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Limboland

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February 2010, no. 318

Michael Winterbottom by Brian McFarlane and Deane Williams

Manchester University Press (Footprint Books), $119 hb, 152 pp

Limboland

by
February 2010, no. 318

I approached this readable and well-informed study expecting a middling book on a middling filmmaker. Michael Winterbottom is obviously a talented man by the standards of modern British commercial cinema, but I have always associated his work with a routine blend of fashionable technique and pious liberal sentiment. Nor did Brian McFarlane and Deane Williams raise my hopes with their introduction, in which they praise Winterbottom’s business sense and his avoidance of ‘high-flown accounts of what he is up to’. Above all, they seem impressed by the sheer industry of a director who has averaged one feature a year for the past decade and a half; however you judge him, ‘he does keep getting his films made’.

Jake Wilson reviews 'Michael Winterbottom' by Brian McFarlane and Deane Williams

Michael Winterbottom

by Brian McFarlane and Deane Williams

Manchester University Press (Footprint Books), $119 hb, 152 pp

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