Michael Winterbottom
LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 25: Director Michael Winterbottom speaks at the'The Look Of Love' screening during the Sundance London Film and Music Festival 2013 at Sky Superscreen O2 on April 25, 2013 in London, England.
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The script had some old Alexei joke as a guide which I replaced. I sort of wrote an 80’s routine... And Michael Winterbottom got me to expand it on the day. There were Falklands jokes and a Hunger Strikes references and Thatcher. I have no real idea if it was funny as the audience were acting too, of course, but I left feeling I could have made a living in the 80s.More quotes »
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'Trance' review: Flawed but compelling Danny Boyle
his contemporaries Ang Lee and Michael Winterbottom -- and unlike a lot of directors -- Danny Boyle (" Slumdog Millionaire ," " 127 Hours ") never makes the same movie twice. He also seems intent, like Lee, to eventually make a movie in every conceivable genre Read more »
Around the web
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Winterbottom Set For "Trip" Sequel, "Angel"
Winterbottom is set to helm "The Trip To Italy," a sequel to the acclaimed BBC2 comedy hit "The Trip". Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan will return for the project which is expected to be produced in the same format as the previous incarnation - both a six part from Original Signal: Movies Read more »
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'The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a very American story'
is nothing like cultivating a nostalgia for a place where you have never been. As an actor you have done two films with Michael Winterbottom and then one film with Mira. How different are they as directors? They are very different. Michael's films have been from Rediff Read more »
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Does porn belong in a more open society?
struck me that in some small way I must have contributed a little to the man's vast fortune. Watching The Look Of Love, Michael Winterbottom's recent film about Paul Raymond, the pornographer and one-time richest man in Britain, it struck me that in some small from Herald Scotland Read more »
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Changing gear
limited. There is a bit of form for Hudson playing dramatic roles. In 2010 she and Jessica Alba were the surprise casting in Michael Winterbottom’s violent adaptation of Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me, with Hudson playing the suspicious girlfriend of from GulfToday.ae Read more »
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The Look of Love – review
Look of Love: biopic of Paul Raymond, owner of the Raymond Revuebar in London's Soho. Michael Winterbottom and Steve Coogan combined to great effect in 2002’s 24 Hour Party People, where Coogan played infamous music label entrepreneur Tony Wilson, and they from Hackney Citizen Read more »
