Director: Michael Winterbottom
Script: Frank Cottrell Boyce
Photography: Robby Müller
Editor: Trevor Waite
Music: Liz Gallacher
Production Design: Mark Tildesley
With: Steve Coogan, Paddy Considine, Danny Cunningham, Sean Harris, Shirley Henderson
Producer: Andrew Eaton
Executive Producer: Henry Normal
Production: Revolution Films Ltd
Distribution: The Works International
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Selected Filmography Michael Winterbottom: The Road to Guantanamo, 2006; A Cock and Bull Story, 2005; 9 Songs, 2004; Code 46, 2003; In this World, 2002; The Claim, 2000; Welcome to Sarajevo, 1997; Wonderland, 1999; Jude, 1996; Butterfly Kiss, 1995.
The film to the New Wave revival. “24 Hour Party People” tells the story of Factory Records, perhaps the most important label in post punk history, from the first Sex Pistols gig in Manchester in 1976 to the closing down of the legendary rave club Hacienda in 1997. Michael Winterbottom’s piece of pop music history is an arrangement of documentary footage and many self-deprecating cameo appearances by protagonists of times past. The rise and fall of major Factory acts like Joy Division, New Order and Happy Mondays is shown in affectionate reenactments, but above all, brilliant Factory impresario Tony Wilson as the dandified narrator holds the center of the film.