Gillian Anderson said yes!
The great new Michael Winterbottom film, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, surprised me by featuring my favorite music ever written for a film, Michael Nyman’s score for The Draughtsman’s Contract. It was a tad unfortunate that the recordings used were by the Michael Nyman Band rather than the ensemble on the original recording, but no matter; the music worked really well-— better, in fact, than it did in The Draughtsman’s Contract. “An Eye for Optical Theory,” my favorite piece, is actually the most common cue in Tristram. I couldn’t have been happier.
I haven’t seen 24 Hour Party People yet, but if it’s as good as Tristram, I’m all over it. In Tristram, Tony Wilson plays a reporter named Gary Wilson who interviews Steve Coogan. Wacky.
As an amusing sidenote, I read in the hyperbolically titled yet very well-researched The Smiths: Songs That Saved Your Life that Morrissey and Tony Wilson had a nice public spat back in the day. Why, here's the segment (pp. 119-120, from the new edition):
[In response to the Morrissey lyric 'Belligerent ghouls run Manchester schools'] The Manchester Education Committee wasn't ... impressed, and tried-- in vain-- to prevent The Smiths from playing within their jurisdiction. The controversy resulted in an amusing confrontation between Morrissey and Tony Wilson during a Granada TV news report coinciding with the album's [Meat Is Murder's] release, in which the singer not only defended his 'right' to attack his former school governors but impertinently suggested Wilson should try his hand at being a pop star himself.
Relations between these two opposing leviathans of the Mancunian music scene curdled considerably thereafter. When Wilson called Morrissey 'a woman trapped in a man's body', the latter replied that the Factory Records' boss was a 'pig trapped in a man's body' and that 'the day somebody shoves Wilson in the boot of a car and drives his body to Saddleworth Moor, that is the day that Manchester music will be revived.' Asked to defend the severity of these comments by The Observer in 1992, Morrissey digressed; 'Actually I was misquoted on that one. What I actually said was that he is a man trapped in a pig's body.'
I haven’t seen 24 Hour Party People yet, but if it’s as good as Tristram, I’m all over it. In Tristram, Tony Wilson plays a reporter named Gary Wilson who interviews Steve Coogan. Wacky.
As an amusing sidenote, I read in the hyperbolically titled yet very well-researched The Smiths: Songs That Saved Your Life that Morrissey and Tony Wilson had a nice public spat back in the day. Why, here's the segment (pp. 119-120, from the new edition):
[In response to the Morrissey lyric 'Belligerent ghouls run Manchester schools'] The Manchester Education Committee wasn't ... impressed, and tried-- in vain-- to prevent The Smiths from playing within their jurisdiction. The controversy resulted in an amusing confrontation between Morrissey and Tony Wilson during a Granada TV news report coinciding with the album's [Meat Is Murder's] release, in which the singer not only defended his 'right' to attack his former school governors but impertinently suggested Wilson should try his hand at being a pop star himself.
Relations between these two opposing leviathans of the Mancunian music scene curdled considerably thereafter. When Wilson called Morrissey 'a woman trapped in a man's body', the latter replied that the Factory Records' boss was a 'pig trapped in a man's body' and that 'the day somebody shoves Wilson in the boot of a car and drives his body to Saddleworth Moor, that is the day that Manchester music will be revived.' Asked to defend the severity of these comments by The Observer in 1992, Morrissey digressed; 'Actually I was misquoted on that one. What I actually said was that he is a man trapped in a pig's body.'
posted by Spencer Owen at 10:01 PM
2 Comments:
wow. i'm excited to see this film, and also to hear the incorporation of the nyman, and perhaps the disposition of the linen.
You'll see more than the linen, my friend.
Yeah, it's a great movie that all should see. Enjoyable in the essence of the term.
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