Effective Dec. 3, editor James Rose will come aboard Cut+Run, London. Though based in the U.K. he will also be available stateside for projects out of Cut+Run’s shops on both coasts.
Rose is moving over from NWH, a London house he joined in 1995 as an assistant to editor Nicholas Wayman-Harris. Rose then made the transition to full-fledged editor, a capacity in which he’s been serving for the past eight years spanning commercials, music videos and documentaries.
Among his recent credits is the Amy Winehouse clip “Rehab,” adding to a body of video work that encompasses such artists as U2, Coldplay, The Killers, Oasis, Jamiroquai and Bloc Party. Regarded as one of the U.K.’s leading music video editors, Rose has worked regularly with directors Anton Corbijn, Phil Griffin, Huse Montfaradi and Rob Hales, among others. Griffin helmed Winehouse’s “Rehab.”
Rose’s ability to create a compact narrative with music and pictures has gained him much attention in the commercials market, working with such directors as Nick Livesey, Joel Pront, Matt & Tom and Thomas Job. Rose’s editorial range also includes dialogue-driven pieces as best highlighted in three documentaries for the BBC’s Storyville initiative–Life and Death in Soweto, Rivonia: The Trail of Nelson Mandela and Fashion Victim–The Killing of Gianni Versace. Rose also edited the feature film The Third Pint, which was released this year and was directed by Luciano Podcaminsky (whose spotmaking home is Rebolucion, Buenos Aires, with representation in the rest of the world via bicoastal/international @radical.media).
Editor Steve Gandolfi, founder of Cut+Run, said that Rose boosts the edit house’s “standing in the music video market and adds an exciting dimension to our commercials offering.”
Netflix Series “The Leopard” Spots Classic Italian Novel, Remakes It As A Sumptuous Period Drama
"The Leopard," a new Netflix series, takes the classic Italian novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and transforms it into a sumptuous period piece showing the struggles of the aristocracy in 19th-century Sicily, during tumultuous social upheavals as their way of life is crumbling around them.
Tom Shankland, who directs four of the eight episodes, had the courage to attempt his own version of what is one of the most popular films in Italian history. The 1963 movie "The Leopard," directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale, won the Palme d'Or in Cannes.
One Italian critic said that it would be the equivalent of a director in the United States taking "Gone with the Wind" and turning it into a series, but Shankland wasn't the least bit intimidated.
He said that he didn't think of anything other than his own passion for the project, which grew out of his love of the book. His father was a university professor of Italian literature in England, and as a child, he loved the book and traveling to Sicily with his family.
The book tells the story of Don Fabrizio Corbera, the Prince of Salina, a tall, handsome, wealthy aristocrat who owns palaces and land across Sicily.
His comfortable world is shaken with the invasion of Sicily in 1860 by Giuseppe Garibaldi, who was to overthrow the Bourbon king in Naples and bring about the Unification of Italy.
The prince's family leads an opulent life in their magnificent palaces with servants and peasants kowtowing to their every need. They spend their time at opulent banquets and lavish balls with their fellow aristocrats.
Shankland has made the series into a visual feast with tables heaped with food, elaborate gardens and sensuous costumes.... Read More