24 Hour Party People (2002)

Daughters of the Dust

Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Daughters of the Dust." A film that portrays the unique culture of the Gullah people by focusing on the extended Peazant family as its members struggle with the decision to leave their island and move north. On the eve of their departure, memories of their Gullah history and its African roots come rising to the surface. Winner of Cinematography at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival.

The true story of maverick Manchester, England-based TV personality Tony Wilson, who by chance stumbled upon an unknown band called the Sex Pistols in the mid-'70s and went on to become a key but unsavvy promoter of punk rock via his club and record label.

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Cambridge-educated Tony Wilson is a young but established TV journalist in Manchester who is fed up with his silly assignments, be they hang-gliding adventures or an interview with a midget who cares for elephants. When one evening he…

July 8, 2002

Here's the real deal in a rock movie. It's a fractured fever dream that looks at the British music scene through the drug-glazed eyes of Tony Wilson, played with hurricane force and bruising wit by Steve Coogan. Remember the name. Brits know Coogan as the chat-show host Alan Partridge, a character he plays for laughs on the local telly. Most Yanks don't know him at all, but we will after this. Calling Coogan's performance dynamite doesn't do him or the movie justice. Wilson is the Manchester TV…

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January 14, 2003

Michael Winterbottom's pitch-perfect docudrama re-creates the drug-fueled rock scene in Manchester, England, the industrial-blight backwater that spawned bands such as Joy Division/New Order and Happy Mondays. But it's chiefly the story of the self-mythologizing television reporter and scene-maker Tony Wilson -- played by Brit TV comic Steve Coogan -- who almost single-handedly built the bridge from punk to rave.

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