I WANT YOU (1999)

Directed By: Michael Winterbottom 
Written By: Eoin McNamee 
Cinematography By: Slawomir Idziak 
Editor: Trevor Waite 


Cast: Rachel Weisz, Alessandro Nivola, Labina Mitevska, Luka Petrusic, Phylidia Law 



Helen is a young woman running a hairdressing salon; Bob is her boyfriend and local radio DJ; Honda is a mute kid who's secretly taping people's conversation and Smokey is Honda's sister who sings at local bar. New guy in town is the mysterious Martin, who shares some dark history with Helen and observes her from afar at first. Honda falls in love with Helen and starts taping her conversations with Bob, and that leads to reactivation of the Helen-Martin relationship

9 SONGS (2004) (ONE MORE CHANCE)

Written & Directed By: Michael Winterbotom 
Cinematography By: Marcel Zyskind 
Editor: Michael Winterbottom & Mat Whitecross 

Cast: Kieran O’Brien, Margo Stilley

 ONE MORE CHANCE - is a film that has great premise or great ideas and coulD have been great or a classic bit somehow ruined it's promise and just went down a bad road.

Eric's "Films I Love (That Don't Get Enough Love)" Part I

 

24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE (dir. Michael Winterbottom, 2002)

I decided to engage myself in a bit of an experiment. To write some reviews on films I love that I don't think get discussed enough. While objectively I couldn't say these are some of the greatest movies ever made (nor be on my TEN BEST lists), these are flicks I can watch again and again and again. And always find something new I adore about them.

THE TRIP (2011)

Directed By: Michael Winterbottom
Cinematography By: Ben Smithard
Editor: Dan Coles & Sion Penny

Cast: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Margo Stilley