Stephen Frear's England

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Can all we need to know about the mother country be gleaned from this man's work?

http://www.movingimage.us/site/calendar/index.html

How is Dirty Pretty Things? Strike one against it: Amelie is in it.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 4 August 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

She's terrific. The movie is terrific. I'm glad you started this thread, but I don't know what to say other than that I loved it.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 4 August 2003 03:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I want to see it and haven't yet, but Stephen Frears is one of my favorite working directors. He reminds me of Howard Hawks a little -- he's more lefty-intellectual than Hawks, but he has a similar populist versatility, he can do noir and comedy and romance. He's great on relationships (friendships as well as romances), especially their painful edges -- his movies are full of people who care about each other but do horrible things to each other anyway (Terence Stamp and Tim Roth in The Hit, Glenn Close and John Malkovich in Dangerous Liaisons, Anjelica Huston and John Cusack in The Grifters, Gary Oldman and Alred Molina in Prick Up Your Ears. But there's always sympathy -- unlike, say, Neil LaBute, Frears doesn't judge his characters. He seems interested in the world and how people relate to each other within it.

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Monday, 4 August 2003 05:06 (twenty-two years ago)

What is that link supposed to be to?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 4 August 2003 05:11 (twenty-two years ago)

The American Museum of the Moving Image Frears festival. Here's what's playing.

GUMSHOE 1971
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 1985
BLOODY KIDS 1979
SAMMY AND ROSIE GET LAID 1987
PRICK UP YOUR EARS 1987
DIRTY PRETTY THINGS 2002

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 4 August 2003 05:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Sammy and Rosie is one of the most unintentionally hilarious films I've ever seen.

― Tag (Tag), Monday, 4 August 2003 10:03 (twenty-two years ago)

way back in college
had great sex during tape of
"Sammy and Rosie"

don't remember much
about that movie at all
Roland Gift perhaps?

― Haikunym, Monday, 4 August 2003 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

blimey - only just noticed this thread after mentioning his "Song of Experience" (probably a minor work in the end, but I wuv it) in the Yorkshire thread.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

oh now I remember - Frears was the one who did this awesome documentary essay on British cinema shown on Channel 4 about 1995; loving, critical, personal, erratic, near-genius. I warmed to him no end when I saw that. that's when C4 was still "proper C4" of course ...

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 01:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I just watched Prick Up Your Ears, very interesting study of the devestating relationship between Joe Orton & Kenneth Halliwell, based on the book of the same title by John Lahr.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 8 August 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

she's terrific. the movie is terrific.

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

she's okay. the movie is okay.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The lead guy (why doesn't he get more work?! he was so good) and the hooker are better. The movie is good.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

BLOODY KIDS 1979

= really good

why doesn't he get more work?!

because he's african?

― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

ooooooh

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

He is great though. Does he still teach at the National Film School?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

he's good, but i prefer powell and pressburger's england

― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

tatou is excellent, but she's dwarfed by ejiofor's performance. the film is way better than okay, adam. don't be a grinch!

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought her performance was just passable. she was miscast.

― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

although obviously her casting helped the movie get funding, so there you go

― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I also think part of the point was to cast her as something besides Amelie. She's a strong actress.

― Tonight at ten (kenan), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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