Oliver Stapleton

Bad News Tour

Sandy Johnson

Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall

A documentary crew films heavy metal band Bad News as they have trouble starting their van, pick up a schoolgirl groupie, and meet up with rock journalist Sally at a motorway service station where they argue about the cost of sausage and chips.

Seduction. Betrayal. Murder: The Making of The Grifters

Phillip Escott

Stephen Frears, Oliver Stapleton

A brand new feature-length documentary on the film’s production, including new interviews with director Stephen Frears, director of photography Oliver Stapleton, editor Michael Audsley, executive producer Barbara Defina and co-producer Peggy Rajaki.

Shadow Play

Oliver Stapleton

The story of a theatre group putting on an Athol Fugard play in London: one of the characters is a South Africa political exile. Unknown to him he is being shadowed by BOSS (The South African security police), but his weird and strange photographer friend Peter (Alex Mavro) works out what is going on through his obsession of taking serial photographs and turning them into movies.

Completely Bad News

Sandy Johnson

Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson

A double offering of heavy metal madness from The Comic Strip and Bad News.

Interview with Oliver Stapleton

Oliver Stapleton

Laundrette was the first of seven collaborations between director Stephen Frears and cinematographer Oliver Stapleton. In this engaging interview, Stapleton discusses his experiences on set, including how he approached the film with a mixture of stylization left over from his experience on rock music videos and an attempt to be naturalistic and invisible.