Michael Winterbottom

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Cock and bull?

Interview: Not if it’s British actor Steve Coogan
Americans will finally know who Steve Coogan is.
By PETER KEOUGH | August 11, 2008

Sticking to the facts in a post-9/111 world, Michael Winterbottom and Paul Greengrass lead a new breed of filmmaker
We’ll get used to it, I suppose, this new category of moviegoing distress. Sooner or later, we get used to everything.
By JAMES PARKER | June 20, 2007

Terror incognita

Winterbottom, Jolie lose Heart
No one will know what Danny Pearl felt as he was kidnapped, held prisoner, and beheaded by jihadist fanatics.
By PETER KEOUGH | June 20, 2007

The girls of summer

The season for blockbusters, sequels, and . . . great roles for women?
It’s summer, so no one’s surprised at the onslaught of sequels, adaptations, or even movies based on toys. But films with Oscar-caliber women’s roles?
By PETER KEOUGH | May 18, 2007

Doom, gloom and zoom

A year in film
Given the past year’s headlines, it can’t come as a surprise that some of the best films of 2006 had an edge of darkness to them.
By PETER KEOUGH | January 16, 2007

Punked out

The lost generation of American Hardcore
Fast and semi-coherent, like the music it documents, Paul Rachman’s American Hardcore , from the book by Steven Blush, uses an efficient equation: band members talking + flyer graphics + grainy clips from live shows. Watch the trailer for American Hardcore (QuickTime)
By A.S. HAMRAH | October 13, 2006

Fact or fiction?

Mat Whitecross explains
It’s a morbid thought, to be sure, but could the recent suicide of three prisoners at the notorious US detention center have come at a better time for the release of The Road to Guantánamo ? Extraordinary rendition: The Road to Guantánamo can’t handle the truth. By Peter Keough.
By PETER KEOUGH | June 23, 2006

The Tipton Three today

End of the Road ?
You’d think that after escaping the black hole of US detention camps at Guantánamo, life would be pretty much downhill.
By PETER KEOUGH | June 21, 2006

Extraordinary rendition

The Road to Guantánamo can’t handle the truth
Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, directors of the flawed but inflammatory The Road to Guantánamo , go about telling the truth of injustice in a roundabout way. Fact or fiction? Mat Whitecross explains . By Peter Keough
By PETER KEOUGH | June 21, 2006

No fooling

Gerry’s Magnificent Seven; Lie with Me
Congratulations, Robert Altman.
By GERALD PEARY | March 21, 2006

Great exasperations

Michael Winterbottom adapts Tristram Shandy
Winterbottom's take on Laurence Sterne’s monumental ode to digression itself begins with a digression about actor Rob Brydon’s teeth.
By PETER KEOUGH | February 14, 2006

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