Michael Winterbottom is a creative film maker of UK. He was born on March 29, 1961 and have so far directed around 15 films in a span of twelve years. Before making feature films, Michael Winterbottom acted in the British TV.Some movies directed by Michael Winterbottom have also been nominated for the Plame d'Or, a prestigious award given at the Cannes Film Festival. Some of these movies are 24 Hour Party People, Wonderland and Welcome to Sarajevo.
Michael Winterbottom has also worked for the television. His mystery series ‘Cracker’ for the television is popular among masses. Yet another mystery serial the ‘Inspector Alleyn Mysteries’ is also well known. Michael Winterbottom has also made documentaries on the famous Swedish film maker Ingmar Bergman. Other than movies for the television, Winterbottom also directed an episode of the famous television series called Cinema Europe:The Other Hollywood.
The ‘Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood’ emphasizes the Scandinavian client cinema. Michael Winterbottom is also the director of mini-series ‘Family’. The story of this mini series is written by Roddy Doyle.The special characteristic of this mini series is its portrayal and focus on the working class people in each episode.
‘Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood’ made Michael Winterbottom famous among the regular viewers of the movies. Michael Winterbottom became popular among the regular movie goers after this film was edited into a feature film.
‘Butterfly Kiss’ is the first feature film directed by Michael Winterbottom. This film was released in the year 1995 and showed the film maker's sense in the visual arts. |
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The style of the film is also highly naturalistic and pop music was used in this film for the sake of the narrative.
Butterfly Kiss narrates the story of a lesbian serial killer. In the year Butterfly Kiss joined in an enterprise with Jimmy McGovern the writer of Cracker in order to make a television film for the BBC. The name of the television film is Go Now.
Michael Winterbottom made a film on a famous novel Jude the Obscure. This is a famous novel written by Thomas Hardy. The director adapted the novel to make a film. He became very famous after the release of this film. ‘Welcome to Sarajevo’ is another film of Michael Winterbottom.
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