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24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE
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Winterbottom's ambitious, stylistically raw feature covers the Manchester new-wave music scene through the eyes of Factory Records' Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan).
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9 SONGS
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Enormously controversial and unrelentingly graphic, Michael Winterbottom proclaimed this drama to be the most sexually explicit film ever released in mainstream British cinema. He's right--Kieran O'Brien and Margot Stilley star as an attractive young couple who frequent rock clubs in between bouts of wild sex. The man's memories of the affair (recollected during a flight across barren Antarctica) offer a level of formal complexity, as do Winterbottom's gritty video close-ups. "Softcore structuralism in the service of hardcore sex" (J. Hoberman, Village Voice). Michael Winterbottom---Great Britain---2005---70 mins.
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BAD NEWS BEARS (THORNTON)
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Billy Bob Thornton takes Walter Matthau's seat on the bench for this star-studded remake of the perennial comedy classic about a woefully inept Little League team. Directed by Richard Linklater (Slacker), the film stars Thornton as a boozing, womanizing ex-major leaguer who agrees to take the reins of a team of bumbling misfits. Before long the team is in-shape and gearing up to challenge their rival Yankees in the championship game. With Marcia Gay Harden and Greg Kinnear. Richard Linklater---USA---2005---113 mins.
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BEFORE SUNRISE
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Ethan Hawke is a heartbroken young journalist from Texas who invites a beautiful young French student, Julie Delpy, to take a sojourn in Vienna. It leads to a wonderful adventure/romance where the thought that they may never be together again permeates every moment. Richard Linklater---USA---1995---101 mins.
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BEFORE SUNSET
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Richard Linklater's sequel to Before Sunrise reunites Ethan Hawke and Julie Deply, who meet by chance in Paris, but with only 80 minutes to spend together.
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BUTTERFLY KISS
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In this horrific, comedic and romantic, female-driven alternative drama, the mentally unbalanced and dangerous Eunice (Amanda Plummer) meets a pretty, shy gas station attendant named Miriam (Saskia Reeves), and the two become lovers. Miriam joins Eunice on a murderous road trip across Britain, thinking she can save her friend from her self-destruction. A "twisted British answer to Thelma & Louise spiced with dashes of Heavenly Creatures and Natural Born Killers" (The New York Times). Michael Winterbottom---Great Britain---1995---90 mins.
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CLAIM, THE (WINTERBOTTOM)
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Bleak and beautiful, The Claim is yet another impressive feature from the versatile and prolific Michael Winterbottom. Based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge, the film is set in 1867 in the heavy snow of the gold-mining country of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Peter Mullan (My Name Is Joe) stars as the unchallenged ruler of the town of Kingdom Come, a man who harbors a terrible secret from his past. When a young, confident surveyor for the Central Pacific Railroad (Wes Bentley, American Beauty) arrives, the future of Kingdom Come suddenly is in question, while the town's quietly brooding monarch slowly succumbs to his great weaknesses. Stunningly photographed by Alwin Kuchler with a superb score by Michael Nyman. Also starring Sarah Polley, Milla Jovovich, and Nastassja Kinski. Michael Winterbottom---Great Britain---2000---121 mins.
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CODE 46
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Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People) directs this chilly film that's part sci-fi romance, part paranoiac thriller. Set in an Orwellian future where government forces curtail reproductive freedoms and allow cloning to run rampant, Tim Robbins plays a fraud investigator who ends up falling for the culprit (Samantha Morton) in a scheme to illegally advance civil liberties. Winterbottom mostly succeeds at the tricky task of grafting a political manifesto to a Hollywood thriller. "Intelligent and perhaps prophetic" (David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor). Michael Winterbottom---Great Britain---2003---92 mins.
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DAZED AND CONFUSED (CRITERION)
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Richard Linklater (Slacker) takes a hilarious and subtly profound look at the last day of school--and one wild night--in the lives of a group of high school students in 1976. The film offers far more than a mere return to bongs and bell bottoms, polyester and pukka shells, macrame and mood rings. Linklater paints highly empathic portraits of youths learning to enjoy the ride and accept the road ahead. "The most slyly funny and dead-on portrait of American teenage life ever made" (Entertainment Weekly). Richard Linklater---USA---1993---103 mins.
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DAZED CONFUSED / FAST TIMES
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The party's going all night long with two classics of wild adolescence packed with casts of future stars. In Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater, 1993, 103 mins.), Richard Linklater (Slacker) takes a hilarious and subtly profound look at the last day of school--and one wild night--in the lives of a group of high school students in 1976. Stars Jason London, Ben Affleck, Matthew McConaughey, Joey Lauren Adams, Milla Jovovich, Parker Posey, Adam Goldberg and more. One of the best teen comedies of the 1980's, the trul y funny Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling, 1982, 92 mins.) captures the comic awkwardness of a generation caught in between the anything-goes spirit of the 1970s and the nothing-matters anxiety of the 1980s. Cameron Crowe adapted his semi-autobiographical novel for the screen. With Jennifer Jason Leigh, Phoebe Cates, Judge Reinhold, Ray Walston, Anthony Edwards, Eric Stoltz and Sean Penn in his star-making role as the blissfully Richard Linklater/Amy Heckerling---USA---1993/1982---195 mins.
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FAST FOOD NATION
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Richard Linklater takes the Thank You for Smoking approach to a Super Size Me subject in this satirical adaptation of Eric Schlosser's food industry expose. Greg Kinnear plays a marketing guy for a popular fast food chain who tries to make "corporate" act on his startling findings--the burgers are filled with crap. This plot intertwines with stories about the illegal immigrants working in their meat packing plant and a disenfranchised burger-flipping girl gone eco-activist. The Grade A ensemble cast includes Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Kris Kristofferson, Esai Morales, Wilmer Valderrama, Bruce Willis, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Luis Guzman, and Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine). "As blunt as Fast Food Nation is, it's also a surprising piece of social criticism to emerge (like Borat) f rom the status quo folks at Fox" (J. Hoberman, Village Voice). Richard Linklater---Great Britain/USA---2006---113 mins.
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IN THIS WORLD
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The arduous journey from Pakistan to London taken by two Afghan boys seeking refuge is chronicled in this powerful film from Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People). Traveling through Iran, Turkey, Italy, France and finally Great Britain, the boys endure harrowing situations and must learn to completely trust each other in order to survive. Winner of the Golden Bear, the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the Peace Film Prize at the 2003 Berlin Film Festival. "Astonishing" (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times). Michael Winterbottom---Great Britain---2002---88 mins.
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ME AND ORSON WELLES
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In Richard Linklater's breezy period picture, heartthrob Zac Efron stars as a teenage boy thrust into the spotlight by Orson Welles (Christian McKay) in the young director's mounting of Julius Caesar at the Mercury Theater in 1937. Based on a novel by Robert Kaplow. Co-starring Claire Danes, Eddie Marsan, and Ben Chaplin.
Richard Linklater---Great Britain---2009---114 mins.
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MIGHTY HEART, A (JOLIE)
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After The Road to Guantanamo, Michael Winterbottom returned to post-9/11 territory with this gritty, fast-paced recreation of Mariane Pearl's intimate memoir about the life, kidnapping, and beheading of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Angelina Jolie puts her star persona to work as Mariane, adding dramatic gravitas to a story some believe came to commercial cinema too soon. The Pearls arrive in Pakistan on Sept. 12, 2001. The usually cautious Daniel leaves to interview an extremist leader and never returns. The brunt of A Mighty Heart surrounds Mariane's confrontations with Pakistani and American authorities, the ill-fated investigation--mired in politics--and the infuriating and irreversible aftermath. With Dan Futterman, Archie Panjabi, Mohammed Afzal, Mushtaq Khan, and Daud Khan. Michael Winterbottom---USA---2007---107 mins.
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NEWTON BOYS
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From the director of Slacker, Dazed and Confused and Before Sunrise. Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, Skeet Ulrich, Vincent D'Onofri o, Juliana Margulies and Dwight Yoakam star in this action-packed, true-life adventure about America's most successful bank robbers. Richard Linklater---USA---1998---122 mins.
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ROAD TO GUANTANAMO
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Michael Winterbottom won a Silver Bear at Berlin for this harrowing docudrama about the Tipton Three, a trio Muslims who were held at Guantanamo Bay for two years without charge. By mistakenly ending up in a Taliban convoy after drifting into Afghanistan after a wedding in Pakistan, British-born South Asians Shafiq (Riz Ahmed), Ruhel (Farhad Harun), and Asif (Arfan Usman) find themselves in the middle of a Kafkaesque nightmare. Filmed on DV with spliced news footage and interviews with the real Tipton Three, Winterbottom's achievement is "a film that must be seen to understand the sad truths of our times" (Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle). In English and Urdu with Michael Winterbottom/Mat Whitecross---Great Britain---2006---95 mins.
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SCANNER DARKLY, A
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Richard Linklater's Rotoscope-animated sci-fi tale, adapted from a Philip K. Dick novel, is set in near-future Orange County, where Orwellian tactics prevail.
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SCHOOL OF ROCK
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Manic actor/comedian Jack Black (Shallow Hal) is hilarious as a wannabe rock star-turned-substitute teacher who transforms a class of introverted 5th graders into a rock band. Directed by Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Slackers) and scripted by Mike White (The Good Girl, Chuck and Buck), this is high-energy, solid entertainment with both kid and adult appeal. "...proves you can make a family film that's alive and well-acted and smart and perceptive and funny -- and that rocks." (Roger Ebert, Chicago Richard Linklater---USA---2003---108 mins.
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SLACKER
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A true sleeper. Richard Linklater's first feature film is a wickedly funny social satire on a new American sub-culture that's inventive, quite bizarre and refreshingly offbeat. Filmed entirely in Austin, Texas, with a cast of hundreds of local residents. The film is a human chain letter: you meet one person and through that person you meet another person, and another, and so on. The local characters voice their opinions on a variety of subjects, including Madonna's pap smear, the sniper Charles Whitman, and the JFK Richard Linklater---USA---1991---101 mins.
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TAPE (LINKLATER)
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Released the same year as his acclaimed animation experiment, Waking Life, Richard Linklater's Tape is an equally compelling, if formally more modest, work. Taking place entirely in one small motel room, the story follows a small-time drug dealer (Ethan Hawke) obsessed with an episode from the past. An old friend (Robert Sean Leonard), now a filmmaker, meets him in his room, where he finds a dark secret from years before brought back to light. Uma Thurman is the young woman at the center of it all in a provocative drama that portrays the extremes of how people deal with the past. Based on a play by Stephen Belber, this feature was part of an Independent Film Channel project in which filmmakers were asked to produce a digital video feature on a budget of $150,000 or less.
Richard Linklater---USA---2001---86 mins.
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