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Production Year: 2002 - Comedy - Director: Michael Winterbottom - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over more

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The rise and demise of idealist (and stoically ideological) Manchester independent label ... more
Factory Records and scene-setting "Madchester"
nightclub the Hacienda is the subject of Michael
Winterbottom's pop mockumentary24 Hour Party
People, the soundtrack of which naturally zooms in
on the two bands whose sonic endeavours built the
fragile empire brick-by-brick and beat-by-beat.
Naturally, those bands are Joy Division--whose
sombre granite majesty is represented by the three
singles and the 12-inch version of "She's Lost
Control"--and their liberated offspring New Order
who, aside from the inevitable and financially
Pyrrhric "Blue Monday", offer two previously
unavailable tracks, a taut live version of "New
Dawn Fades" with Moby (recorded in Los Angeles in
August 2001) and their overdue collaboration with
the Chemical Brothers on "Hear to Stay", a
happyTechnique-styled flashback of Ibizan
beach-weather pop. Plenty, too, from those
incorrigible substance-ingesting wastrels the
Happy Mondays, the shambling soundtrack to that
brief "baggy" age of acid, Es and aggro, Factory's
last sunset before sweating over the sums and the
Hacienda attracting unsavoury persons with machine
guns. Pitted throughout are influential cultural
reference points, the Sex Pistols' "Anarchy in the
UK" (their Free Trade Hall gig in 1976, attended
by many people who feature on this record, lit the
punk fuse in England's northern provinces) and
Chicago house innovator Marshall Jefferson's "Move
Your Body", veritable stations of the cross on
Factory Records road to Calvary. A tale of the
head ruled by the heart, it was Factory's love for
what they did that tore them apart. But the
memories party on.--Kevin Maidment
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Tony Wilson's 24 Hour Party People: What the Sleeve Notes Never Tell You is a curious ... more
book. It's a novelisation, by Wilson, of Frank
Cottrell Bryce's screenplay of a film ostensibly
about Wilson's years at the heart of Manchester's
music scene--a kind of post-post-modern reversal
of the trend to convert books into films.  Wilson,
a former Granada and (briefly) World in Action
television reporter became embroiled in the pop
business after attending a (now legendary) Sex
Pistols gig at Manchester's Lesser Free Trade
Hall. Only 42 people were in the audience but most
of them, including its organisers Howard Devoto
and Pete Shelley, formed punk groups of their own.
Wilson booked the Pistols for So It Goes,
Granada's answer to Top of the Pops, and then
proceeded to delight (and disgust) viewers in the
North Western region by beaming Elvis Costello,
Buzzcocks and (a foul mouthed) Iggy Pop into their
homes. (The show was axed shortly after Iggy's
performance). Undeterred Wilson and friend Alan
Erasmus started managing a band, The Duratti
Column, and opened a New Wave club, The Factory.
Aided and abetted by the DJ and musical impresario
Rob Gretton; the designer Peter Saville and the
drug-addled knob-twiddling genius Martin Hannett
it evolved into Factory Records--home of Joy
Division, latterly New Order, A Certain Ratio and
the Happy Mondays. Not content with releasing
exquisitely produced and (usually) money
haemorrhaging records--even New Order's Blue
Monday, the biggest selling 12-inch single in
history, was so sumptuously packaged that Factory
"lost three and half pence on every copy
sold"--they started an ambitious Studio 54-style
club, The Haçienda. It became the centre of the
rave scene while its scally offspring, the Happy
Mondays, stormed the charts.  As Wilson, in his
own inimitable (that is to say wayward and
spuriously fictionalised) style, reveals drugs,
guns, ill-timed property deals and the Mondays
decision to record an album in "crack central"
Barbados eventually called time on Factory Records
and The Hacienda. There are better accounts of the
whole "Madchester" phenomenon--Dave Haslam's
Manchester, England for one--but Wilson's
novelisation has an insidiously entertaining spark
about it. It's probably best approached as the
literary version of one of those additional
footage DVDs; not essential to your enjoyment of
the original film but none the less full of rather
addictive, extra snippets. --Travis Elborough
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The rise and demise of idealist (and stoically ideological) Manchester independent label ... more
Factory Records and scene-setting "Madchester"
nightclub the Hacienda is the subject of Michael
Winterbottom's pop mockumentary 24 Hour Party
People, the soundtrack of which naturally zooms in
on the two bands whose sonic endeavours built the
fragile empire brick-by-brick and beat-by-beat.
Naturally, those bands are Joy Division--whose
sombre granite majesty is represented by the three
singles and the 12-inch version of "She's Lost
Control"--and their liberated offspring New Order
who, aside from the inevitable and financially
Pyrrhric "Blue Monday", offer two previously
unavailable tracks, a taut live version of "New
Dawn Fades" with Moby (recorded in Los Angeles in
August 2001) and their overdue collaboration with
the Chemical Brothers on "Hear to Stay", a happy
Technique-styled flashback of Ibizan beach-weather
pop. Plenty, too, from those incorrigible
substance-ingesting wastrels the Happy Mondays,
the shambling soundtrack to that brief "baggy" age
of acid, Es and aggro, Factory's last sunset
before sweating over the sums and the Hacienda
attracting unsavoury persons with machine guns.
Pitted throughout are influential cultural
reference points, the Sex Pistols' "Anarchy in the
UK" (their Free Trade Hall gig in 1976, attended
by many people who feature on this record, lit the
punk fuse in England's northern provinces) and
Chicago house innovator Marshall Jefferson's "Move
Your Body", veritable stations of the cross on
Factory Records road to Calvary. A tale of the
head ruled by the heart, it was Factory's love for
what they did that tore them apart. But the
memories party on. --Kevin Maidment
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24-hour Party People - Tony Wilson 24-hour Party People - Tony Wilson
Tony Wilson's24 Hour Party People: What the Sleeve Notes Never Tell Youis a curious book. ... more
It's a novelisation, by Wilson, of Frank Cottrell
Bryce's screenplay of a film ostensibly about
Wilson's years at the heart of Manchester's music
scene--a kind of post-post-modern reversal of the
trend to convert books into films.Wilson, a former
Granada and (briefly)World in Actiontelevision
reporter became embroiled in the pop business
after attending a (now legendary) Sex Pistols gig
at Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall. Only 42
people were in the audience but most of them,
including its organisers Howard Devoto and Pete
Shelley, formed punk groups of their own. Wilson
booked the Pistols forSo It Goes, Granada's answer
toTop of the Pops, and then proceeded to delight
(and disgust) viewers in the North Western region
by beaming Elvis Costello, Buzzcocks and (a foul
mouthed) Iggy Pop into their homes. (The show was
axed shortly after Iggy's performance). Undeterred
Wilson and friend Alan Erasmus started managing a
band, The Duratti Column, and opened a New Wave
club, The Factory. Aided and abetted by the DJ and
musical impresario Rob Gretton; the designer Peter
Saville and the drug-addled knob-twiddling genius
Martin Hannett it evolved into Factory
Records--home of Joy Division, latterly New Order,
A Certain Ratio and the Happy Mondays. Not content
with releasing exquisitely produced and (usually)
money haemorrhaging records--even New Order'sBlue
Monday, the biggest selling 12-inch single in
history, was so sumptuously packaged that Factory
"lost three and half pence on every copy
sold"--they started an ambitious Studio 54-style
club, The Haçienda. It became the centre of the
rave scene while its scally offspring, the Happy
Mondays, stormed the charts.As Wilson, in his own
inimitable (that is to say wayward and spuriously
fictionalised) style, reveals drugs, guns,
ill-timed property deals and the Mondays decision
to record an album in "crack central" Barbados
eventually called time on Factory Records and The
Hacienda. There are better accounts of the whole
"Madchester" phenomenon--Dave Haslam'sManchester,
Englandfor one--but Wilson's novelisation has an
insidiously entertaining spark about it. It's
probably best approached as the literary version
of one of those additional footage DVDs; not
essential to your enjoyment of the original film
but none the less full of rather addictive, extra
snippets. --Travis Elborough
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24 Hour Party People - Single Disc Edition [2002] 24 Hour Party People - Single Disc Edition [2002]
Beginning during the dawn of Factory Records--as Tony Wilson throws himself off a cliff ... more
for Granada TV--24 Hour Party Peopleattempts to
capture the essence of the ill-fated label which
spawned Joy Division/New Order, The Happy Mondays
and the venue that started modern Club Culture,
the Hacienda in Manchester. Director Michael
Winterbottom takes a very different approach to
most music biographies, by making the film
self-aware that it is a film and ironically
looking at its own role within the history of the
"Mad-chester" scene.Inspired by Wilson's
autobiographical musings, the film is narrated in
character by Steve Coogan as Wilson. He offers
sporadic moments from his life--his "career" as a
presenter at Granada and his several
marriages--which in turn influence the destructive
nature of the label he founded. Coogan's Wilson
gives monologues to camera which remind the
audience that what they are watching is only his
perspective. Yet with Coogan in the title role
it's impossible to ignore the similarities between
Wilson and Alan Partridge; and although this adds
instant humour to the film it also instantly pins
Wilson with the comic "Partridge" tag of fated
fool. The cinematography, on the other hand, tries
faithfully to embody the feeling of the times,
from grainy celluloid for the punk-like Joy
Division gigs to bright, clean-cut images for the
birth of the Hacienda. The film also benefits from
an amazing soundtrack and strong supporting
characters. It all adds up to a picture that's
purely British in character: imbued with
irony,down-and-out inspiration, and a touch of the
surreal.On the DVD:24 Hour Party Peoplecomes as a
two-disc set, but there really is little need.
Disc 1 is loaded with great extras, such as the
deleted scenes, commentaries and Mad-chester
musings, but the second disc is a little on the
dull side. This really could have been just a
single great DVD. There's an excellent screen and
audio transfer that brings both the music and the
lurid colours to life and the disc also offers
that all-important function for hardcore clubbers:
a hard of hearing option. --Nikki Disney
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24 Hour Party People - Single Disc Edition [2002] 24 Hour Party People - Single Disc Edition [2002]
Beginning during the dawn of Factory Records--as Tony Wilson throws himself off a cliff ... more
for Granada TV--24 Hour Party People attempts to
capture the essence of the ill-fated label which
spawned Joy Division/New Order, The Happy Mondays
and the venue that started modern Club Culture,
the Hacienda in Manchester. Director Michael
Winterbottom takes a very different approach to
most music biographies, by making the film
self-aware that it is a film and ironically
looking at its own role within the history of the
"Mad-chester" scene.  Inspired by Wilson's
autobiographical musings, the film is narrated in
character by Steve Coogan as Wilson. He offers
sporadic moments from his life--his "career" as a
presenter at Granada and his several
marriages--which in turn influence the destructive
nature of the label he founded. Coogan's Wilson
gives monologues to camera which remind the
audience that what they are watching is only his
perspective. Yet with Coogan in the title role
it's impossible to ignore the similarities between
Wilson and Alan Partridge; and although this adds
instant humour to the film it also instantly pins
Wilson with the comic "Partridge" tag of fated
fool. The cinematography, on the other hand, tries
faithfully to embody the feeling of the times,
from grainy celluloid for the punk-like Joy
Division gigs to bright, clean-cut images for the
birth of the Hacienda. The film also benefits from
an amazing soundtrack and strong supporting
characters. It all adds up to a picture that's
purely British in character: imbued with irony,
down-and-out inspiration, and a touch of the
surreal.  On the DVD: 24 Hour Party People comes
as a two-disc set, but there really is little
need. Disc 1 is loaded with great extras, such as
the deleted scenes, commentaries and Mad-chester
musings, but the second disc is a little on the
dull side. This really could have been just a
single great DVD. There's an excellent screen and
audio transfer that brings both the music and the
lurid colours to life and the disc also offers
that all-important function for hardcore clubbers:
a hard of hearing option. --Nikki Disney
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Advantages: Fantastic Documentary of 80's Music Scene
Disadvantages: None

...Everything is born ... 24 Hour Party People focusses upon the birth of a scene that is stronger today than ever before. SPECIAL FEATURES: Disc 1: - BIZARRE LOVE TRAINGLE - Audio commentary featuring Tony Wilson / Audio commentary featuring Steve Coogan and Andrew Eaton - SLEEVE NOTES - Who's who in the 24 Hour Party People - UNKNOWN PLEASURES - 24 Deleted scenes - PILLS 'N' THRILLS AND BELLYACHES - Interviews - NEW ORDER 'HERE TO STAY' MUSIC ...
...Sex Pistols 2. 24 Hour Party People - Happy Mondays 3. Transmission - Joy Division 4. Ever Fallen In Love - The Buzzcocks 5. Janie Jones - The Clash 6. New Dawn Fades (Live) - New Order feat. Moby, Billy Corgan, John Frusciante 7. Atmosphere - Joy Division 8. Otis - Duritti Column 9. Voodoo Ray - A Guy Called Gerald 10. Temptation - New Order 11. Loose Fit - Happy Mondays 12. Pacific State - 808 State 13. Blue Monday - New Order 14. Move Your Body ... Read review

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