24 Hour Party People (Strapline: How Manchester Became Great) is the true(ish) story of how Manchester became one of the coolest places in the universe. It takes us from the punk years, through the creation of Factory Records, through the life and times of the (in)famous Hacienda and the Madchester ... Read review
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Tony Wilson: a TV presenter, who, inspired by the Sex Pistol's first Manchester gig, found the now famous Factory Records and the Hacienda nightclub. The bands he signs include Joy Division and the Happy Mondays - who became the seminal artists of their time - whilst the Hacienda transforms Manchester - a declining industrial city into Mad-chester - the place to be. However, as the debts soar and the hangovers rocket, things begin to get completely out of hand... Comedian Steve Coogan is brilliantly cast as the wry Wilson, struggling to hold it all together in a world of vice and angst-ridden geniuses. The fabulous soundtrack includes hits from The Happy Mondays, New Order and Joy Division.
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f**k off Written in blood The Factory non-contract set out the manifesto for one of the most influential and progressive record labels of our time...Manchester 1976: Anthony Wilson Granada TV presenter is at an early Sex Pistols gig. Inspired by this pivotal moment in music history he and his friends set up Factory Records. They go on to conquer the world with Joy Division (who become New Order) then again with the Happy Mondays. Riding high on their success and just about keeping the business afloat the Factory directors decide to give something back to their city to open a club - The Hacienda. Packed on opening night but losing money hand over fist for the first five years The Hacienda and the Happy Mondays take their unique brand of hedonism to breaking point. From the dawn of punk to the death of acid house Anthony Wilson was at the centre of it all. Love him or hate him you can't possibly ignore him.
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most engaging and involving works this year (Premiere) '24 Hour Party People' is a film that follows the rise fall and rise again of promoter Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan) and the wild rave culture he brought to Madchester England and the world!
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Production Year: 2003 - Comedy - Director: John Crowley - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Colin Farrell, Shirley Henderson, Cillian Murphy, Colm Meaney, Rory Keenan, Laurence Kinlan
(+) Because of the new series the box set isn't complete, which means it will be cheaper! (-) It isnt the complete box set so you'll have to buy the new dvds seperatly or wait for the new set!
Comedy - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Tessa Peake-Jones, Buster Merryfield, David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst
Advantages: Exciting, Funny, Great Acting, Great Music Disadvantages: None for me
24 Hour Party People (Strapline: How Manchester Became Great) is the true(ish) story of how Manchester became one of the coolest places in the universe. It takes us from the punk years, through the creation of Factory Records, through the life and times of the (in)famous Hacienda and the Madchester phenomenon. It is a superb British movie.
At the centre of the film is Tony Wilson (played by Steve Coogan), presenter of Granada local ... ...and the Hacienda. Wilson is a strange and fascinating mixture: clean-cut though remarkably erudite presenter by day, bringing us features on ducks that can round up sheep and the oldest canal-worker in Manchester as well as the news, and unspeakably fashionable clubber, gigger, drug-dabbler and chance-spotter by night. He is a self-styled hero, an egomaniac, an intellectual name-dropper, and, conversely, a man with a decent line in self-deprecation ... more
24 Hour Party People (Strapline: How Manchester Became Great) is the true(ish) story of how Manchester became one of the coolest places in the universe. It takes us from the punk years, through the creation of Factory Records, through the life and times of the (in)famous Hacienda and the Madchester phenomenon. It is a superb British movie.
At the centre of the film is Tony Wilson (played by Steve Coogan), presenter of Granada local news programmes, music enthusiast, trend vulture, founder-partner of Factory Records and the Hacienda. Wilson is a strange and fascinating mixture: clean-cut though remarkably erudite presenter by day, bringing us features on ducks that can round up sheep and the oldest canal-worker in Manchester as well as the news, and unspeakably fashionable clubber, gigger, drug-dabbler and chance-spotter by night. He is a self-styled hero, an egomaniac, an intellectual name-dropper, and, conversely, a man with a decent line in self-deprecation and humour. As such, he is the perfect anchor for this frenetic movie.
After a shot of Wilson hang-gliding and crashing unceremoniously for Granada Reports (which we are told in a talk-to-camera piece by Wilson is symbolic of what is to come: "I have one word for you: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don't, it doesn't matter."), we move to the first Sex Pistols gig in Manchester. Here we observe some of the characters who are to become pivotal in Manchester's cultural renaissance:
Rob Gretton (played by Paddy Considine): Joy Division and New Order manager, partner in Factory and the Hacienda.
Lindsay Wilson (played by Shirley Henderson): Wilson's wife, huge influence on the setting up of Factory.
Martin Hannett (played by Andy Serkis): Genius producer, Factory partner, excessive nutcase.
Ian Curtis (played by Sean Harris): Lead singer of legendary post-punk band Joy Division.
Bernard Sumner (played by John Simm): Joy Division member, New Order singer.
Peter Hook (played by Ralf Little): Joy Division bassist, New Order bassist.
Intercutting Wilson's TV work with Manchester's burgeoning music scene, we then begin our journey through punk and rave, sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll and business.
The film is deliberately chaotic, and as fast-paced as the music it celebrates. And what music! Along the way we get to see and hear The Sex Pistols, The Buzzcocks, The Clash, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Jam, Joy Division, A Certain Ratio, New Order and, of course, The Happy Mondays.
Often, especially with the punk concerts, the film mixes real concert footage with newly-created crowd-scenes featuring the film's actors. It works brilliantly, giving the music and the era an immediacy that makes you feel as though you are discovering it for the first time all over again.
In later scenes, we have Joy Division, New Order and The Happy Mondays played by actors, and these actors have been so perfectly cast that you believe they are the real people.
It's hard to single out any actor in this movie, as they are all exceptional. Coogan as Wilson is spot-on, capturing his voice and gestures to a tee, and presenting him as a highly intelligent but uncomplicated mixture of bravado, insecurity and hunger.
Sean Harris as Ian Curtis is amazing, filling him with a nervous ferocity, intensity and weirdness that make his eventual suicide inevitable.
Other actors to note include Peter Kay as club owner Don Tonay, Lennie James as Alan Erasmus (Factory partner) and Keith Allen as a London Records representative.
And Danny Cunningham as the vile and dislikeable but hugely talented rude, arrogant, unreliable and drug-addled Shaun Ryder is one of the finest performances you're likely to witness in a biopic.
Adding to the reality and immediacy we have several people popping up who really were there at the time: Paul Ryder (Happy Mondays bassist) and Rowetta (Happy Mondays singer), to name but two.
Directed by Michael Winterbottom, the style mirrors the content of this movie. It is a jittery, fast montage of grainy realism, real archive footage and perfectly recreated set pieces. There are many talks to camera from several of the characters, often telling us what is to come next and sometimes putting a different perspective on what we have just seen by questioning its authenticity. All in all, it is a very post-modern film (and 'post-modern is a term you'll hear a lot from the lips of Wilson throughout).
The real star of the film, though, is the music itself, and its presentation in chronological order, alongside the cultural changes that accompanied it, make the move from punk to rave seem a natural and necessary progression.
The film is not just a celebration of the rise of Factory and the Hacienda, it is also a celebration of its fall. It offers no regrets about Factory's lack of business sense, Wilson's cocaine addiction, Curtis's suicide, the Mondays degeneration, the Hacienda's descent into drug-fuelled gangland violence and eventual closure. It merely presents us with a chance to relive one of the most exciting events in popular culture in the late 20th Century.
It ends on a defiantly upbeat note, with Wilson and The Mondays coming down from ecstasy on a Manchester roof where Wilson is presented with a vision of God - looking like himself - telling him it was all ok.
Conclusion ++++++++++
I LOVED this film.
But then I loved punk. I was 14 in '76 and hearing it for the first time was life-changing. I LOVED Joy Division, New Order, and most of all, The Mondays.
Reliving years '76 to '92 through this film was an exhilarating, nostalgic, inspiring experience.
I approached the film with trepidation - it could so easily have all turned out wrong - and left it feeling bloody fantastic.
I highly recommend this film to anyone who was there, anyone who watched from afar, and anyone who wants to find out what the hell the whole Madchester thing was about.
Advantages: The Best British Movie in Years Disadvantages: Will not appeal to everyone
...to a preview screening of 24 Hour Party People. Now never being one to say no to a freebie I grabbed my coat and toddled off to the cinema. I knew a little bit about the movie before I arrived but I was not exactly sure what to expect. I knew it was about the Manchester music scene and featured Joy Division and the Happy Mondays but apart from that I was going in there with no real idea of what I was about to watch.
STORY
The movie starts in the ... ...TV, apart from his quirky local news features he also presents the only TV show in Britain at the time that would broadcast music by the likes of Iggy Pop and the Sex Pistols. Tony Wilson was an unlikely music pioneer; a Cambridge graduate who would appear to be more at home sitting in a dinner party than starting up his own New Wave club but this story is full of unlikely characters. The thing is it is true.
Tony starts his own night at a club ...
bigkenny 05.04.2002
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Advantages: One of the best British films to be made so far Disadvantages: Jumpy, Jerky opening and closing credits....headache city (which I guess was the point after all)
...all, and so starts the 24 Hour Party People journey...
I've been waiting to see this movie for over a year, and with great anticipation, I take my seat as the lights dim. After a jarring credit sequence we're greeted to the sight of Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan) about to take flight suspended beneath a hang glider. The symbolism is not lost...
What follows is a fantastic insight into the Manchester music scene, mostly from the viewpoint of Coogan's ... ...movie expecting everything you see to be exactly the way it happened, then you'll be mildly disappointed, as director Michael Winterbottom has taken a few liberties with certain things (I know A Certain Ratio may have worn fake tan *once*, but I don't remember it being Tony Wilson who actually applied it).
Once you've got over this tongue-in-cheek liberty taking, you'll really enjoy yourself, I found myself laughing out loud at more than one point. ...
Cubz 09.04.2002
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Advantages: Funny, Good Story, Good Music Disadvantages: Doesn't show the success of Madchester in the UK
...Records being at the forefront. 24 Hour Party People tells the story of the Madchester scene and Factory's spectacular decline into oblivion. All of it is told through the eyes of Factory supremo Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan). Factory was the label that released records from Joy Division, New Order and The Happy Mondays. Unlike most labels they had a contract where the record company split profits 50/50 with artists and no one was actually contracted ... ...For example New Orders 'Blue Monday' was released in some nifty packaging which meant that Factory lost money on every record before it was even sold. Wilson's thinking was that it wouldn't sell much anyway, history now shows the record as being on of the best selling 12"'s with 140,000 copies shifted. Factory were also behind 'The Hacienda' nightclub which was always packed in the height of the music scene but no money was made because no one drank, ...
utero 14.05.2003
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Advantages: interesting Disadvantages: still low budget
- "24 hours party people" by Michael Winterbottom Manchester 4 ever! Michael Winterbottom is a British director very well known to the festival audience. He is not the big budget filmmaker, but his films are quite commercial, by any means. 1995 his film, "Butterfly kiss" brought up some British actresses out on the light of the day, for the big budget Hollywood film production. No doubt that his films are having the great art values ["Jude" 1996, ... ...without you"1999 , "The Claim" 2000] leading the score with the mainstream audience just as well. Michael Winterbottom studied English at Oxford University, than after he went to study film studies in London and Bristol. His first film editing he has got with Thames Television, keeping on with shooting documentaries about Ingmar Bergman. He was nominated for BAFTA Award for teen TV film "Strangers". But the big name on the British television he made ...
barefoot777 28.07.2004
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Advantages: Great music, comic moments, true life Disadvantages: Fast moving, hard to follow at times
This film started off with an hilarious moment showing Tony Wilson hangliding. Coogan manages to make the character of Wilson a figure of fun and not the Tony Wilson we see on Granada Television, but all in all, a great film about the rise of the Manchester music scene and his career as a band manager. I particularly enjoyed the Joy Division story and the memorable performance by Ian Curtis, their tragic vocalist.
At times, the film was hard to ...
clarejoanne 27.06.2003
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Staggeringly versatile director Michael Winterbottom follows up his epic Western THE CLAIM with a period piece of a completely different variety. A sprawling, visceral tribute to the legendary Manchester music scene that flourished between the years of 1976 and 1992, 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE recreates that influential era with reckless exuberance. In order to bring structure to the tale, Winterbottom and screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce focus their attentions on Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan), the man who was responsible for making it all happen. A television reporter by day, Wilson also led a notorious double life as band manager (Joy Division, the Happy Mondays, James), label president (Factory Records), and club owner (The Hacienda). Fiercely determined and dangerously stubborn, Wilson's energy gave an entire subculture of Manchester youths their place in the spotlight, forever changing the face of popular music in the process. Shot by acclaimed cinematographer Robby Muller in faded digital video, Winterbottom's pulsating film tears through its subject matter like an ecstasy induced history lesson. The performances are flawless from top to bottom, most notably Wilson, Sean Harris, Paddy Considine, John Simm, and Danny Cunningham. A must-see for music aficionados, Winterbottom's film is also worth viewing for its sheer sense of hyperkinetic entertainment.
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