If Nic could put the Montreal opening on the front page, I will put this here:
Anyways the review came from the Calgary Sun here is the link:
http://www.canoe.ca/CalgaryToday/cs.cs-10-18-0147.html
But here it is for those of you who want to read it here:
4 out of 5 stars
Friday, October 18, 2002 Party People exhilarates By LISA WILTON, CALGARY SUN
If MC Hammer's U Can't Touch This or Walk Like An Egyptian by The Bangles were part of your soundtrack to the '80s, 24 Hour Party People won't cause much excitement.
However, if Love Will Tear Us Apart, Wrote For Luck or Blue Monday mean anything to you, Michael Winterbottom's exhilarating account of the rise and fall of England's Factory Records is one of the best films you'll see all year.
Steve Coogan is exceptional as Factory founder Tony Wilson. His richly comic portrayal and deadpan delivery is thrilling to observe.
Eccentric, droll and likeably arrogant, Wilson helped put Manchester in the forefront of British post-punk, indie and dance music throughout the 1980s and early '90s.
Wilson -- at the time a well-known news reporter for Grenada TV -- helped launch the careers of seminal British bands Joy Division (later New Order) and the Happy Mondays, and was a driving force behind Manchester's own Studio 54, The Hacienda. Named after a Mondays song, 24 Hour Party People spans two decades in two hours. Obviously, this does not leave a lot of time for detail.
Characters and events fly by at break-neck speed and if you don't already have a general knowledge of the music or people involved, not even Coogan's audience-oriented explanations will clear things up.
Winterbottom's direction and raw cinematography is almost as engaging as the story itself. 24 Hour Party People is far from a rock 'n' roll fairy tale, but for those who love the music, it's heavenly nostlagia.
SUN RATING: 4 out of 5
PLAYING AT:
The Uptown
