Shane Meadows: thoroughly lovely man.
I made this!
This might be of limited interest, but if you like Shane Meadows, then you might like this. I've been running a tiny fortnightly film club- The Beestonian Film Club at Cafe Roya - above a restaurant in Beeston, a few miles outside Nottingham. Usually just showing shorts and work from local directors to around 30 people paying a few quid to see some arty shorts and get a meal for just a few quid, it ticks along quietly. However, I got a call over the Autumn, with a gruff voiced bloke reckoning he was Shane Meadows asking if he could come along. I assumed it was a piss-take, but no, he really was Shane, and fancied showing a load of shorts never shown in public before. So we arranged an evening,drew up a programme, and I managed to badger the former film editor of Q Magazine, and Guardian reviewer, Ali Catterall to come up north, sleep on my sofa, and do a Q+A with the amazing director man. He agreed, and this is the result, one of the weirdest nights of my life. We also raised a chunk of money for Oxfam, and even had a guest star: the Broadchurch-tastic Vicky McClure came along too. We're looking at getting Speilberg and that Michael Bay along for 2014...
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excellent
well done on getting all that arranged. Think Dead Man's Shoes is my fave of his, but pretty much like everything he has ever done
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Mster Johnny Ekstrom, now that's a name, Thu 2 Jan 2014, 13:59,
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Dead Man's Shoes is a masterpiece. Paddy Considine is such a good, menacing actor.
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Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Thu 2 Jan 2014, 14:13,
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Also a fantastic comic actor... www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZzxB2QULYs
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Ha!
His character in Romeo Brass was psychotically comical too.
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Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Thu 2 Jan 2014, 15:10,
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Yeah, I agree
Romeo Brass and Dead Man's shoes were the first time I ever saw a film that felt like bits of my life, I feel like I knew copies of that gang of pricks in dead man's shoes in my late teens, horrible,
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^This^
With giant massive bells on!
The scene when he first confronts Gary Stretch in the street is (in my humble) one of the greatest bits of acting in any film.
And Toby Kebbel is amazing, stunningly good.
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sir_spicious2000 Crap I've watched: www.filmplop.blogspot.com/, Thu 2 Jan 2014, 15:04,
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Paddy Considine is the only actor I would purposefully stop in the street and demand an audience with if I saw him
would be almost worth the ticket to Burton on Trent
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Well done indeed.
He is a top bloke alright.
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Thu 2 Jan 2014, 14:03,
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Wow good sutff
Will have to watch this at home this evening, but you get a click for the event and good charidee work
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DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Thu 2 Jan 2014, 14:25,
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Well done you, that's a brilliant achievement that is.
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Pig Bodine., Thu 2 Jan 2014, 14:51,
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I've not actually seen any of his films; but well done there,
from a Nottingham based B3tan, who used to work in Beeston ;)
Will watch this later (bookmarked)!
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Good work!
Big fan of his stuff!
*Click*
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sir_spicious2000 Crap I've watched: www.filmplop.blogspot.com/, Thu 2 Jan 2014, 15:07,
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I like his work but having lived in Sneinton for many years and worked with some of his friends from his youth I would hesitate at calling the Shane of old a "thoroughly nice bloke".
Dead Man's Shoes is fantastically sinister, however.
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Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Thu 2 Jan 2014, 15:41,
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Anecdotes please.
Just put 'allegedly' at the end if you are worried about libel.
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Pig Bodine., Thu 2 Jan 2014, 16:04,
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