989 |
Murder on Line One/Helpline/Deadline [Anders Palm] c; + co-exec prod |
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1990 |
Red Hot + Blue [seg #11 (3m) 'I Love Paris' dir by Roger Pomphrey; a: Les Négresses Vertes] b&w-c/V; mus comp/111m; other ph: Tom Sigel, Ed Lachman, Declan Quinn, a.o.; this film (18 music videos + art breaks) accompanied the comp album (20 tracks) from the Red Hot Organization (an AIDS Benefit project); also an ABC-tv special |
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1990 |
Murder Blues/Dead Certain [Anders Palm] c; 2uc: Barry Stone |
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1993 |
Death Machine [Stephen Norrington] 2.35 Research/c; + Los Angeles shoot ph; 2uc: Roger Bonnici; matte plate ph: Peter Talbot |
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1994 |
The Passion of Darkly Noon/Darkly Noon [Philip Ridley] s35/c |
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1995 |
Small Faces [Gillies MacKinnon] c; 2uc: Kriv Stenders; originally made as a tvm |
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1995 |
Trojan Eddie [Gillies MacKinnon] c |
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1996 |
The Full Monty [Peter Cattaneo] c; 2uc: Peter Sinclair |
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1996 |
Photographing Fairies/Apparition [Nick Willing] c |
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1997 |
The Mighty [Peter Chelsom] c; addph: David M. Dunlap; aph (+ 2uc): Michael Kelem; title ph: Thane Berti |
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1997 |
Hideous Kinky/Marrakech Express [Gillies MacKinnon] s35/c |
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1998 |
Gregory's Two Girls [Bill Forsyth] c |
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1998 |
Hamlet [Michael Almereyda] v+s16-35bu/b&w-c; addph: Jim Denault & John Herron; 2u City/Sky shots: Jem Cohen |
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1999 |
New Year's Day [Suri Krishnamma] scope/c |
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1999 |
Saving Grace [Nigel Cole] s35/c; 2uc: Sue Gibson |
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1999 |
There's Only One Jimmy Grimble [John Hay] c; addph: Peter Sinclair |
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2000 |
Serendipity [Peter Chelsom] c; time-lapse ph: Wayne Goldwyn & Ken Stone |
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2001 |
The Guru [Daisy von Scherler Mayer] c |
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2001 |
The Glow [Marcus Dillistone] c; cph: Thierry Arbogast & Tony Pierce-Roberts; demo film for Fuji Reala 500D film stock |
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2001 |
The Engagement [John Duigan] DigiBeta/c; released in 2011 |
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2002 |
Pure [Gillies MacKinnon] s16-35bu/c |
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2002 |
Touching the Void [Kevin Macdonald] s16+35mm+HD (Sony F900)-to-35mm/c; doc/106m; co-addph; ph: Mike Eley |
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2002 |
Ella Enchanted [Tommy O'Haver] c; 2uc: Sean Corcoran; model unit ph: Nigel Stone |
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2003 |
Shall We Dance? [Peter Chelsom (replaced Jon Turteltaub)] c; remake of 'Shall We Dansu?' (1995, Masayuki Suo; ph: Naoki Kayano) |
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2003 |
Summer of '76 [Philip Ridley] project looking for finance; status unknown |
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2004 |
A Lot Like Love [Nigel Cole] c |
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2004 |
Tara Road [Gillies MacKinnon] c |
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2005 |
Fade to Black [Oliver Parker] s35/c |
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2007 |
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day [Bharat Nalluri] s35/c |
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2007 |
7 Lives [Paul Wilkins] 16mm/c; 7 chapters; chapter #1 was filmed in August (10 days) and was used to raise money to complete the film; in April 2010 they were close to finalizing completion funding |
[Right] with Dustin Hoffman - "Last Chance Harvey"
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2007 |
Last Chance Harvey [Joel Hopkins] s35/c; addph: Rodrigo Gutierrez |
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2008 |
An Education [Lone Scherfig] s35/c |
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2009 |
Made in Dagenham/We Want Sex [Nigel Cole] s35/c |
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2011 |
Quartet [Dustin Hoffman] s35 (+ D-Cinema)/c |
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2012 |
Half of a Yellow Sun [Biyi Bandele] c |
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2013 |
A Dream of Flying [Georgina Chapman] HD (Canon EOS)/c; short/16m; vfx ph: Jeff Lynch; for Canon's 'Project Imaginat10n' |
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2013 |
If I Stay [R.J. Cutler] HD (ARRI ALEXA Plus 4:3/Hawk Scope + Canon EOS C500)-to-35mm scope (+ D-Cinema)/c; aph: John Trapman |
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2017 |
Slaughterhouse Rulez [Crispian Mills] c |
| TELEVISION | |
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1983 |
The Comic Strip Presents [ep #13 (30m) 'Slags' dir by Sandy Johnson] 35-part series, 1982-93 (+ specials/features); 2nd season, 1983-84; co-2uc (as John de Boorman); ph: Oliver Stapleton |
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1986 |
Outing [John de Borman] tvm/5m; + scrpl; ep Channel 4 series 'Four Minutes' |
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1989 |
Beyond the Groove [Roger Pomphrey] 6-part music series, 1990; addph: Joseph Yacoe; for Channel 4 |
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1994 |
Crazy for a Kiss [Chris Bould] tvm; ep BBC-tv series 'Screen Two' (1995) |
[Hat] with dir Bharat Nalluri [left] - "Tsunami: The Aftermath"
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2006 |
Tsunami: The Aftermath [Bharat Nalluri] tvm |
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2008 |
Cupid [pilot dir by Bharat Nalluri] 7-part series, 2009; other ph (+ cph pilot): Dejan Georgevich |
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2014 |
Coalition [Alex Holmes] tvm/HD; for Channel 4 |
| MISCELLANEOUS | |
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1979 |
Radio On [Christopher Petit] co-c.asst; ph: Martin Schäfer |
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1980 |
The Mouse and the Woman [Karl Francis] c.asst; ph: Nick Gifford |
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1982 |
Helping People Now [Christian Marnham; comm doc] c.asst; ph: Nick Gifford |
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1982 |
Hero [Barney Platts-Mills] co-c.asst; ph: Adam Barker-Mill |
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1984 |
What Is Brazil? [Rob Hedden; 'making-of' doc] co-c.asst (as John de Boorman); ph: Luke Cardiff, Pascoe McFarlane, Richard Branczik, John Simmons & Paul Turtle |
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1986 |
Van Halen Live Without a Net [Daniel Kleinman; concert film] co-c.op; ph: Julio Macat |
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1986 |
Tina Turner - Break Every Rule/Tina! [David Mallet; tv-concert film] co-camera (c.op); ph: Nic Knowland & John Metcalfe |
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1987 |
Cyndi Lauper in Paris [Andy Morahan; concert film] co-c.op (as John De Boorman); ph: Daniel Pearl |
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1989 |
The Jeff Healey Band - See the Light - Live from London [Crescenzo Notarile; concert film] co-c.op; no doph credited; filmed 14 April |
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1996 |
AC/DC - No Bull [David Mallet; concert film/122m] co-c.op; ph: Peter Sinclair; filmed 10 July (Madrid) |
