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JUL 23, 2003 01:33 AM
JUL 23, 2003 01:45 AM
I think it's interesting, the interview method used here - declarative statements that Frears then agrees/disagrees w/. I disagree w/ some of what he says about his own work -- denying the focus on multiculturalism on his london stories? eh? Is he cracked out? I read another interview where he pretty much just spent all of his time bitching about the gentrification of Notting Hill. So maybe he's just crotchety. 
As a note, wasn't there some bad Hugh Grant movie maybe 5-7 years ago where he was embroiled in some shady medical controversy? Random association.
I'm planning on seeing Dirty Pretty Things, but I think it's funny how the ad campaign is focusing on Audrey Tautou... if I weren't aware of the contents of the movie, I might think it were some erotic thriller or something. Heh. (then again, they also pushed her in the ads for L'Auberge Espagnole, in which she played a rather marginal role).
JUL 23, 2003 06:48 AM
I love Frears. Wish there had been more talk of "My Beautiful Laundrette" in that interview though. No one ever remembers that movie but me 
But yay Stephen Frears!
Sean
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Los Angeles, CA
JUL 22, 2003 05:00 PM