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PRODUCTION TEAM
Director :
Michael Winterbottom
Script :
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Photography :
Robby M�ller
Editor :
Trevor Waite
Cast :
Steve Coogan, Lennie James, Shirley Henderson, Paddy Considine, Andy Serkis, Sean Harris, John Simm
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24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE
Manchester 1976. Cambridge-educated Tony Wilson, a Granada TV presenter is at a live performance by a new group, the Sex Pistols. Only forty-three people are in the Manchester audience but Wilson recognizes this as a pivotal moment in pop music history. He is so inspired by the experience that he immediately heads off to meet his friend Alan Erasmus and the pair plan to embark on a career in the music business. They set up a record label, Factory Records, and proceed to sign up a number of bands destined to be some of the most influential pop artists of their time. First, Joy Division, who go on to become New Order when front man Ian Curtis commits suicide. Wilson and company launch their own club, the Hacienda, which becomes a mecca for clubbers. In a Battle of the Bands night at the club, Wilson signs a group called Happy Mondays, who finish last in a competition but end up massively successful. But the party can't last. In the early '90s the club has to close and Happy Mondays fail to deliver on a promised album."Knowing, highly sophisticated... biographical fantasia about the music scene in Manchester from the Seventies to the Nineties." -- Philip French (London Observer)
Michael Winterbottom
Born in Blackburn, England in 1961, Michael Winterbottom earned a degree at Oxford and received film training in Bristol and London. After beginning his career as a film editor for Thames Television, he directed two documentaries about Ingmar Bergman and several television series. He first earned recognition with BUTTERFLY KISS in 1995, a buddy/road movie about a pair of lesbians who go on a killing spree across Britain. Selected filmography: FAMILY (1994), GO NOW (1995), JUDE (1996), WELCOME TO SARAJEVO (1997), I WANT YOU (1998), WONDERLAND (1999), WITH OR WITHOUT YOU (1999), THE CLAIM (2000).
August 23, 2002 • 09:00:00 • PARISIEN • P4.23.1 •
August 23, 2002 • 19:00:00 • IMP�RIAL • CI.23.5 •
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