Country: UK
Year: 2013
Duration: 96'
2012: The Stone Roses, the iconic band of the Madchester music scene, reunite after a sixteen-year-long hiatus. The rehearsals for the new tour intertwine with archive footage, the personal experiences of people touched by their music, and the best moments from the three summer concerts at Manchester’s Heaton Park where the band performed in front of 220,000 adoring fans.
Biography
film director
Shane Meadows
Shane Meadows (Uttoxeter, UK, 1972), after dropping out of school, tried a variety of jobs until he started shooting short films. Film producer Stephen Woolley signed him to direct Twenty Four Seven (1997), which was presented in several international film festivals and won numerous awards such as the FIPRESCI Award at Venice. The following comedy Once Upon a Time in the Midlands was selected at the Cannes Film Festival, and in 2000 he presented at Toronto Film Festival This Is England: the film was followed by two tv series, also directed by Meadows. In 2008 Somers Town was premiered at the Berlinale and the following year the mockumentary Le Donk & Scor-Zay-Zee screened at 27th Turin Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
King of the Gypsys (cm, 1995), Small Time (1996), Where’s the Money, Ronnie? (cm, 1996), Twenty Four Seven (Ventiquattrosette, 1997), A Room for Romeo Brass (1999), Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (C’era una volta in Inghilterra, 2002), Dead Man’s Shoes (2004), Northern Soul (mm, 2004), The Stairwell (cm, 2005), This Is England (id., 2006), Somers Town (2008), Le Donk & Scor-Zay-Zee (2009), The Stone Roses: Made of Stone (doc., 2013).
Declaration
film director
“In 1990 I was seventeen, and had a ticket for Spike Island. For someone from a town like Uttoxeter, this was a big deal. But the night before the gig, I took acid, and had the most horrendous trip ever. For some reason, I gave my ticket away to some bloke I met in the street. I woke up the next morning and realised what I’d done but the bus had left, and I wasn’t going to Spike Island. Roll on twenty-two years and on October 2011 Ian Brown rings to tell me my favourite band of all time are getting back together again. It was every Roses fan’s wildest dream. Then he said they wanted me to film the press conference. I said, ‘Well, I hope you’re going to ask about making a film – just don’t give anyone else the job, I’ll do it.’”
Cast
& Credits
REGIA
Shane Meadows
FOTOGRAFIA
Laurie Rose
MONTAGGIO
Matthew Gray, Chris King, Tobias Zaldua
MUSICA
The Stone Roses
INTERPRETI
Ian Brown, Gary Mounfield, John Squire, Alan Wren
PRODUTTORE
Mark Herbert
PRODUZIONE
Warp Films
COPRODUZIONE
Film4, Big Arty Productions
Shane Meadows
FOTOGRAFIA
Laurie Rose
MONTAGGIO
Matthew Gray, Chris King, Tobias Zaldua
MUSICA
The Stone Roses
INTERPRETI
Ian Brown, Gary Mounfield, John Squire, Alan Wren
PRODUTTORE
Mark Herbert
PRODUZIONE
Warp Films
COPRODUZIONE
Film4, Big Arty Productions
