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Larkspire

I liked the first half, but found the second almost unbearably boring. Evidently I'm not a big enough fan of drugs, raves and The Happy Mondays to appreciate this properly... But I did like the stuff about Warsaw/Joy Division/New Order!
11 years 3 months ago
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viccc

An absolute mess of half-baked artistic impulses.
3 years 6 months ago
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KloVero

A lot better than I expected. It should be in the Biography list. I'm not a big fan of narration, but this one is worth it, very original. Loved how they succeeded in giving the movie the '70 cinematography, couldn't guess it was from 2002, a part from some special effects, as that how memorable pigeon scene.
9 years 2 months ago
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Borvaran

This film is amazing, Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan) is funny, smart and tragicomic at the same time, the film goes fluently between film and documentary, you dont even need to like this music, do you?
8 years 9 months ago
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Alias

"I am not a lump of hash"
12 years 5 months ago
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Siskoid

Michael Winterbottom's first film collaboration with Steve Coogan was 24 Hour Party People, a rambunctious portrait of Manchester's music scene from the mid-70s to the early 90s, told through the perspective of Factor Records founder Tony Wilson. He (like many of the musicians who lived it) has a bit part in the movie, which combines fact and folklore to tell its story, and is upfront about "printing the myth" rather than the verifiable truth. If he actually made postmodern comments in life like he does in the film, then its postmodern vibe is well warranted. And because Wilson was a television presenter, Coogan keeps breaking the fourth wall to frame the story AS a television presentation, so I'm inclined to think the postmodernism was factual. Coogan also mixes in his trademark ad libs, but they don't take over the movie like they do in The Trip series (also with Winterbottom). The style definitely enlivens what could have been a montage of moments. Lots of young-looking faces that were about to become big deals in the flick too - Sean Harris, John Simm, Christopher Eccleston, an unrecognizable Andy Sirkis, and blinbk-and-you'll-miss-him Simon Pegg... Fun stuff.
2 weeks 3 days ago
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