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Gary Oldman On new movie Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes + Scottish Fashion Awards nominees announced WIN! Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes movie merchandise!

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CONTENTS enTerTainmenT 06 WIN! Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes prizes.

08 An exclusive interview with Gary Oldman.

fashion 14 Nominees for the 2014 Scottish Fashion Awards

food & drink 28 Cinciano wines at Celino’s Deli.

money 30 Financial advice with Tom Munro.

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Editor’s Note This month I’m delighted to feature an exclusive Core interview wih gary oldman, who in my opinion he is one of the finest actors this country has ever produced. In a five page feature he discusses his role in the new Planet of the apes movie which looks to have upped the ante in terms of CGI effects. We have of course a tie-in competition with some great prizes up for grabs.

In fashion we have all the nominees for the fortchcoming scottish Fashion awards 2014, and whilst on the subject of awards our money expert tom Munro has been shortlisted among eight other financial advisory firms for the prestigious UK Investment adviser of the Year awards, which will be held at a glittering ceremony in London on September 24th. It is an incredible feat considering that there are over 22,000 advisers practicing in the UK who are eligible to enter.

And finally, it is great to see that our digital version of the magazine is really taking off with 1165 views of last month’s issue!

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Ape An Exclusive interview with Gary Oldman who discusses new movie Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes.

orn in New Cross, England but now living in California, Gary Oldman is one of the most prolific and impressive actors working in Hollywood today. A grounding in theatre during the ’70s primed him for breakout roles in ’80s British films sid and nancy (in which he played punk-music icon Sid Vicious) and Prick Up Your Ears (in which he played writer Joe Orton), and the acclaim he received for both these performances was widespread and resounding.

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Oldman made his first American film appearance supporting Sean Penn in 1990’s state of grace, following up with an astonishing performance as Lee Harvey Oswald in Oliver Stone’s JFK a year later.

The ’90s established Oldman as Hollywood’s go-to guy for crafting indelible villains, most notably as unhinged cop Stansfield in Luc Besson’s 1994 hitman

thriller Léon: The Professional. But there has always been an impressive variety to his work, even before he decided to move away from antagonistic parts — he exhibits a much in-demand chameleonic talent that has seen him embracing different accents and voice registers (Russian in air Force one, Texan in the Fifth Element, German in Immortal Beloved) as well as vastly varying appearances. He was barely recognizable in some scenes of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, in political drama the Contender, as dreadlocked pimp Drexl in true Romance and especially in Ridley Scott’s Hannibal, in which he played the hideously disfigured Mason Verger. More recently he proved utterly compelling as a man much older than his own age, British spy George Smiley in tinker tailor soldier spy, and he even embraced performance capture during its earlier years alongside Jim Carrey in Robert Zemeckis’ a Christ-

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mas Carol. Matt Reeves is just the latest in a long line of directors who have recruited Gary Oldman to bring their complex characters to vivid life, casting him in the role of belligerent human leader Dreyfus. On the face of it, it seems Reeves has lured Oldman back into an out-and-out villain role, but as Oldman would tell anyone, it’s not as simple as that. Oldman does not see Dreyfus as a bad guy, by any stretch of the imagination — even his own vast one. Quite the opposite: “he’s a hero,” Oldman insists…

What are your memories of the original Planet of The apes movie?

I was nine [when it was released]. I thought it was amazing. You know, that was part of the appeal [of doing Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes]. Culturally and subconsciously, what the franchise is, it’s my youth and something I grew up with. I remember these behind-the-scenes photos circulated and it was like Roddy McDowall sitting in a chair with a huge great big long cigarette holder. And they used to eat in the mirror because they couldn’t touch the make-up. This was before VHS and making-ofs and all that kind of thing, and you saw these pictures circulate and I used to love that. So it was such a nice history to become part of. That first one is still terrific.

What else drew you to being involved in this latest Planet of The apes story?

Before I had read a complete script I spoke with Matt [Reeves, director] and he sort of talked you through it, you know? What separates directors, and I’ve worked with all sorts of directors, some famous and some not-so-famous, but there’s always a point of view. It’s sort of creative and collaborative but ultimately a director with a point of view is laser-beam focused on and he knows what movie he’s making, he

knows what he wants. I always thought Matt was a talent, ever since he appeared on the scene, and then when I spoke to him he had such a clear vision of what he wanted to achieve. He’s so into the real fabric of the people and the emotions. It was as if he was sort of talking about a drama and not an FX movie — obviously it’s both and so I love that. all of the Planet of The apes films have strong themes, political messages. What do you feel this one is saying politically?

I mean, not to forget that the book [Pierre Boulle’s novel, on which the first film is based] is on a list of the Top 100 novels ever written. You’re already working from up there with HG Wells and Orwell and socially, politically it’s in that neighbourhood. But Dawn has an interesting theme because you see these gorillas these apes living in this Utopia, this paradise. And then we find out there are the humans — they discover each other. They each believe that the others have been wiped out.

So can they co-exist? Can they live together? And it’s that old adage of that thing of we fear: others. That we have our own community. You know, can we all drink a Coca-Cola and teach the world to sing? No. I don’t think that’s ever gonna happen. And you’ve got now the possibility of real extinction of the human race. These apes are enviable in a sort of way because they don’t need electricity in the same way that we do and without that we’re done.

This isn’t a good versus evil story. it’s more about clashing agendas, isn’t it?

Yeah, you sort of have these mirror images. Jason Clarke [as the human Malcolm] is almost counterpart to Caesar [Andy Serkis]. And my counterpart is Koba [Toby Kebbell]. And we both are coming from the same hurt place. Jason’s character, he’s more open. And my character,

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like Toby’s character, is coming from this very injured place of loss. So you’ve got, without marching in with guns in that very classic way, these two communities that are just separately trying to hold on to their own existence. your character dreyfus seems very much a man of action who actively blames the apes for their predicament. he’s in combat gear, wears a black shirt…he appears a bit fascistic.

But he’s not. I think he’s quite a heroic character. I guess you could call him the leader. Matt and I talked about what he may have done locally in the community — by locally I mean San Francisco. He was probably a policeman or something. So they are the sort of go-to people. He’s resourceful. He’s that sort of guy who is a designated leader. There’s no ego in that way. But he’s got very personal baggage that he carries. And not all things are relative. We went through the epidemic and then the subsequent rioting and postapocalyptic chaos. Then if you survived the disease and then you’re immune to the disease and you survive the other stuff, I think why put that at risk? That’s where he’s coming from.

With the shoot happening primarily on exterior locations, in quite extreme conditions, with many technical demands, it proved physically demanding for many of the cast and crew. how was it for you?

Well, if you’re spending time in the trailer, I play the ukulele. I take the ukulele and I just amuse myself with that in my downtime. On set, you tune it out. I’ve learned to, you know. I sat down many, many, many years ago with Nic Roeg. And we had a conversation about that. I said, “Sometimes I just find it so hard to come out of it and then break and then come in and I’m so distracted by…” - I was new to it all

then, and I said — “the camera, the crew, it drives me crazy sometimes…” And I remember him saying to me, “You’ve just got to learn to [tune it out], like meditation.”

And over the years [I’ve learned to] tune it out. I mean, ultimately it was easier for me. I didn’t have all the stuff in the forest.

It was pouring with rain.

Were you surprised by how complex the whole process was?

I mean it’s crazy, [how much time and effort goes into] eight seconds of work. So you kind of have to know up front, so you’re trying to sort of get the shape and feel of the movie but you keep having to go back to the special effects people because they can’t render 60 minutes of the movie and you’re only gonna use 10! You just can’t do it. There’s not hours in the day and it’s too expensive. So you kind of have to edit as you go along and only know that amount you’re gonna shoot. Which you know… And Matt’s also trying, emotionally trying to engage and have a sense of the trajectory of the film as a whole piece, and he’s watching pixels and people in mo-cap suits because he still hasn’t seen the finished film cut together. He’s only seen pieces of it cut together! how was it working with andy serkis, in all his performance-capture gear playing Caesar?

Well, I don’t get a lot of scenes with Andy.

I’m mainly based in the human camp, the compound. So I don’t get to interact with the apes in the same way as Keri [Russell] and Jason, but the thing about it is, first of all, I would rather act with Andy in a grey leotard than if he were in make-up.

Because in a sense it’s like a character in a costume, you know? You’re getting the emotion and you’re getting the eyes, you’re getting the whole thing. So he could be in a 19th century costume or he could be in

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a grey frogman’s outfit.

I did. For Zemeckis [in A Christmas Carol].

There is that key scene you share with andy, where Caesar arrives at the human settlement with his army. What was that like to shoot?

Yes, Caesar says, “Look, this is the apes’ home, this is the human home, we can live like this.” I stayed on the steps of the compound, so it’s like being across a car park, and so I couldn’t really hear the dialogue. I could see it clearly enough, but I couldn’t really hear it. I mean it’s Andy in a grey outfit on top of a ladder. That’s what I saw. On a stepladder. But one day it’s gonna be Caesar on a horse! You make these movies with just blind faith, you know? And it really is gonna be okay on the night. When the director says it’ll be all right on the night, you know [it will be].

so you have your own experience of it. How did that compare with the way you saw it being done on Dawn?

I was sort of at the beginnings of it and it was tedious, it was tedious, coming in every day and working in a grey room. I found it…

People were just saying, “it’s like theatre, isn’t it?” But they were all people that had never done theatre! It’s absolutely nothing like theatre. But it was like doing a movie, making a movie very quickly. You’d do 11 pages a day as opposed to two. ‘Cause you could just keep doing, you know? So it was like sort of making a movie very quickly in a grey room. But this… getting it out in the location, it’s gonna turn it around I think.

Did you talk to andy much on set?

Yeah! We chatted on set, and I had met him over 20 years ago. I saw him in Mojo at The Royal Court. It was when he was first on the scene. And I had run into him over the years since. So it was quite nice chatting with him on the set... The thing with Andy is that you get beyond the suit and the dots on the face and the weird helmet with the camera. You move beyond that because he’s so committed. And they as a group were so committed to these apes that when they come around the corner and they’re doing all their thing, and they’re panting and puffing and making their noises, you’d feel stupid if you didn’t join in. Do you know what I mean? If you didn’t go with them. Because the commitment is so full-on that you just have to sort of jump because they’re really taking it very seriously, and that serves us greatly. Because you just make the movie that much better.

What’s your take on Matt’s approach to the visual effects with this?

Well, he’s basically revolutionized the art form with this. What they’ve achieved in this movie is in its own way as miraculous as [the achievement of] Alfonso Cuaron with Gravity. What he’s done is he’s taken motion capture and 3D onto location. And then used natural light, one source directional lighting, long lenses, all the things that you would use on a regular movie or a more conventional movie or a not heavy-FX film and applied it to this. So he’s taken all those sort of old techniques and applied them to new technology. And I’ve seen a cut of the movie with people running around in grey uniforms and pixels hardly rendered, and even in this condition I was totally lost in the story. I think he’s done something very new here. And more than that, I said, “I can’t believe what I’m watching. I mean they look like real gorillas!” I don’t know what they did since the last movie, but the technology has come on a hundredfold. ///

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Scottish Fashion Awards 2014 Supermodels, Designers and Luxury Brands honoured in ‘SCOTLAND’S FASHION OSCARS’ as the 2014 Scottish Fashion Awards nominees are revealed.

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“These awards are now recognised around the world as the benchmark of success within the global fashion community and are without a doubt the most high profile showcase of Scottish fashion, design and textile talent in the country. They are respected around the world and judged by a panel of renowned and esteemed international industry figures and they provide an invaluable platform for emerging Scottish talent, textile manufacturers, and fashion's future leaders.”

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The finalists will be judged by an exclusive panel made up of professionals from the world’s leading fashion houses, the most renowned and respected fashion publications and leading figures in style with winners announced at the glittering awards ceremony at 8 Northumberland.

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Cinciano Wines Celino’s Italian Deli Café of Alexandra Parade is the exclusive supplier of Cinciano wines in Scotland...

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attoria di Cinciano in Poggibonsi is a small, privately owned, village set on a hill overlooking the valley of Elsa.

It is the last headland of Chianti Classico and offers an extraordinary view to the west towards san gimignano. Surrounded by olive groves and hunting reserves, 30 hectares of Sangiovese is grown in good quality limestone and clay. The main village includes the cellar where refining and preservation takes place. After sampling the fantastic wines they had to offer, during a very enjoyable wine tasting trip in July 2013, Celino’s are very proud to be the exclusive supplier of Cinciano wines in

Scotland. Cinciano is a perfect match for Celino’s as they share many of their business values – small producer, family owned, they are passionate about the product they produce and work hard to ensure that they provide the very best.

At Cinciano limestone and clay combine to create the perfect ground with vines and olive trees whose fruits they transforms expertly. In line with the tradition, the vines of Sangiovese here grow with a look at the southwest surrounded by olive groves and the forests of the hunting reserve.

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The vineyard, sign of spiritual fruitfulness, surrounds the entire hill. Nearly 30 hectares of Sangiovese partially under renovation and minor experimentations with other grapes. These are the vineyards of Cinciano.

The Heart of Cinciano - The Cellar - is divided into three different environments for the grape processing, refining and wine tasting. All within the Medieval village.

The wines are an authentic pride and passion. The strength of the Sangiovese is its symbol, tradition is its method. Each with their own unique and not repeatable personality represent the territory: the Chianti Classico: young and impetuous. the Chianti Classico Riserva: determined and elegant. the Pietraforte: deep and enchanting.

Cinciano wines, which are now available in the restaurant and over the counter in the deli, include: Cinciano Rosso I.G.P. £9.95 A young 100% Sangiovese.

Perfect with any meal.

Cinciano Bianco I.G.P. £9.95 Viogneir 70% Sauvignon Blanc 20% Grechetto 10%. Perfect as an aperitif or with fish, seafood pasta and delicate dishes. gotifredo Rosato I.G.P. £9.95 100% Sangiovese. Perfect as an aperitif or with fish and delicate dishes.

Chianti Classico D.O.C.G. £13.95 100% Sangiovese.

Perfect with meat, cheese or pasta .

Chianti Classico Riserva D.O.C.G. £21.95 100% Sangiovese. Perfect with meat and ripe cheese. super tuscan Pietraforte I.G.P. £31.95 Sangiovese 80%, Merlot 15%, Cabernet Sauvignon 5%. Perfect with meat and game.

Cinciano wines are available exclusively from Celino’s: 620 alexandra Parade, glasgow, g31 3Bt. tel: 0141 554 0523 www.celinos.com Email: info@celinos.com For more info visit Cinciano website: www.cinciano.it

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Tom Munro Financial Solutions has been shortlisted among eight other financial advisory firms for the prestigious UK investment adviser of the year awards, which will be held at a glittering ceremony in London on September 24th. I am extremely proud to be nominated given there are over 22,000 advisers practicing in the UK who are eligible to enter. So for a small local firm punching way above its weight, not a bad achievement to be listed along with some of the big players from across the UK who made the last eight. All entrant firms were judged on a number of criteria in relation to how they deliver their service. Due diligence included a detailed assessment of each firms infrastructure as well as service proposition to clients.

Having made the paperless office a realty in 2005, this is aligned to our state-of-the-art electronic client management system, where client’s investments are consolidated. Our front of office functionality is driven through our partnership with three award winning wrap platforms. The wrap is effectively an umbrella, under which we can collect all of our client’s different forms of savings, - e.g. Isa’s, Pensions, stocks and shares, unit and investment trusts, even cash. When all assets have been consolidated, we apply a uniform investment strategy, based on a carefully identified tolerance to investment risk level agreed

with each client to help achieve their longterm financial objectives.

Our clients tell us that a key attraction of our service is complete transparency. In our investment process nothing is hidden and clients see all the costs associated with their investments including, of course, the fees paid to Tom Munro Financial Solutions. Under new rules implemented in 2013, we are remunerated solely by our clients and do not receive income from any other source. This is a vital aspect to our advice process, ensuring that we have no product or product provider bias.

Another part of the agreed service to our clients is an annual review and appraisal of their personal, financial ant tax position ensuring any recommendations continually reflect their objectives. Using technology in the way we do enables us to give completely independent advice, in the most transparent value-for-money manner possible.

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