Shane Meadows

British Directors: Shane Meadows (1973 -)

Introduction  

Along with many other British director entries this entry is 'work in progress' nevertheless it will provide a basic signposting to other available resources on the web in the first instance until I'm able to make a fuller evaluation. 

There are some useful links in the webliography including an extract at the BBC Film Network site.  

Filmography

2008: Somers Town

2006: This Is England

2004: Dead Man's Shoes

2002: Once Upon a Time in the Midlands

1999: A Room for Romeo Brass

1997: TwentyFourSeven

1996: Smalltime 

Film availability: These DVDs are available

Webliography 

BBC Film Network interview with Shane Meadows. (Viewable extract available).  

Screenonline Biography

BFI: Twenty Four Seven

Screenonline: Smalltime (Debut Feature)

Guardian interview with Shane Meadows 

Shane Meadows on Guardian arts blog

Time Out interview Shane Meadows 

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Andrea Arnold

Andrea Arnold (1961- )

Andrea Arnold. (Photo by Sara Lee) 

Introduction

Along with many other British director entries this entry is 'work in progress' nevertheless it will provide a basic signposting to other available resources on the web in the first instance until I'm able to make a fuller evaluation.

Red Road

Funding Regime: for the purpose of studying Contemporary British Cinema as most of them are small budget compared to Hollywood films it is important to be aware of the funding sources. Raising funds is only one hurdle which is linked to issues of distribution and exhibition. The reality is that it is very hard to see British films in British cinemas. (See the entry on The Irresistable Rise of the Multiplex for a partial explanation of this problem. Also see entry The Role of TV in the British Film Industry).  

Co-funded by the UK Film Council's New Cinema and Development funds, BBC Films, the Glasgow Film Office and Scottish Screen, the film was produced by Glasgow-based Sigma Films in collaboration with Lars Von Trier's Zentropa Films.

Filmography

Full Feature Films

Red Road (2006)

Shorts

Wasp ( 2003)

Dog (2001) 

Webliography 

British Council Brit Films entry on Andrea Arnold

Guardian Interview with Andrea Arnold

Report from Time Out on a visit to the set of Red Road 

Time Out feature on Red Road

BBC Press Office report on  Prix du Jury at Cannes for Red Road

BIFA Award for Red Road

Wikipedia entry on Andrea Arnold 

Red Road and the Surveillance Society

Verve Pictures. Full Production notes downloadable as a PDF.

Greencine interview with Andrea Arnold at Toronto Film Festival

New Statesman Review of Red Road 

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Lynne Ramsay

Lynne Ramsay (1969-)

Introduction

Along with many other British director entries this entry is 'work in progress' nevertheless it will provide a basic signposting to other available resources on the web in the first instance until I'm able to make a fuller evaluation.

Filmography

Morven Callar (2002)

Ratcatcher (1999)

Kill the Day (1997)

Webliography

Screenonline Biography of Lynne Ramsay

Guardian Interview with Lynne Ramsay

Guardian on Ramsay's development  

Another Guardian Article on Ramsay

Ramsay at Cannes

Ramsay interviewed at Cannes

British Short Films  

BFI NEws Ratcather wins Sutherland Trophy

Magical Urbanism:Walter Benjamin and Utopian Realism in the film Ratcatcher

Films Available: 

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