| Michael
Winterbottom |
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| Director
/ Screenwriter |
| 1961 - |
| Born March 29,
Blackburn, Lancashire, England |
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Key
Production Country: UK, USA |
| Key Genres: Drama, Period Film,
Romantic Drama |
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Collaborators:
Andrew Eaton (Producer), Frank Cottrell Boyce
(Screenwriter), Trevor Waite (Editor), Marcel Zyskind (Cinematographer),
Mark Tildesley (Production Designer), Shirley Henderson (Leading
Character Player), Peter Christelis (Editor), Steve Coogan (Leading Player), Rob Brydon
(Leading Player), Michael
Nyman (Composer) |
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Highly Recommended:
Wonderland (1999) |
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Recommended:
Jude
(1996), The Claim (2000), Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005), The Road to Guantanamo (2006) [co-directed by Mat Whitecross] |
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Worth a Look: 24 Hour Party People (2001),
In This World (2002), The Killer Inside Me (2010) |
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Approach with Caution:
Butterfly Kiss (1994), Code 46 (2003), A Mighty Heart (2007) |
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Links:
[
Amazon
] [
IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [
All-Movie
Guide ] [
Senses
of Cinema: Great Directors ] [
Wikipedia ] [
Chud Interview (2010) ] [
The
Guardian Articles ] [
Screen Online Biography ] [
IonCinema! Interview (2006)
] [
BBC: Calling the Shots ] [
The Boston Phoenix Article (2007)
] [
Sight
& Sound Article (2007)
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Books:
[
Michael Winterbottom: Interviews
] [
Michael Winterbottom (British Film Makers)
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21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films:
24 Hour Party People (2001), Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005) |
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"Winterbottom
has come out of British television, full of ideas but blessed
with practical need and an urge to tell different stories.
Let the unity of character settle in as it may. But it seems to
me, already, that Winterbottom does have a theme: that of lost
souls who are putting on a busy and ingenious display of being
safe and sound. He is working in the mainstream, and he may have
no higher urge than to be versatile and entertaining. I will
settle for that." -
David
Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002)
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"There
are few directors working in British cinema today whose output
is as consistently interesting and provocative as that of
Michael Winterbottom. Astonishingly prolific, he has been an
arthouse favourite since the 1990s although only two of his
films have crossed over into the mainstream to reach a large
audience and garner commercial as well as critical success: Jude (1996) and
24 Hour Party People (2002)." -
Deborah Allison (Senses of Cinema) |
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"I
don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the
story and that therefore in this scene you have to convey this
bit of information or emotion. I like more the feeling that, of
course, there is a shape to the story, but that each scene
should feel right, should be true at that moment, and that
gradually you accumulate these moments of truth until you get
enough of them together that it becomes a story that's
interesting." -
Michael Winterbottom
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