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- R.I.P. Tony Wilson
- Great concept - interesting contrast of Londinium and Mamchester, as Tony might've said ;)
- Huge entertainment!
- Good if you are familiar with the music.
- Thoroughly Entertaining
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24 Hour Party People
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Steve Coogan ,
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Nigel Pivaro ,
Lennie James , and
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ASIN: B00007BK2N
Release Date: 2003-01-21 |
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An ingenious docudrama on the Manchester music scene of the 1980s and '90s. 24 Hour Party People traces the rise and fall of bands like Joy Division, New Order, and Happy Mondays--bands whose success in the U.S. was limited, but whose impact in Europe (and England in particular) was phenomenal. It all centers around the record label that spawned these bands, Factory Records, and its impresario Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan), a man both ludicrous in his self-absorption and brilliant in his willingness to go out on a limb for bands he likes. Coogan, a British comic, gives a remarkable and deeply funny performance that manages to be simultaneously sincere and ironic. The movie communicates what was great about this time without any false majesty--the squalor and disasters are as crucial to this portrait as the wild successes. The soundtrack, of course, is superb. --Bret Fetzer
Description
"Magnificent" (The New York Times), "amazing" (Los Angeles Times) and "a blast" (Rolling Stone), this true story of the raucous anti-establishment explosion that revolutionized the music industry is "miraculous one of the smartest, liveliest, most engaging and involving works you're likely to see this year" (Premiere)! Blown away by an unknown local band called the Sex Pistols, TV personality Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan) is inspired to invent a uniquely anarchic record label. Soon he's promoting everyone from New Order to Happy Mondays on his newly formed Factory Records and partying like a rock star. From Tony's speedy rise to Factory's hedonistic fall, this "wonderful party of a movie stamps on a smiley face that will stay with you for hours" (New York Post)!
Customer Reviews:
R.I.P. Tony Wilson.......2007-08-15
First off R.I.P. Tony Wilson (he died 8-11-07)... I just can not put into words how great this movie is. The dark portrayal of Ian Curtis (look out for 'Closer' a movie about him in the US Oct 10-07) to the goofy druggers Happy Mondays, this is like 2 movies for the price of one. My favorite scene maybe in cinema history is when the actor Wilson is narrating a scene that we are watching of Vini Reilly (Duruti Column) walking out of a storage room . A non-sensible unrelating 'cameo' to the movie's plot at first, but the narrator actor Wilson says this scene didn't make the final cut!!!?? HA! Brilliant, sorry but it did make the final cut because it was just shown.
I recommend watching this with the actual Tony Wilson commentary on, wow the loads of info that pours through thy speakers.. Beyond five stars and thanks to the real Tony Wilson for enriching my life with art and music both sincere and beautiful. And thanks to the makers of this movie for explaining to me the man behind my fond memories growing up on Factory music. I just saw the art and heard the music now years later I see the story
Great concept - interesting contrast of Londinium and Mamchester, as Tony might've said ;).......2007-05-28
It was a fine idea to cover the period from the punks to rave thru the looking glass of Tony Wilson and the Hacienda.
It's a shame the bands themselves took such a back seat to the personality of Wilson, the narrator. The most colorful and interesting moment in his narrative is made-up (as the film itself confesses) and the wider musical impact of the bands is down played.
With the unremitting grimness of Manchester, the world's first industrial city and despite, as Wilson points out, Rolls Royce, the first modern computer and the bouncing bomb (he could've added splitting the atom too) the major achievement was that the film was made at all.
As the Episode with London records in the movie underlines, the cultural industry is centered on London and is loathe to recognise anything beyond that. Musicians with success typically gravitate to London and with further success to NYC or LA. Manchester's musicians stayed at home.
Perhaps this is a reflection of their working class origins, rather a contrast to the typical London star, a product of elite schools and universities. Michael Jagger, an economist by training, was defended in his early career by no less than the Archbishop of Canterbury. His band is one of the most succesful corporations in the UK. David Bowie's catalog is a Wall Street Bond offering...
Manchester's story is not the usual rags to riches to rags, rather rags to rags to rags. Perhaps like Manchester's technology, appropriated to Lowell , Massachussets, driving the American Industrial Revolution, the real success is in world influence and not in dollars and cents, so much the focus of the London scene, as epitomized by the Spice Girls and their ilk.
Huge entertainment!.......2007-01-11
A mandatory item for New Order fans like me.
Nothing else is necessary to be said. Just watch it!
Good if you are familiar with the music........2005-12-23
This film is very good if you are into Factory as a whole. If you are watching it just for one band, don't. You will find yourself disappointed.
Thoroughly Entertaining.......2005-11-09
This is a really good movie with an excellent excellent screenplay. The movie begins with the birth of punk, when a small roomful of people were fortunate enough to catch the Sex Pistols when they first came out, changing the course of music, and ends with the death of acid. As Tony Wilson puts it in the film, it is the "story of Manchester," that begins when a group of young and idealistic local boys decide to screw London and its record companies and start producing their own records out of Manchester, and boy, has music history benefited from this decision. It's interesting to note that as these young lads on the forefront of the music scene in Manchester began to age, they become less idealistic as they were in their youth, and more acknowledging of reality and its limits. My only complaint is that I wish the movie could have had more on Joy Division and New Order, than on the Happy Mondays. Why did Tony Wilson ever sign a band that came in last place in Manchester's Battle of the Bands??? The casting for this movie is outstanding, as well.
Two big thumbs up.
P.S. I don't know why they used the cover that they did for the DVD. It really has nothing to do with the film.
Average customer rating:
- R.I.P. Tony Wilson
- Great concept - interesting contrast of Londinium and Mamchester, as Tony might've said ;)
- Huge entertainment!
- Good if you are familiar with the music.
- Thoroughly Entertaining
|
24 Hour Party People (Dol)
Starring:
Steve Coogan ,
John Thomson ,
Nigel Pivaro ,
Lennie James , and
Shirley Henderson
Director:
Michael Winterbottom
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-
It's All Gone Pete Tong
-
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ASIN: B00007ELKO
Release Date: 2003-01-21 |
Amazon.com
An ingenious docudrama on the Manchester music scene of the 1980s and '90s. 24 Hour Party People traces the rise and fall of bands like Joy Division, New Order, and Happy Mondays--bands whose success in the U.S. was limited, but whose impact in Europe (and England in particular) was phenomenal. It all centers around the record label that spawned these bands, Factory Records, and its impresario Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan), a man both ludicrous in his self-absorption and brilliant in his willingness to go out on a limb for bands he likes. Coogan, a British comic, gives a remarkable and deeply funny performance that manages to be simultaneously sincere and ironic. The movie communicates what was great about this time without any false majesty--the squalor and disasters are as crucial to this portrait as the wild successes. The soundtrack, of course, is superb. --Bret Fetzer
Description
"Magnificent" (The New York Times), "amazing" (Los Angeles Times) and "a blast" (Rolling Stone), this true story of the raucous anti-establishment explosion that revolutionized the music industry is "miraculous one of the smartest, liveliest, most engaging and involving works you're likely to see this year" (Premiere)! Blown away by an unknown local band called the Sex Pistols, TV personality Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan) is inspired to invent a uniquely anarchic record label. Soon he's promoting everyone from New Order to Happy Mondays on his newly formed Factory Records and partying like a rock star. From Tony's speedy rise to Factory's hedonistic fall, this "wonderful party of a movie stamps on a smiley face that will stay with you for hours" (New York Post)!
Customer Reviews:
R.I.P. Tony Wilson.......2007-08-15
First off R.I.P. Tony Wilson (he died 8-11-07)... I just can not put into words how great this movie is. The dark portrayal of Ian Curtis (look out for 'Closer' a movie about him in the US Oct 10-07) to the goofy druggers Happy Mondays, this is like 2 movies for the price of one. My favorite scene maybe in cinema history is when the actor Wilson is narrating a scene that we are watching of Vini Reilly (Duruti Column) walking out of a storage room . A non-sensible unrelating 'cameo' to the movie's plot at first, but the narrator actor Wilson says this scene didn't make the final cut!!!?? HA! Brilliant, sorry but it did make the final cut because it was just shown.
I recommend watching this with the actual Tony Wilson commentary on, wow the loads of info that pours through thy speakers.. Beyond five stars and thanks to the real Tony Wilson for enriching my life with art and music both sincere and beautiful. And thanks to the makers of this movie for explaining to me the man behind my fond memories growing up on Factory music. I just saw the art and heard the music now years later I see the story
Great concept - interesting contrast of Londinium and Mamchester, as Tony might've said ;).......2007-05-28
It was a fine idea to cover the period from the punks to rave thru the looking glass of Tony Wilson and the Hacienda.
It's a shame the bands themselves took such a back seat to the personality of Wilson, the narrator. The most colorful and interesting moment in his narrative is made-up (as the film itself confesses) and the wider musical impact of the bands is down played.
With the unremitting grimness of Manchester, the world's first industrial city and despite, as Wilson points out, Rolls Royce, the first modern computer and the bouncing bomb (he could've added splitting the atom too) the major achievement was that the film was made at all.
As the Episode with London records in the movie underlines, the cultural industry is centered on London and is loathe to recognise anything beyond that. Musicians with success typically gravitate to London and with further success to NYC or LA. Manchester's musicians stayed at home.
Perhaps this is a reflection of their working class origins, rather a contrast to the typical London star, a product of elite schools and universities. Michael Jagger, an economist by training, was defended in his early career by no less than the Archbishop of Canterbury. His band is one of the most succesful corporations in the UK. David Bowie's catalog is a Wall Street Bond offering...
Manchester's story is not the usual rags to riches to rags, rather rags to rags to rags. Perhaps like Manchester's technology, appropriated to Lowell , Massachussets, driving the American Industrial Revolution, the real success is in world influence and not in dollars and cents, so much the focus of the London scene, as epitomized by the Spice Girls and their ilk.
Huge entertainment!.......2007-01-11
A mandatory item for New Order fans like me.
Nothing else is necessary to be said. Just watch it!
Good if you are familiar with the music........2005-12-23
This film is very good if you are into Factory as a whole. If you are watching it just for one band, don't. You will find yourself disappointed.
Thoroughly Entertaining.......2005-11-09
This is a really good movie with an excellent excellent screenplay. The movie begins with the birth of punk, when a small roomful of people were fortunate enough to catch the Sex Pistols when they first came out, changing the course of music, and ends with the death of acid. As Tony Wilson puts it in the film, it is the "story of Manchester," that begins when a group of young and idealistic local boys decide to screw London and its record companies and start producing their own records out of Manchester, and boy, has music history benefited from this decision. It's interesting to note that as these young lads on the forefront of the music scene in Manchester began to age, they become less idealistic as they were in their youth, and more acknowledging of reality and its limits. My only complaint is that I wish the movie could have had more on Joy Division and New Order, than on the Happy Mondays. Why did Tony Wilson ever sign a band that came in last place in Manchester's Battle of the Bands??? The casting for this movie is outstanding, as well.
Two big thumbs up.
P.S. I don't know why they used the cover that they did for the DVD. It really has nothing to do with the film.
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Average customer rating:
- R.I.P. Tony Wilson
- Great concept - interesting contrast of Londinium and Mamchester, as Tony might've said ;)
- Huge entertainment!
- Good if you are familiar with the music.
- Thoroughly Entertaining
|
24 Hour Party People [Region 2]
Starring:
Steve Coogan ,
John Thomson ,
Nigel Pivaro ,
Lennie James , and
Shirley Henderson
Director:
Michael Winterbottom
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B0000DK4RL |
Amazon.com
An ingenious docudrama on the Manchester music scene of the 1980s and '90s. 24 Hour Party People traces the rise and fall of bands like Joy Division, New Order, and Happy Mondays--bands whose success in the U.S. was limited, but whose impact in Europe (and England in particular) was phenomenal. It all centers around the record label that spawned these bands, Factory Records, and its impresario Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan), a man both ludicrous in his self-absorption and brilliant in his willingness to go out on a limb for bands he likes. Coogan, a British comic, gives a remarkable and deeply funny performance that manages to be simultaneously sincere and ironic. The movie communicates what was great about this time without any false majesty--the squalor and disasters are as crucial to this portrait as the wild successes. The soundtrack, of course, is superb. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews:
R.I.P. Tony Wilson.......2007-08-15
First off R.I.P. Tony Wilson (he died 8-11-07)... I just can not put into words how great this movie is. The dark portrayal of Ian Curtis (look out for 'Closer' a movie about him in the US Oct 10-07) to the goofy druggers Happy Mondays, this is like 2 movies for the price of one. My favorite scene maybe in cinema history is when the actor Wilson is narrating a scene that we are watching of Vini Reilly (Duruti Column) walking out of a storage room . A non-sensible unrelating 'cameo' to the movie's plot at first, but the narrator actor Wilson says this scene didn't make the final cut!!!?? HA! Brilliant, sorry but it did make the final cut because it was just shown.
I recommend watching this with the actual Tony Wilson commentary on, wow the loads of info that pours through thy speakers.. Beyond five stars and thanks to the real Tony Wilson for enriching my life with art and music both sincere and beautiful. And thanks to the makers of this movie for explaining to me the man behind my fond memories growing up on Factory music. I just saw the art and heard the music now years later I see the story
Great concept - interesting contrast of Londinium and Mamchester, as Tony might've said ;).......2007-05-28
It was a fine idea to cover the period from the punks to rave thru the looking glass of Tony Wilson and the Hacienda.
It's a shame the bands themselves took such a back seat to the personality of Wilson, the narrator. The most colorful and interesting moment in his narrative is made-up (as the film itself confesses) and the wider musical impact of the bands is down played.
With the unremitting grimness of Manchester, the world's first industrial city and despite, as Wilson points out, Rolls Royce, the first modern computer and the bouncing bomb (he could've added splitting the atom too) the major achievement was that the film was made at all.
As the Episode with London records in the movie underlines, the cultural industry is centered on London and is loathe to recognise anything beyond that. Musicians with success typically gravitate to London and with further success to NYC or LA. Manchester's musicians stayed at home.
Perhaps this is a reflection of their working class origins, rather a contrast to the typical London star, a product of elite schools and universities. Michael Jagger, an economist by training, was defended in his early career by no less than the Archbishop of Canterbury. His band is one of the most succesful corporations in the UK. David Bowie's catalog is a Wall Street Bond offering...
Manchester's story is not the usual rags to riches to rags, rather rags to rags to rags. Perhaps like Manchester's technology, appropriated to Lowell , Massachussets, driving the American Industrial Revolution, the real success is in world influence and not in dollars and cents, so much the focus of the London scene, as epitomized by the Spice Girls and their ilk.
Huge entertainment!.......2007-01-11
A mandatory item for New Order fans like me.
Nothing else is necessary to be said. Just watch it!
Good if you are familiar with the music........2005-12-23
This film is very good if you are into Factory as a whole. If you are watching it just for one band, don't. You will find yourself disappointed.
Thoroughly Entertaining.......2005-11-09
This is a really good movie with an excellent excellent screenplay. The movie begins with the birth of punk, when a small roomful of people were fortunate enough to catch the Sex Pistols when they first came out, changing the course of music, and ends with the death of acid. As Tony Wilson puts it in the film, it is the "story of Manchester," that begins when a group of young and idealistic local boys decide to screw London and its record companies and start producing their own records out of Manchester, and boy, has music history benefited from this decision. It's interesting to note that as these young lads on the forefront of the music scene in Manchester began to age, they become less idealistic as they were in their youth, and more acknowledging of reality and its limits. My only complaint is that I wish the movie could have had more on Joy Division and New Order, than on the Happy Mondays. Why did Tony Wilson ever sign a band that came in last place in Manchester's Battle of the Bands??? The casting for this movie is outstanding, as well.
Two big thumbs up.
P.S. I don't know why they used the cover that they did for the DVD. It really has nothing to do with the film.
Average customer rating:
- R.I.P. Tony Wilson
- Great concept - interesting contrast of Londinium and Mamchester, as Tony might've said ;)
- Huge entertainment!
- Good if you are familiar with the music.
- Thoroughly Entertaining
|
24 Hour Party People [Region 2]
Starring:
Steve Coogan ,
John Thomson ,
Nigel Pivaro ,
Lennie James , and
Shirley Henderson
Director:
Michael Winterbottom
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
General
| Comedy
| Genres
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| Video
Cook, Ron
| ( C )
| Actors & Actresses
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
Cunningham, Danny
| ( C )
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Serkis, Andy
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Simm, John
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Human Traffic
-
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-
Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis & Joy Division
-
It's All Gone Pete Tong
-
Tristram Shandy - A Cock and Bull Story
ASIN: B000063W1O |
Amazon.com
An ingenious docudrama on the Manchester music scene of the 1980s and '90s. 24 Hour Party People traces the rise and fall of bands like Joy Division, New Order, and Happy Mondays--bands whose success in the U.S. was limited, but whose impact in Europe (and England in particular) was phenomenal. It all centers around the record label that spawned these bands, Factory Records, and its impresario Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan), a man both ludicrous in his self-absorption and brilliant in his willingness to go out on a limb for bands he likes. Coogan, a British comic, gives a remarkable and deeply funny performance that manages to be simultaneously sincere and ironic. The movie communicates what was great about this time without any false majesty--the squalor and disasters are as crucial to this portrait as the wild successes. The soundtrack, of course, is superb. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews:
R.I.P. Tony Wilson.......2007-08-15
First off R.I.P. Tony Wilson (he died 8-11-07)... I just can not put into words how great this movie is. The dark portrayal of Ian Curtis (look out for 'Closer' a movie about him in the US Oct 10-07) to the goofy druggers Happy Mondays, this is like 2 movies for the price of one. My favorite scene maybe in cinema history is when the actor Wilson is narrating a scene that we are watching of Vini Reilly (Duruti Column) walking out of a storage room . A non-sensible unrelating 'cameo' to the movie's plot at first, but the narrator actor Wilson says this scene didn't make the final cut!!!?? HA! Brilliant, sorry but it did make the final cut because it was just shown.
I recommend watching this with the actual Tony Wilson commentary on, wow the loads of info that pours through thy speakers.. Beyond five stars and thanks to the real Tony Wilson for enriching my life with art and music both sincere and beautiful. And thanks to the makers of this movie for explaining to me the man behind my fond memories growing up on Factory music. I just saw the art and heard the music now years later I see the story
Great concept - interesting contrast of Londinium and Mamchester, as Tony might've said ;).......2007-05-28
It was a fine idea to cover the period from the punks to rave thru the looking glass of Tony Wilson and the Hacienda.
It's a shame the bands themselves took such a back seat to the personality of Wilson, the narrator. The most colorful and interesting moment in his narrative is made-up (as the film itself confesses) and the wider musical impact of the bands is down played.
With the unremitting grimness of Manchester, the world's first industrial city and despite, as Wilson points out, Rolls Royce, the first modern computer and the bouncing bomb (he could've added splitting the atom too) the major achievement was that the film was made at all.
As the Episode with London records in the movie underlines, the cultural industry is centered on London and is loathe to recognise anything beyond that. Musicians with success typically gravitate to London and with further success to NYC or LA. Manchester's musicians stayed at home.
Perhaps this is a reflection of their working class origins, rather a contrast to the typical London star, a product of elite schools and universities. Michael Jagger, an economist by training, was defended in his early career by no less than the Archbishop of Canterbury. His band is one of the most succesful corporations in the UK. David Bowie's catalog is a Wall Street Bond offering...
Manchester's story is not the usual rags to riches to rags, rather rags to rags to rags. Perhaps like Manchester's technology, appropriated to Lowell , Massachussets, driving the American Industrial Revolution, the real success is in world influence and not in dollars and cents, so much the focus of the London scene, as epitomized by the Spice Girls and their ilk.
Huge entertainment!.......2007-01-11
A mandatory item for New Order fans like me.
Nothing else is necessary to be said. Just watch it!
Good if you are familiar with the music........2005-12-23
This film is very good if you are into Factory as a whole. If you are watching it just for one band, don't. You will find yourself disappointed.
Thoroughly Entertaining.......2005-11-09
This is a really good movie with an excellent excellent screenplay. The movie begins with the birth of punk, when a small roomful of people were fortunate enough to catch the Sex Pistols when they first came out, changing the course of music, and ends with the death of acid. As Tony Wilson puts it in the film, it is the "story of Manchester," that begins when a group of young and idealistic local boys decide to screw London and its record companies and start producing their own records out of Manchester, and boy, has music history benefited from this decision. It's interesting to note that as these young lads on the forefront of the music scene in Manchester began to age, they become less idealistic as they were in their youth, and more acknowledging of reality and its limits. My only complaint is that I wish the movie could have had more on Joy Division and New Order, than on the Happy Mondays. Why did Tony Wilson ever sign a band that came in last place in Manchester's Battle of the Bands??? The casting for this movie is outstanding, as well.
Two big thumbs up.
P.S. I don't know why they used the cover that they did for the DVD. It really has nothing to do with the film.
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