Danny Boyle is set to reunite with ‘Trainspotting’ authour Irvine Welsh to executive produce a biopic on Oasis’s label boss Alan McGee.
The project, titled ‘Creation Stories’ will be based on McGee’s own biographical novel and will be adapted for the screen by Welsh and Dean Cavanagh. The film tells of the relentless ambition, mental torment, drugs, bankruptcy, unfathomable wealth, courting politicians and of how one written-off young Glaswegian upstart rose to change the face of British culture.
‘Trainspotting’s’ Ewan Bremner (Spud), will be taking up the lead as McGee. Rupert Everett, Suki Waterhouse and Jason Flemyng have also been added to the cast. Nick Moran will take the helm.
“I’ve been lucky to work with both Danny and Nick over the years and to have the two of them together on this project, along with Ewen, feels like a lottery win,” said Welsh.
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The project, titled ‘Creation Stories’ will be based on McGee’s own biographical novel and will be adapted for the screen by Welsh and Dean Cavanagh. The film tells of the relentless ambition, mental torment, drugs, bankruptcy, unfathomable wealth, courting politicians and of how one written-off young Glaswegian upstart rose to change the face of British culture.
‘Trainspotting’s’ Ewan Bremner (Spud), will be taking up the lead as McGee. Rupert Everett, Suki Waterhouse and Jason Flemyng have also been added to the cast. Nick Moran will take the helm.
“I’ve been lucky to work with both Danny and Nick over the years and to have the two of them together on this project, along with Ewen, feels like a lottery win,” said Welsh.
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- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
David Lynch proved himself as a master of film music in his 1986 feature.
“Every note of music has enough breath to carry you away, and as a director, all you have to do is let the right wind blow at the right time” — David Lynch
Sound and music are incredibly important in David Lynch’s films. From Eraserhead (1977) on, Lynch has shown his talent for creating creepy and dreamy soundscapes, which include music and dialogue as well as diegetic and non-diegetic sound effects. Perhaps Lynch’s most popular film, Blue Velvet (1986) perfectly blends together pop music, original score, and Lynchian sound effects. Blue Velvet is especially rich with beautiful music that both comments on and runs counter to the images onscreen. This was the first film in which Lynch focused on both original score/sound effects and pre-existing pop music.
David Lynch is never completely serious or completely joking — he is always both at the same time...
“Every note of music has enough breath to carry you away, and as a director, all you have to do is let the right wind blow at the right time” — David Lynch
Sound and music are incredibly important in David Lynch’s films. From Eraserhead (1977) on, Lynch has shown his talent for creating creepy and dreamy soundscapes, which include music and dialogue as well as diegetic and non-diegetic sound effects. Perhaps Lynch’s most popular film, Blue Velvet (1986) perfectly blends together pop music, original score, and Lynchian sound effects. Blue Velvet is especially rich with beautiful music that both comments on and runs counter to the images onscreen. This was the first film in which Lynch focused on both original score/sound effects and pre-existing pop music.
David Lynch is never completely serious or completely joking — he is always both at the same time...
- 3/28/2017
- by Angela Morrison
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The Jesus & Mary Chain and Oasis are in this doumentary, but it's their label, Creation, and its founder Alan McGee who are the fascinating subject
While you'll find many a record-label documentary propping up the schedules of BBC4, they don't often make it into cinemas. This one is presumably relying on the dose of retro charm provided by a back catalogue filled with everthing from mid-80s indie types like the Jesus and Mary Chain to 1990s rock'n'roll behemoths Oasis. Creation founder Alan McGee has never been shy of publicity and, indeed, he dominates the film, recounting with disarming enthusiasm his early forays into the record business, and offering more than a few war stories involving copious drug and alcohol abuse. The way McGee tells it, it's amazing any records ever got put out, but presumably it's thanks to his sober sidekick, Dick Green. With a talking-heads format, it's pretty trad to look at,...
While you'll find many a record-label documentary propping up the schedules of BBC4, they don't often make it into cinemas. This one is presumably relying on the dose of retro charm provided by a back catalogue filled with everthing from mid-80s indie types like the Jesus and Mary Chain to 1990s rock'n'roll behemoths Oasis. Creation founder Alan McGee has never been shy of publicity and, indeed, he dominates the film, recounting with disarming enthusiasm his early forays into the record business, and offering more than a few war stories involving copious drug and alcohol abuse. The way McGee tells it, it's amazing any records ever got put out, but presumably it's thanks to his sober sidekick, Dick Green. With a talking-heads format, it's pretty trad to look at,...
- 4/28/2011
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Director: Danny O'Connor In my humble opinion, Creation Records is one of the most important record labels in the history of British rock music (alongside the likes of Rough Trade and Factory). Founded in 1983 by Alan McGee, Dick Green and Joe Foster, Creation's premiere release was the "'73 in '83" single by The Legend! for which Creation acquired a £1,000 bank loan to fund. Creation went on to release albums by countless seminal bands of the British indie scene, including: Oasis, My Bloody Valentine, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Pastels, Television Personalities, Primal Scream, The Loft, Super Furry Animals, Teenage Fanclub, Saint Etienne, The Boo Radleys, 3 Colours Red, Ride, Swervedriver, Slowdive, BMX Bandits, The House of Love, The Weather Prophets, Felt, The Telescopes, The Jazz Butcher, Momus, Sugar, and Teenage Filmstars. Creation's roster forever redefined music and -- according to Danny O'Connor's Upside Down: The Creation Records Story --...
- 4/23/2011
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Despite the absence of several notable characters, this documentary gives an interesting glimpse into the history of Creation Records
There's one great stroke of genius to Upside Down, Danny O'Connor's chronicle of the birth, glory years and demise of mouthy mogul Alan McGee's iconic record label. It's the lack of a voiceover: O'Connor eschews traditional narration in favour of nuggets of rock'n'roll wisdom, spoken by ageing Irish DJ, music guru and McGee's Death Disco co-conspirator Bp Fallon ("purple-browed beep" in T Rex's Telegram Sam). Fallon is shot in monochrome and beamed onto a grainy 50s TV set – a move that ensures the film stays in tune with the vibe of the bands Creation championed: amongst others Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine, The Pastels, The Jazz Butcher, Felt, Ride, Super Furry Animals, and most lucratively, Oasis.
The main players tell the story themselves in interviews spliced with archive footage...
There's one great stroke of genius to Upside Down, Danny O'Connor's chronicle of the birth, glory years and demise of mouthy mogul Alan McGee's iconic record label. It's the lack of a voiceover: O'Connor eschews traditional narration in favour of nuggets of rock'n'roll wisdom, spoken by ageing Irish DJ, music guru and McGee's Death Disco co-conspirator Bp Fallon ("purple-browed beep" in T Rex's Telegram Sam). Fallon is shot in monochrome and beamed onto a grainy 50s TV set – a move that ensures the film stays in tune with the vibe of the bands Creation championed: amongst others Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine, The Pastels, The Jazz Butcher, Felt, Ride, Super Furry Animals, and most lucratively, Oasis.
The main players tell the story themselves in interviews spliced with archive footage...
- 3/18/2011
- by Giles Anderton
- The Guardian - Film News
Upside Down relates the rise and fall of Creation Records, arguably the most important British record label of the 1980s and ’90s, as told by those who were there and lived to tell the tale.
Eschewing voice over narration or gushing on camera tributes from well known admirers and critics, the filmmakers do an exemplary job of telling the happily sordid story of Alan McGee and his band of merry men (and women, although the label was very much a boy’s club) and their largely exultant romp through the music industry during its last burst of glory.
Launched in 1983 by Alan McGee, Dick Green and Joe Foster with profits from their successful Tottenham Court Road hipster club The Living Room (or a £1,000 bank loan, depending on which version of the story one believes), Creation initially released 7″ singles, including The Jesus & Mary Chain’s ‘Upside Down,’ one of the biggest...
Eschewing voice over narration or gushing on camera tributes from well known admirers and critics, the filmmakers do an exemplary job of telling the happily sordid story of Alan McGee and his band of merry men (and women, although the label was very much a boy’s club) and their largely exultant romp through the music industry during its last burst of glory.
Launched in 1983 by Alan McGee, Dick Green and Joe Foster with profits from their successful Tottenham Court Road hipster club The Living Room (or a £1,000 bank loan, depending on which version of the story one believes), Creation initially released 7″ singles, including The Jesus & Mary Chain’s ‘Upside Down,’ one of the biggest...
- 10/28/2010
- by Ian Gilchrist
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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