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Shane Meadows is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Director of Photography and Editor British born on 26 december 1972 at Uttoxeter (United-kingdom)
Shane Meadows (born 26 December 1972) is an English film director, screenwriter, occasional actor and BAFTA winner.
Peu attiré par l'école, Shane abandonne sa scolarité avant l'entrée au lycée. Autodidacte, il est influencé par les films de Clint Eastwood et de Martin Scorsese. « Je pensais que le but ultime à atteindre pour tout homme dans sa vie, c'était cette virilité violente. Je rêvais d'être comme Jimmy Boyle, John Mc Vicar ou Kray. Tout comme les gamins d'aujourd'hui adorent Beckham, j'adorais Jimmy Boyle. Je voulais voir les hommes se battre, je cherchais à provoquer cette violence et c'est devenu très difficile pour moi de vivre avec ce sentiment. »
Installé à Nottingham depuis 1992, c'est là qu'il commence sa carrière de réalisateur, avec un premier long-métrage, Small Time, distribué en 1996, et surtout Where's The Money, Ronnie?, un court-métrage réalisé la même année qui lui fait acquérir un début de notoriété. L'année suivante il tourne son second long-métrage, Twenty Four Seven.
Les films de Shane Meadows, ancrés dans la réalité sociale de l'Angleterre et souvent tournés avec des acteurs non-professionnels, lui ont valu d'être comparé à ses aînés Ken Loach et Mike Leigh.
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Il grandit dans le quartier de Westlands Road : son père est chauffeur de camion et sa mère travaille dans une boutique de Fish and Chips. Il travaille le week-end sur le marché de fruits et légumes.Peu attiré par l'école, Shane abandonne sa scolarité avant l'entrée au lycée. Autodidacte, il est influencé par les films de Clint Eastwood et de Martin Scorsese. « Je pensais que le but ultime à atteindre pour tout homme dans sa vie, c'était cette virilité violente. Je rêvais d'être comme Jimmy Boyle, John Mc Vicar ou Kray. Tout comme les gamins d'aujourd'hui adorent Beckham, j'adorais Jimmy Boyle. Je voulais voir les hommes se battre, je cherchais à provoquer cette violence et c'est devenu très difficile pour moi de vivre avec ce sentiment. »
Installé à Nottingham depuis 1992, c'est là qu'il commence sa carrière de réalisateur, avec un premier long-métrage, Small Time, distribué en 1996, et surtout Where's The Money, Ronnie?, un court-métrage réalisé la même année qui lui fait acquérir un début de notoriété. L'année suivante il tourne son second long-métrage, Twenty Four Seven.
Les films de Shane Meadows, ancrés dans la réalité sociale de l'Angleterre et souvent tournés avec des acteurs non-professionnels, lui ont valu d'être comparé à ses aînés Ken Loach et Mike Leigh.
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Filmography of Shane Meadows (11 films)
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, 1h36Directed by Shane Meadows
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors Shane Meadows, Eric Cantona
Roles Self
Rating71%
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Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee (2009)
, 1h11Directed by Shane Meadows
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Documentary, Musical
Actors Paddy Considine, Olivia Colman, Shane Meadows, Richard Graham
Roles Self
Rating62%
Aging, failed musician and roadie Le Donk is introduced to a fly on the wall documentary film crew, including real life director Meadows, at his Nottingham home. Scorzayzee is an aspiring rapper who Le Donk is mentoring. Le Donk and the film crew visit the home of his former girlfriend Olivia (Olivia Colman), who is pregnant with Le Donk's child. Le Donk becomes irate when he learns Olivia's new boyfriend is to be her birth partner.
, 1h44Directed by Shane Meadows
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Romance
Themes Films about families
Actors Robert Carlyle, Rhys Ifans, Kathy Burke, Ricky Tomlinson, Shirley Henderson, Andrew Shim
Roles Bingo Caller
Rating60%
Dek (Rhys Ifans) proposes to his girlfriend Shirley (Shirley Henderson) on TV. When Jimmy (Robert Carlyle), "the great love of her life" and father of her daughter Marlene (Finn Atkins), sees this, he returns in an attempt to win back her heart. However, after deserting his friends in Scotland during an unsuccessful robbery of some clowns, his friends turn against him and come to the Midlands to try to track him down. In the end, Shirley refuses to go with Jimmy and professes her love for Dek after Marlene refuses to have anything to do with Jimmy and is only ready to accept Dek as the father figure.
A Room for Romeo Brass (1999)
, 1h30Directed by Shane Meadows
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Andrew Shim, Paddy Considine, Vicky McClure, Shane Meadows, Frank Harper, Bob Hoskins
Roles Male Nurse (credited as Shaun Fields)
Rating74%
12-year-old boys Romeo Brass and Gavin Woolley have been best friends and neighbors for the majority of their lives. Gavin suffers from injuries to his back to subject him to bullying from other local boys to which Romeo quickly steps to defend him. On one particular day two boys confront Gavin and once again Romeo steps in and things turn violent, and since Gavin's injury prevents him from fighting he can't assist his friend. During the fight Gavin spots Morell and calls for him to help and Morell chases the two boys off and then drives Romeo and Gavin home. Upon meeting Morell Romeo's family quickly deduce his behavior as peculiar. Morell quickly develops an immediate attraction to Romeo's sister Ladine and seeks Romeo's advice to go out with her, Gavin takes the opportunity to play a trick on Morell that would result in him humiliating himself. Morell returns to the shop where Ladine works to apologize and ask her out again to which she accepts out of pity.
TwentyFourSeven (1997)
, 1h36Directed by Shane Meadows
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Bob Hoskins, James Hooton, Annette Badland, Karl Collins, James Corden, Frank Harper
Roles Man with Saucepan on Head
Rating69%
In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy (Bob Hoskins), a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in; boxing. Soon, he opens a training facility which is accepted gratefully by them and the gangs start to grow together into friends. Darcy manages to organise a public fight for them to prove what they have learned. A training camp with hiking tours into the mountains of Wales forge the group into a tightly-knit club society. With the day of the fight drawing closer, the young boxers get more and more excited.
Small Time (1996)
, 1hDirected by Shane Meadows
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Shane Meadows
Roles Jumbo
Rating57%
The film follows a group of friends that are small time criminals in Sneinton, a suburb of Nottingham. The main protagonists are best friends, Jumbo and Malc. At the beginning of the film we hear Jumbo narrating, "We're not into anything heavy. We just rob from the rich and sell it to the poor for half price. We're just small time."
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, 1h36Directed by Shane Meadows
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors Shane Meadows, Eric Cantona
Rating71%
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Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee (2009)
, 1h11Directed by Shane Meadows
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Documentary, Musical
Actors Paddy Considine, Olivia Colman, Shane Meadows, Richard Graham
Rating62%
Aging, failed musician and roadie Le Donk is introduced to a fly on the wall documentary film crew, including real life director Meadows, at his Nottingham home. Scorzayzee is an aspiring rapper who Le Donk is mentoring. Le Donk and the film crew visit the home of his former girlfriend Olivia (Olivia Colman), who is pregnant with Le Donk's child. Le Donk becomes irate when he learns Olivia's new boyfriend is to be her birth partner.
Somers Town (2008)
, 1h11Directed by Shane Meadows
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Thomas Turgoose, Perry Benson, Elisa Lasowski, Kate Dickie, Trevor Cooper, Mark Monero
Rating67%
Somers Town follows several days in the lives of two teenage boys, Tomo and Marek, who develop a mutual trust and form an unlikely friendship. Marek, a Polish immigrant, lives with his father, who drinks too much. The film begins with Tomo running away to London from a lonely, difficult life in Nottingham. When Tomo arrives at his destination, he attempts to enjoy cans of Carling that he asked a stranger to purchase for him. His luck changes when three boys approach him and ask him questions. The gang robs Tomo of his bag, which contains all of his money and clothes. They also beat him up, leaving him severely bruised.
This Is England (2007)
, 1h41Directed by Shane Meadows
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about racism, Skinheads, Films about school violence
Actors Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Andrew Shim, Vicky McClure, Joseph Gilgun, Rosamund Hanson
Rating76%
In 1983, 12-year-old Shaun gets into a fight at school after a classmate makes an offensive joke about his father, who died in the Falklands War. On his way home, Shaun comes across a gang of young skinheads led by Woody, who feels sympathy for Shaun and invites him to join the group. They accept Shaun as a member, and he finds a big brother in Woody, while developing a romance with Smell, an older girl who dresses in a new wave style.
A Parting Shot (2007)
Directed by Shane Meadows, Jeanne Waltz
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Isild Le Besco, Lio, Yves Verhoeven, Michel Raskine, Jocelyne Desverchère, Christian Sinniger
Rating66%
Frédérique, infirmière à l'hôpital d'une petite ville suisse, est une jeune femme en colère. Aliénée de son père et abandonnée par son amant policier, elle méprise les hommes. Dans un bar elle rencontre deux mecs et dans une salle de magasin les baisent. Marre de la vie, elle va dans les bois avec une carabine pour se tuer. À ce moment, deux garçons se chamaillent et l'un tire sur l'autre avec sa catapulte, lui blessant un œil. Impulsivement, Frédérique tire sur l'agresseur.
This Is England (series) (2007)
Directed by Shane Meadows
Origin United-kingdom
Actors Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Andrew Shim, Vicky McClure, Joseph Gilgun, Rosamund Hanson
Dead Man's Shoes (2004)
, 1h30Directed by Shane Meadows
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about the labor movement, Harcèlement au travail
Actors Paddy Considine, Toby Kebbell, Stuart Wolfenden, Andrew Shim
Rating74%
The story details the return of Richard to his home town of Matlock, Derbyshire in the Peak District, England, after serving in the British army. Richard and his younger, mentally-impaired brother Anthony, camp at an abandoned farm near the town. Flashbacks reveal Anthony's abuse by a group of drug dealers in the town; Richard vows to take revenge.
, 1h44Directed by Shane Meadows
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Romance
Themes Films about families
Actors Robert Carlyle, Rhys Ifans, Kathy Burke, Ricky Tomlinson, Shirley Henderson, Andrew Shim
Rating60%
Dek (Rhys Ifans) proposes to his girlfriend Shirley (Shirley Henderson) on TV. When Jimmy (Robert Carlyle), "the great love of her life" and father of her daughter Marlene (Finn Atkins), sees this, he returns in an attempt to win back her heart. However, after deserting his friends in Scotland during an unsuccessful robbery of some clowns, his friends turn against him and come to the Midlands to try to track him down. In the end, Shirley refuses to go with Jimmy and professes her love for Dek after Marlene refuses to have anything to do with Jimmy and is only ready to accept Dek as the father figure.
A Room for Romeo Brass (1999)
, 1h30Directed by Shane Meadows
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Andrew Shim, Paddy Considine, Vicky McClure, Shane Meadows, Frank Harper, Bob Hoskins
Rating74%
12-year-old boys Romeo Brass and Gavin Woolley have been best friends and neighbors for the majority of their lives. Gavin suffers from injuries to his back to subject him to bullying from other local boys to which Romeo quickly steps to defend him. On one particular day two boys confront Gavin and once again Romeo steps in and things turn violent, and since Gavin's injury prevents him from fighting he can't assist his friend. During the fight Gavin spots Morell and calls for him to help and Morell chases the two boys off and then drives Romeo and Gavin home. Upon meeting Morell Romeo's family quickly deduce his behavior as peculiar. Morell quickly develops an immediate attraction to Romeo's sister Ladine and seeks Romeo's advice to go out with her, Gavin takes the opportunity to play a trick on Morell that would result in him humiliating himself. Morell returns to the shop where Ladine works to apologize and ask her out again to which she accepts out of pity.