Few filmmaking careers are as unpredictable as that of director Michael Winterbottom. The restlessly experimental Brit seems to go out of his way to make wildly diverging projects every time he steps behind a camera, ranging from ...
It’s hard to imagine a more unlikely franchise than Michael Winterbottom, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon’s ‘The Trip’. It began as a lark, an improvisational comedy hinged on a road trip and conversations with...
Director Michael Winterbottom’s career has been defined by cinematic experiments. Sometimes they pay off (’24 Hour Party People’) and sometimes they fail wildly (‘9 Songs’), but at least he takes the ...
Michael Winterbottom’s latest cinematic experiment starts off loosely based on a filmmaker investigating the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher in Italy before almost instantly dropping that subject matter in favor of a charact...
Back in 2010, director Michael Winterbottom and the brilliant British comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon drove around to a handful of restaurants in England with a loose outline of a screenplay and improvised some cinematic gol...
If someone had told me that director Michael Winterbottom would make the dullest movie Sundance had to offer this year, I would’ve laughed it off. Unfortunately, after seeing ‘The Look of Love’, I have to apologi...
Independent films? Really? Nah. The Premiere section at Sundance is always a collection of films designed to draw a crowd of well-known movie stars to the summit of Park City. The big names, in both acting and directing, are huge ...
Michael Winterbottom’s uncompromising crime thriller ‘The Killer Inside Me’ is a micro-budgeted indie that has stirred up controversy for its shocking depiction of violence. It was probably my favorite thing that...
