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| 24 Hour Party People | |||
“24 Hour Party People chronicles the rock scene in Manchester, England, from the emergence of the Sex Pistols in 1976 until the endgame of Tony Wilson’s recording and club-owning career in the early 90s. Wilson, rambunctiously played by Steve Coogan, is the ubiquitous guide of this post-Beatles magical mystery tour. He participates in every notable incident and frequently turns to the camera with spunky comments, annotations, and asides. He also provides the film’s most clever storytelling device, since his offhand remarks allow screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce to cram enormous amounts of information into a two-hour running time. At first, the direct-address technique threatens to make the picture too arty and self-conscious for the aggressively grungy story it has to tell, but Coogan’s magnetic acting pulls it off… It also suits the personality of Wilson himself, wheeling and dealing in the rock world’s lower depths while wearing spiffy suits, boasting about his Cambridge degree, and insisting that Manchester’s madness is postmodern to its bones.” – David Sterritt and Mikita Brottman, indieWIRE |
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| UK 2001 | |||
Director: Michael Winterbottom With: Steve Coogan (Tony Wilson), Paddy Considine (Rob Gretton), Danny Cunningham (Shaun Ryder), Paul Popplewell (Paul Ryder), Shirley Henderson (Lindsay), Lennie James (Alan Erasmus), Sean Harris (Ian Curtis), Peter Kay (Don Tonay), Conrad Murray (Bailey Brother) 117 mins, DV (16:9) R16 violence, offensive language, drug use, sex scenes Queenstown Film Society |
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