He had been diagnosed with a brain tumour only four months previously. Deakin died, aged 63, in Mellis, Suffolk.
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Notebooks from the Roger Deakin Archive at the University of East Angliaĭeakin married Jenny Hind in 1973 with whom he had a son, Rufus, before the marriage was dissolved in 1982. A colony of swallows lived in the main chimney and for several years chickens and ducks shared his kitchen. The house was without central heating but housed an Aga and wide open fireplaces.
The land included several shepherds huts and Deakin went on to build a cabin for his son Rufus. He dredged the moat, where he swam daily, planted woodland and bought more of the surrounding fields, where he grew hay and wild flowers. In 1968, he bought Walnut Tree Farm, a semi-ruined Elizabethan moated, wood-beamed farmhouse on the edge of Mellis Common in Suffolk, near Diss, which he rebuilt and developed over many years and where he lived until his death. Following this, he taught French and English at Diss Grammar School for three years. He was responsible for the National Coal Board slogan "Come home to a real fire". ĭeakin first worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director for Colman Prentis and Varley, while living in Bayswater, London.
Educated at The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, an independent school, based at the time in Hampstead in north west London, followed by Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, Deakin read English, under the auspices of writer Kingsley Amis. His father was a railway clerk, from Walsall in the Midlands, who died when Deakin was 17. Jesse James has shots in it that have nothing to do with the plot, but you can get away with it, and that’s what I love about film”.įollow Far Out Magazine across our social channels, on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.Deakin was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, and was an only child.
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“I love that movie so much because it really captured the lyricism of the book,” Deakins said of the film that stars Brad Pitt as the leader of a gang who becomes idolised by a young plucky Robert Ford, played by Casey Affleck.įurther clarifying his adoration for the film, the cinematographer adds: “I think films these days have become too literal and too dialogue, plot-driven. The final film on his list of three favourites goes to the undervalued 2007 western, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, directed by Andrew Dominik. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007).The Man Who Wasn’t There (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, 2001).Roger Deakins’ favourite movies that he’s shot: It was the hardest film to do that, and they really succeeded”. Giving a huge amount of admiration to the directorial duo, he adds: “The way the did it, and how it’s structured with a variety of mood. “I think of all the films I’ve worked on, that film, to me, everything fits like a little complex jigsaw puzzle,” Deakins stated, praising the movie that follows a barber who blackmails his wife’s boss for money. Coming in at number two on his list is the 2001 Coen brothers’ movie The Man Who Wasn’t There starring Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Scarlett Johansson and James Gandolfini.
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