Projects matching: Michael Winterbottom

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Two Brit police officers, Thomas Wilkin and Geoffrey Morton, hunt for charismatic poet and Zionist freedom fighter Avraham Stern in 1948 in the lead-up to the partition of Palestine.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2023 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023

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ELEVEN DAYS IN MAY is a portrait to remember the children killed in Gaza last year during the bombings in May 2021.

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Following from THE TRIP, THE TRIP TO ITALY and THE TRIP TO SPAIN, and back for their fourth cinematic travelogue, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon cinematic travelogue, Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan head out together on a Greek excursion inspired by Homer’s 'The Odyssey' -and, naturally, fuelled by sharp-witted banter and the best Werner Herzog impressions imaginable.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2020 - Spotlight Narrative - World premiere

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GREED tells the story of self-made British billionaire Sir Richard McCreadie (Steve Coogan), whose retail empire is in crisis. For 30 years he has ruled the world of retail fashion – bringing the high street to the catwalk and the catwalk to the high street – but after a damaging public inquiry, his image is tarnished. To save his reputation, he decides to bounce back with a highly publicised and extravagant party celebrating his 60th birthday on the Greek island of Mykonos. A satire on the grotesque inequality of wealth in the fashion industry, the film sees McCreadie’s rise and fall through the eyes of his biographer, Nick (David Mitchell).
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Special Presentations - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Headline Gala - European premiere

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A mysterious young British man (Dev Patel) journeys across Pakistan and India.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special Presentations - World premiere

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Following from 'The Trip' and 'The Trip to Italy', this third instalment of the road trip series sees Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon reunite with director Michael Winterbottom, taking their wit and appetites on a tour through picturesque Spain’s finest fine dining. Coogan and Brydon trade celebrity impressions and witty banter over paella and gazpacho, their comic observations on fame and friendship as dry as the finest Spanish wine.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2017 - Spotlight Narrative - World premiere

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The North London band, Wolf Alice (who take their collective name from an Angela Carter story) have had a rise to prominence that might have been bends-inducing were it not for their tightness as a group.
In Summer of 2015, the deliciously dark, hook-and-riff-filled sound of their debut album, My Love is Cool inspired NME magazine to crown it, “the debut of the decade”.
Director Michael Winterbottom joins the band on the road, capturing sixteen different gigs and daily life backstage. The resulting tour film, which records the tour from the point of view of a new member of their crew, is a refreshingly unusual one with unexpected twists; revealing the relentless, sometimes unglamorous graft of playing loud, hot, physical music, night after night. But the film also mesmerises, offering a structure that reveals more, at every stop on the road, of the nuanced musicality of the full band, and the bewitching talent and charisma of front woman, Ellie Rowsell.
Official Selection Berlinale 2017 - Generation 14plus

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A look at the growing disparity between different economic classes. Comedian, provocateur and aspiring revolutionary Russell Brand leads a polemical documentary about the financial crisis from international banking centres in London and New York. Combining documentary style, archive footage and comedy routines to explore how the crisis has affected the working and lower classes while the famed “one percent” has benefited.
Tribeca Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Based on Barbie Latza Nadeau's book, the film follows the story of a troubled filmmaker trying to uncover the truth behind a sensational murder in Italy. Swept up in the media feeding frenzy around the enigmatic lead suspect, he sees that the victim has been forgotten, and realises that his own salvation lies in returning to the daughter he has left behind.
Toronto International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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Two men, six meals in six different places on a road trip around Italy. Liguria, Tuscany, Rome, Amalfi and ending in Capri.

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A biopic of the club and property mogul Paul Raymond who, along with his porn business, amassed a fortune of billions.

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Shot over the course of five years, this documentary-style feature from prolific English filmmaker Michael Winterbottom offers a masterful meditation on the daily travails of a family living apart from their imprisoned patriarch (TIFF 2012).