24 Hour Party People (2002), 116 mins

Director: Michael Winterbottom
Producer: Andrew Eaton
Screenwriter: Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Director of Photography: Robby Muller

Main Cast:
Steve Coogan, Shirley Henderson, Paddy Considine, Sean Harris, Danny Cunningham, Andy Serkis

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Black Coffee (2002), 75 mins

Director: Wilma Smith
Producers: Wilma Smith, Duncan Finnigan
Screenwriter: Wilma Smith
Director of Photography: John Bannan

Main Cast:
Duncan Finnigan, Donna Nicholson, Frank Livingstone, Mickey Kearney

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The Day I Will Never Forget (2002),
90 mins

Director: Kim Longinotto
Producer: Paul Hamann, Richard McKerron
Screenwriter: Mary Milto
Director of Photography: Kim Longinotto

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Do I Love You? (2002), 74 mins

Director: Lisa Gornick
Producer: Lisa Gornick
Screenwriter: Lisa Gornick
Director of Photography: Inge Blackman and others

Main Cast:
Lisa Gornick and others

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Drop

Director: Davies-Llewellyn
Producers: Robert Curtis, Kevin Jones, Davis-Llewellyn
Executive Producer: Maf Lewis
Associate Producer: Tim Corrigan, Elizabeth Corrigan, Bill Duddridge

Main Cast: Scott Simon Duddridge, Clayton Philip MacKenzie, Nelson Kevin Jones, Brook Gary Newman, Bridget Juliette Gamlin, George Lee Smith, Lizard Ian Meyrick

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The Game of Their Lives (2002), 80 mins

Director: Daniel Gordon
Producer: Daniel Gordon
Directors of Photography: Nick Bennett & Daryl Kibblewhite

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Me Without You (2001), 107mins

Director: Sandra Goldbacher
Producer: Finola Dwyer
Screenwriter: Sandra Goldbacher
Director of Photography: Denis Crossan

Main Cast:
Anna Frierl, Michelle Williams, Trudie Styler

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Baadasssss Cinema (2002), 56 mins

Director: Isaac Julien
Producers: Paula Jalfon, Colin MacCabe
Directors of Photography: Jonathan Partridge, Neal Brown, Gary Kinkead

Main Cast:
Samuel L Jackson, Quentin Tarantino, Pam Grier

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The Men From The Agency (2002),
68 mins

Director: Michael Wadding
Producer:
Screenwriter: Michael Wadding
Director of Photography: Paul Lang

Main Cast:
David Puttnam, Alan Parker, Ridley Scott

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Nobody Someday (2002), 99 mins

Director: Brian Hill
Producer: Caroline Levy
Director of Photography: Simon Niblet, Michael Timney

Main Cast:
Robbie Williams

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Out of Control (2002), 90 mins

Director: Dominic Savage
Producer: Ruth Caleb
Screenwriter: Dominic Savage
Director of Photography: Barry Ackroyd

Main Cast:
Tamzin Outhwaite, Danny Young, Leo Gregory, Akemnji Ndifernyou

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Paradise Grove (2002), 93 mins

Director: Charles Harris
Producer: David Castro
Screenwriter: Charles Harris
Director of Photography: Miles Cook

Main Cast:
Ron Moody, Rula Lenska, Lee Blakemore, Leyland O’Brien

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Room 36 (2002), 88 mins

Director: Jim Groom
Producer: Tim Dennison
Screenwriters: Jim Groom, Tim Dennison, David Read
Director of Photography: David Read

Main Cast:
Brian Murphy, Paul Herzberg, Portia Booroff

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Silent Grace (2001), 85mins

Director: Maeve Murphy
Producer: Maeve Murphy
Screenwriter: Maeve Murphy
Director of Photography: David Katznelson

Main Cast:
Orla Brady, Conor Mullen, Cathleen Bradley, Cara Seymour


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DEADWOOD (2002), 90 mins

Director: Simon Ubsdell
Producer: Mark Ubsdell
Screenwriter: Simon Ubsdell
Director of Photography: Brett Turnball

Main Cast:
Jack Davenport, Angus Deayton, Demetri Goritsas, David Soul

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Venus and Mars (2001), 80 mins

Director: Kieron Butler
Producer: Benedict Beaumont
Screenwriter: Kieron Butler
Director of Photography: Kieron Butler

Main Cast:
Christopher Gentleman, Cissy Sargent, Sarah Benjamin, Tim Holmes, Dan Travis

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Wanted (2002), 105 mins

Director: Kim Hopkins
Producer: ????
Screenwriter: Kim Hopkins
Director of Photography: Kim Hopkins

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Born Freak (2001), 50 mins

Director: Paul Sapin
Producer: ????
Director of Photography: Tony Coldwell
Main Cast: Mat Fraser

Where Has Eternity Gone? (2002),
49 mins

Director: Barney Snow
Producer: Barney Snow
Director of Photography: Barney Snow

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The Last Storyteller (2002), 52 mins

Director: Desmond Bell
Producer: Margo Harkin
Screenwriter: Desmond Bell
Director of Photography: Scott Ward


33x Around the Sun (2003), 55 mins

Director: John Hardwick
Producer: Derrin Schlesinger
Screenwriter: John Hardwick
Director of Photography: Danny Cohen

Main Cast: Lars Rudolph, Eileen Walsh

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Footprints (2002), 42mins

Director: Ben Hopkins
Producer: Hans W. Geißendörfer
Screenwriter: Ben Hopkins
Director of Photography: Gary Clarke

Main Cast: Christopher Horwood, Ku Song, Amisai, Kham Bai Sai Wong, Pu Wiang, General Sir Hugh Beach, Mohammad Sharif, Rae McGrath, Karim

AIPS - The American Infantry Preservation Society ( 2001),
26 mins

Director: Adam Smith
Producer: Sam Pattinson
Director of Photography:

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Dim Sum (2002), 36 mins

Director: Jane Wong
Producer: ????
Director of Photography: Jon Driscoll

Hull’s Angel (2002), 50 mins

Director: Sean McAllister
Producer: Sean McAllister
Director of Photography: Sean McAllister

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Retrospective: Michael Winterbottom

Some of the recently successful directors of the New British Cinema, such as Guy Ritchie or Shane Meadows, have established and worked within their own closely defined genres. To talk of the „new Winterbottom„, however, doesn‘t bring to mind an expected style, predetermined location or instantly recognisable rhythm of dialogue. Instead, the Lancashire born filmaker‘s body of work over the past ten years has shown him to be one of the most versatile, fearless directors working in Britain today.

He first earned recognition with Butterfly Kiss (1995), a controversial revision of the road movie and serial killer genres, adapted Thomas Hardy’s novel into an unyieldingly bleak Jude (1996), and made the haunting romantic thriller I Want You (1998). His war drama Welcome to Sarajevo, and his homage to the legendary Hacienda club of 1980’s Manchester, 24 Hour Party People, have shown a director willing to visit the widest range of subject matter and cinematic styles. No theme has proven more challenging than that of In This World, recipient of the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlinale: an extraordinary documentary drama that follows two Afghan refugees travelling from exile in Pakistan to the distant promise of Blair’s Britain.

Winterbottom’s gift for intense, character-driven storytelling was first on display in his television work. A highlight of his early career is the four part BBC drama Family, an acclaimed portrait of a working class Irish family surviving alcoholism and violence.

Retrospektive: Michael Winterbottom

Einige der derzeit erfolgreichen Regisseure des Neuen Britischen Kinos wie Guy Ritchie oder Shane Meadows haben in ihren eigenen, eng umrissenen Genres gearbeitet und sich dort etabliert. Von einem neuen Film von Michael Winterbottom erwartet man aber keinen bestimmten Stil, etwa durch den Ort oder einem sofort erkennbaren Dialogrhythmus. Statt dessen untermauert die Unterschiedlichkeit seiner Filme der letzten zehn Jahre, dass der in Lancashire geborene Winterbottom einer der vielseitigsten, unerschrockensten Regisseure des Vereinten Königreichs ist.

Erste Aufmerksamkeit erzielte er mit Butterfly Kiss (1995), einer kontroversen Überholung des Genres der Road Movies und Serienmörder. Er adaptierte Thomas Hardys Roman als eine unnachgiebige, freudlose Welt in Jude (1996) und machte den eindringlich romantischen Thriller I Want You (1998). Sein Kriegsdrama Welcome To Sarajevo und seine Hommage in 24 Hour Party People an den legendären Hacienda Club der 80er Jahren in Manchester haben bewiesen, dass Winterbottom die größte Bandbreite von Themen und Stilen anvisiert – und auch beherrscht.

Kein Thema hat sich als kontroverser erwiesen als In This World, der mit dem Goldenen Bären der diesjährigen Berlinale ausgezeichnet wurde. Es ist ein außergewöhnliches dokumentarisches Drama, das zwei afghanische Flüchtlinge auf ihrer Reise vom Exil in Pakistan zu den viel versprechenden, weit entfernten Verheißungen von Blairs Großbritannien begleitet.

Winterbottoms Talent für intensives, charakterbestimmtes Geschichtenerzählen zeigte sich zuerst bei seiner Fernseharbeit. Ein Glanzstück der Anfänge seiner Laufbahn ist das vierteilige BBC-Drama Family, ein hochgelobtes Porträt einer irischen Arbeiterfamilie, die Alkoholismus und Gewalt übersteht.

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Black Nor White
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Year of Procuction: 2002

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How to Cope with Death
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Year of Procuction: 2001/ 2002

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Best of Scottish Screen
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Year of Production: 2002

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Chasms
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Year of Procuction: 2002

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