Made in Britain / Prick Up Your Ears / Meantime

Starring: Alfred Molina, Gary Oldman Director: Alan Clarke, Mike Leigh, Stephen Frears Original UK Premiere: 1984 Dvd Release: 12th November, 2001 Number Of Discs: 3 Format: Box set, PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Made in Britain is a state-of-the-nation style short film directed by Alan Clarke & written by David Leland. It was originally broadcast on ITV as part of a series of films called Tales out of School. As with many Alan Clarke films the director attempts to depict English working-class life realisticially withouth moralizing or complex plots. The films use of strong language, violence, racist idiology & anti-establishment feeling makes it a thought-provoking, powerful drama. Cinematographer Chris Menges was responsible for the atmosphere. Dialogue from the film was sampled heavily on Skinnyman s 2004 album Council Estate of Mind.

Alfred Molina is a London -born actor of Spanish - Italian parentage. Molina has made an impact as a film, television & stage actor. He made his film debut in the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, but his big break came with Letter to Brezhnev in 1985, which he followed up with a starring role in Prick Up Your Ears in 1987, playing Joe Orton s lover. Other films of his include Species, Boogie Nights, Dudley Do-Right, Magnolia, Chocolat & Enchanted April. He stars in the 2004 Spider-Man sequel, Spider-Man 2, as the villain Doctor Octopus. Molina is married to actress Jill Gascoine. Posters Of Steamboy

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Leonard Gary Oldman is a British actor. Gary Oldman was born in London, England. When he was older, he won a scholarship to Britain s Rose Bruford Drama College, where he received a BA in Theatre Arts in 1979. He later studied with the Greenwich Young Peoples Theatre & went on to appear in a number of plays throughout the early 80s, including The Popes Wedding, for which he received Time Out s Fringe Award for Best Newcomer of 1985 - 1986 & the British Theatre Association s Drama Magazine Award as Best Actor of 1985. Oldman is 1,78m in height. He first appeared on the screen in the film Remembrance in 1982, going on the win his first starring role in Sid & Nancy, in which he played the rocker Sid Vicious. He has played a variety of characters including Dracula, Ludwig van Beethoven, Lee Harvey Oswald, Pontius Pilate & the Devil. Posters Of Gary Oldman

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Alan Clarke was a film director, producer & writer, born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England. Much of Clarkes output was for television rather than cinema & featured from 1969 onwards in The Wednesday Play & Play for Today. His subject matter tended towards social realism, especially with respect to deprived or oppressed communities. A number of his works achieved notoriety & widespread criticism from the more reactionary end of the media spectrum; such as Scum, dealing with the subject of Borstals - youth prisons. Posters Of The Firm

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Mike Leigh is an award winning British film director. He has made a number of films, usually choosing down to earth subjects & subject matter. His films are usually set in London. In his cinematographic career, which he pursued quite late in his life, he has won several prizes in some of the major European film festivals. in 1993 for the best director with Naked & in 1996 for the best film with Secrets & Lies. He won the Leone dOro for the best film at the International Venice Film Festival in 2004 with Vera Drake. Posters Of All Or Nothing

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Stephen Frears is a British film director. His initial career was in television, where he contributed to several high-profile series such as the BBC s Play for Today strand. His first film was the 1972 Gumshoe It was his production of the one-off drama My Beautiful Laundrette for Channel 4 in 1985 that led to his successful film career when the production was released theatrically to cinemas, to great acclaim. Following this Frears directed another successful British film, the Joe Orton biopic Prick Up Your Ears in 1987 & the following year made his Hollywood debut with Dangerous Liaisons. He has since directed a number of successful films in both Britain & America, including The Hi-Lo Country, High Fidelity & Dirty Pretty Things. In recent years he has also occasionally returned to directing for television, perhaps most notably helming The Deal, a dramatised account of the alleged deal between Tony Blair & Gordon Brown to decide which of them should become leader of the Labour Party in 1994, for Channel 4 in 2003. Posters Of Dirty Pretty Things

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