Michael Winterbottom

Interviews

Damon Smith

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9781604738407
• eBook ISBN: 9781628469721
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

Prolific British director Michael Winterbottom (b. 1961) might be hard to pin down and even harder to categorize. Over sixteen years, he has created feature films as disparate and stylistically diverse as Welcome to Sarajevo, 24 Hour Party People, In This World, Butterfly Kiss, and The Killer Inside Me. But in this collection, the first English-language volume to gather international profiles and substantive interviews with the Blackburn native, Winterbottom reveals how working with small crews, available light, handheld digital cameras, radio mics, and minuscule budgets allows him fewer constraints than most filmmakers, and the ability to capture the specificity of the locations where he shoots. In Michael Winterbottom: Interviews he emerges as an industrious filmmaker committed to a stripped-down approach whose concern with outsiders and docu-realist authenticity have remained constant throughout his career. Collecting pieces from news periodicals as well as scholarly journals, including previously unpublished interviews and the first-ever translation of a lengthy, illuminating exchange with the French editors of Positif, this volume spans the full breadth of Winterbottom's notably eclectic feature-film career.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chronology
• Filmography
• Wings of Desire
• People Who Are Excluded from Society: Interview with Michael Winterbottom
• FIR Chats with Director Michael Winterbottom
• An Interview with Michael Winterbottom, Director of Welcome to Sarajevo
• Michael Winterbottom: Welcome to Sarajevo
• Winterbottom Walks through Wonderland
• Michael Winterbottom’s Wonderland
• An Interview with Michael Winterbottom: The Claim
• The Film Factory
• Anarchy in the U.K.: An Interview with 24 Hour Party People Director Michael
• World in Motion
• Michael Winterbottom
• Michael Winterbottom on Code 46: Typical Love Story in an Atypical World
• Michael Winterbottom Gets Naked
• Chaos Theory: Michael Winterbottom on Tristram Shandy
• Michael Winterbottom: “That’s How People Are”
• In Praise of Folly: An Interview with Michael Winterbottom
• Michael Winterbottom’s Road Movie
• Michael Winterbottom Opens His Heart
• Interview with Michael Winterbottom
• Michael Winterbottom’s True Stories: The Shock Doctrine
• Michael Winterbottom: Genova
• Michael Winterbottom: The Killer Inside Me
• Index