BAFTA HERITAGE SCREENING Sunday 11 September 2016 BAFTA 195 Piccadilly RyanÕs Daughter London W1J 9LN Preceded by a Q&A with SIR SYDNEY SAMUELSON cbe and MICHAEL STEVENSON, hosted by MARK SALISBURY.

Ryan’s Daughter (1970) was one yan’s Daughter was nominated in a staggering ten British Academy Film Award categories, including Best Film, of the last great ‘Roadshow’ Director, Leading Actress, Supporting Actor, widescreen releases in the UK. Cinematography and Production Design. RCinematographer Freddie Young (filming almost for the last time This magnificent, rarely screened in sumptuous 70mm Super Panavision) received his third Oscar for the stunning camerawork, and after forty years in film Sir John Mills earnt epic began life as an adaptation the only Oscar of his career for his moving portrayal of a man with severe learning difficulties. of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary by In an original and inspired move Lean urged Bolt to loosely transpose the plot of Madame Bovary onto the storm-swept remoteness of the fictional screenwriter Robert Bolt, Lean’s Kirrary in pre-revolutionary Ireland. Around this specially-constructed village long-term collaborator (Lawrence (built by production designer Stephen Grimes) Lean then weaves a tense love triangle that echoes the political and emotional upheavals of the Great War of Arabia; Dr Zhivago). and Easter Rising, played out against a tempestuous Atlantic coastline. BAFTA HERITAGE SCREENING Sunday 11 September 2016 BAFTA 195 Piccadilly RyanÕs Daughter London W1J 9LN

The film’s eponymous heroine is stunt-doubles, shooting this sequence Chairman of BAFTA and went on a restless, feisty young woman called almost killed some of the actors and crew. to receive the Michael Balcon Award Rosie Ryan, played with innocence and And these images of some of Ireland’s for Outstanding British Contribution élan by Sarah Miles, real life wife of most violent weather, contrasted with the to Cinema in 1985. In 1991 he was Robert Bolt. Rosie recklessly believes her quiet beauty of rich sunsets and sweeping appointed the first British Film frustration with isolated village-life can shots of golden beaches, has guaranteed Commissioner and awarded with be dispelled through (an inappropriate) the Dingle Peninsula a place in tourists’ a BAFTA Fellowship in 1993. marriage to an ageing widower, imaginations the world over. school-teacher Charles Shaughnessy Ryan’s Daughter also surprises in (Robert Mitchum). But when a other ways; famous for playing brooding Michael Stevenson dashing and damaged young war veteran anti-heroes and demonic villains, Michael Stevenson is one of the most Major Randolph Doryan (Christopher Mitchum wrong-footed audiences, well respected and well loved second Jones) arrives to take charge of the local unexpectedly appearing here as the assistant directors in the industry. His British army base, Rosie embarks on mild-mannered, respectable widower, career has spanned over 50 years working a dangerous and clandestine affair that a passive and ineffectual victim this on many of the most successful films inflames intrigue, moral opprobrium and time rather than an angry and cynical in cinema history. Beginning as a nationalist sentiment, in the close-knit protagonist. And Sarah Miles, four times production runner in 1956 with 20th community. This ultimately leads to a BAFTA-nominated during her career, Centaury Fox, it was his move to MGM’s catastrophic denouement. (including for Ryan’s Daughter) played studios at Elstree that first brought him opposite a relatively unknown and into contact with David Lean where troubled actor from the US, Christopher he worked on his next three epic films; Release year: 1970 Jones, who was given one of the Lawrence of Arabia, Dr Zhivago and Runtime: 196 mins central roles. Ryan’s Daughter. Director: David Lean This screening is in digital format Alongside Lean, Michael has worked SCREENWRITER: Robert Bolt due to the immense scarcity of surviving with some of the greatest directors of Producer: Anthony Havelock-Allan 70mm prints. In 2013, as part of a special our time, including Stanley Kubrick ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Roy Stevens widescreen season at the Irish Film (Barry Lyndon, The Shining), Richard Institute in Dublin, the only 70mm print Attenborough (Shadowlands) and Steven It took fifty two weeks to shoot available then was with Swedish subtitles. Spielberg (War Horse). His incredible Ryan’s Daughter; the cast and crew had career has continued throughout the to battle against the most challenging decades and up to the present day, with weather conditions that many had ever Sir Sydney Samuelson cbe commercially and critically acclaimed experienced. Sarah Miles recalled, “Once Born in 1925 Sydney’s first job was as films such as The Spy Who Loved Me, we did half a scene and I remember a rewind boy at his local cinema and Flash Gordon, Highlander, Mission: waiting in my caravan for three solid later a trainee editor with Gaumont Impossible, the first three Harry Potter weeks before there was enough sun to British News. After the war, Sydney films, Children of Men, Clash of the Titans finish the other half.” Indeed, conditions trained in the camera department of the and The Social Network. were so unstable key sequences had to be government’s Colonial Film Unit, rising In 2003 he was awarded BAFTA’s finished on location in South Africa. to documentary cameraman and filming Michael Balcon award for Outstanding Lean had to wait an entire year for around the world. Contribution to British Cinema. a storm sufficiently ferocious to erupt In the mid 1950s he started on the Irish coast to complete the film’s Samuelson’s Film Service, providing most famous sequence; Kirrary villagers camera hire services to the industry. BAFTA Heritage Screenings battling genuinely mountainous waves to The company was to become one of the BAFTA Heritage Screenings are a series haul ashore crates of German weapons leading film and television equipment of quarterly screenings and on-stage destined for Irish rebellion. suppliers in the UK. In the 60s and interviews which celebrate British The film’s tour de force, and in one 70s, he felt privileged to be a camera film and television classics and the sense its true star, is that sea-storm, consultant on the technical side lines of professionals who make them. rightfully regarded as one of the most Lean’s last three films; Doctor Zhivago, incredible scenes in cinema history. Ryan’s Daughter and A Passage to India. With special thanks to the David In the days before CGI and with no In 1973 Sydney became the first Lean Foundation.