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Michael Winterbottom. Director: A Mighty Heart. Michael took an English degree at Oxford then trained in film at Bristol and London breaking into television via the cutting room at Thames Television.
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"I've always loved watching road movies. When I was a teenager I would go to the local film club in town and there would be a screening of films from Germany. I loved watching German cinema and the idea of the road movie. I shoot film in a very simple way to tell simple and small stories — and the road movie has a very simple structure. You start h...
"The idea for the whole film, The Wedding Guest, for both Patel's unnamed character and Apte's Samira, the young woman he kidnaps, is the idea of identity. Patel's character is very contained — you don't know anything about him and he doesn't give anything away. He's very static in that way. He stays the same, but he shuffles several fake identitie...
"I'm a big Thomas Hardy fan. I read his novels when I was a teenager and really loved his books. In England there was this sense that he writes about rural, country stories that were therefore seen as being soft. But there's quite a radical social agenda in his writing. "After he wrote Jude the Obscure, he didn't write anymore because the critics h...
"The film is about preconceptions. It's about a British Muslim man who goes to Pakistan. If you saw a synopsis of the film, you could immediately assume that it's about religion or about ideology. I like the idea that by the end of the film, you've gone a long, long way away from that. "The audience is left wondering what type of film and story thi...
Learn about the life and career of British director Michael Winterbottom, who has made films such as Jude, 24 Hour Party People, and The Claim. Find out his influences, awards, trivia, and quotes on IMDb.
- March 29, 1961
Learn about the life and career of Michael Winterbottom, a prolific English filmmaker who has directed seventeen feature films in the past fifteen years. Find out his best known works, awards, and upcoming projects on The Movie Database (TMDB).
Sep 13, 2023 · September 13, 2023 9:03am. 'Shoshana'Courtesy of TIFF. It sometimes seems as if prolific British director Michael Winterbottom has had a go at just about every major type of film apart from light ...
Sep 8, 2023 · Michael Winterbottom’s “Shoshana” takes a different approach, immediately demonstrating its understanding that even the most intellectually committed activists have to consider dubious ...
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Sep 17, 2023 · But now prolific writer-director Michael Winterbottom (“The Trip,” “A Mighty Heart”) uses that complicated era as a backdrop to the compelling historical romance “Shoshana.” A passion ...
