Why Canterbury's Law Creators Insisted on Super 16

Director Mike Figgis may be best known for the acclaimed hit Leaving Las Vegas, which ushered in a continuing renaissance in Super 16 film production that began in the mid-1990s. Figgis has earned a reputation since then as a technology-savvy artist and iconoclast, so maybe it's not surprising that, when Sony Pictures insisted that his latest TV project, Canterbury's Law, be shot in HD, Figgis defied the order.»

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