24 Hour Party People (Vanilla Version) (DVD)

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, ...
...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. ...

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...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 ...

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...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. ...

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...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, ...

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- "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 ...

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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 ...

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