Pel

Too Close (2012)

Actors: Aaron Collins (actor), Greg Colley (director), Leeona Duff (producer), Alice Vignoles-Russell (miscellaneous crew), Julian Callan (writer), Tyrah Duff (actress), Katie Freeney (editor), James Mcnulty (actor),

Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi, Short,

24 Hour Party People (2002)

Actors: Shirley Henderson (actress), Michael Winterbottom (director), Simon Pegg (actor), John Thomson (actor), Iggy Pop (actor), Henry Normal (producer), Steve Coogan (actor), John Lydon (actor), John Simm (actor), Keith Allen (actor), Andy Serkis (actor), Peter Kay (actor), Rob Brydon (actor), Pauline Burt (miscellaneous crew), Michael Winterbottom (editor),

Plot: Manchester 1976: Cambridge educated Tony Wilson, Granada TV presenter, is at a Sex Pistols gig. Totally inspired by this pivotal moment in music history, he and his friends set up a record label, Factory Records, signing first Joy Division (who go on to become New Order) then James and the Happy Mondays, who all become seminal artists of their time. What ensues is a tale of music, sex, drugs, larger-than-life characters, and the birth of one of the most famous dance clubs in the world, The Hacienda - a mecca for clubbers as famous as the likes of Studio 54. Graphically depicting the music and dance heritage of Manchester from the late 70's to the early 90's, this comedy documents the vibrancy that made Mad-chester the place in the world that you would most like to be.

Keywords: 1970s, 1980s, airplane, airport, anarchist, anarchy, animated-credits, anti-establishment, band, band-tour
Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music,
Taglines: The unbelievably true story of one man, one movement, the music and madness that was Manchester.

Quotes:

Tony Wilson: Factory Records are not actually a company. We are an experiment in human nature. You're labouring under the misapprehension that we actually have a deal with, er, with our, our bands. That we have any kind of a contract, er, at all, and I'm afraid we, er, we don't because that's, er, that's the sum total of the paperwork to do with Factory Records, deal with, er, their various bands.

Tony Wilson: I'm a minor player in my own life story.

Tony Wilson: This scene didn't actually make it to the final cut. I'm sure it'll be on the DVD.

Tony Wilson: And tonight something equally epoch-making is taking place. See? They're applauding the DJ. Not the music, not the musician, not the creator, but the medium. This is it. The birth of rave culture. The beatification of the beat. The dance age. This is the moment when even the white man starts dancing. Welcome to Manchester.

Tony Wilson: It was like being on a fantastic fairground ride, centrifugal forces throwing us wider and wider. But it's all right, because there's this brilliant machine at the center that's going to bring us back down to earth. That was Manchester. That is the Hacienda. Now imagine the machine breaks. For a while, it's even better, because you're really flying. but then, you fall, because nobody beats gravity.

Tony Wilson: Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride.

Tony Wilson: Can I get you half a lager?::Rob Gretton: You can get me a pint.

Tony Wilson: I'm being postmodern, before it's fashionable.

Martin Hannett: Well, this is goodbye. I mean, we obviously have nothing in common. I'm a genius, you're all fucking wankers. You'll never see me again. You don't deserve to see me again.

Tony Wilson: You can't threaten me, Martin. You're a big man, but you're out of shape. Although you could sit on me.