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posted by davidt
on Friday October 27 2000, @09:15AM
kevin writes:
City Life (Manchester's version of "Time Out") reports that the Smiths inspired film, "Unloveable", will be shown at the Manchester Cornerhouse cinema on Wednesday 8 November. The film features Mike Joyce. This is part of a Manchester Reel Life festival which showcases work by independent filmakers inspired by Manchester music.
The article is titled "Paint a Vulgar Picture" and is as follows:
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Manchester's strongest draw in the pop tourist trade is, suprisingly, those guitar spangling, flower throwing unlikely lads, The Smiths. The appeal of a landscape as immortalised by Mozzer as 'redeveloped' in reality, is the subject of the 10 minute short, Unloveable. Salford Lads Club, Southern Cemetery, Saddleworth Moor are all wheeled out one last, mocking time in its portrait of Shed, a self-styled Smiths tour guide who fiendishly relieves Moz-pilgrims of their purses, but not before fully indulging their vinyl etched vision of the city. "You're so lucky to live here!" one avers. "I pinch myself daily", he intones. Produced and directed by Peter Naylor and Carl Hunter, and shot in shimmering monochrome, Unloveable mocks as well as fondly preserves this Rita Tushingham-ville with a cheeky cameo from Mike Joyce as a boiler suited council cleaner, and an epiphanic denoucement on the set of "Suffer Little Children": "Now I understand. These moors, those terrible secrets....the North!"
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