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Shane Meadows wins at Edinburgh -
30 June 2008
Shane Meadows has been given a major award at this year's Edinburgh International Festival.-The Dead Man's Shoes director scooped the Michael Powell Award for best new British feature for his new film Somers Town, which focuses on the adventures of a Polish teenager in
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England Calling: The Films of Shane Meadows -
23 April 2007
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-I went to film school with Shane Meadows.
Not really, but a few years ago I did do a one-day film-making course in Nottingham that Shane supervised. He showed us which end of the camera to look through, split us into groups of three, and gave us a couple of hou
Shane Meadows - what members say
review by from Surrey
Do not be afraid, they really are talking like normal people! 14 January 2005
review by Ludd from Bristol
Not completely bleak, but nearly. 11 November 2006
review by from WHITSTABLE
5 October 2003
Shane Meadows - filmography
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This Is England '88
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Joseph Gilgun, Vicky McClure
Director: Shane Meadows
Certificate: 
Shane Meadows' much loved creations; Shaun, Lol, Woody and the gang, return for this three-episode Christmas special. THIS IS ENGLAND '88 is set eighteen months after the events of the last critically acclaimed series. Lol (Vicky McClure) is still reeling from Combo's arrest and the circumstances ..read more »
 
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from 1,066 member
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This Is England '88 - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Joseph Gilgun, Vicky McClure
Director: Shane Meadows
Certificate:
Shane Meadows' much loved creations; Shaun, Lol, Woody and the gang, return for this three-episode Christmas special. THIS IS ENGLAND '88 is set eighteen months after the events of the last critically acclaimed series. Lol (Vicky McClure) is still reeling from Combo's arrest and the circumstances ..read more »
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from 389 members
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This Is England '86 - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Andrew Ellis, Andrew Shim, Chanel Cresswell
Director: Shane Meadows
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Set three years after the events of Shane Meadows award-winning semi-autobiographical film THIS IS ENGLAND, Shaun (Thomas Turgoose), Woody (Joe Gilgun), Lol (Vicky McClure), Milky (Andrew Shim) and the gang are back. With Shaun on the cusp of leaving school, and with the perilous world of adulthood ..read more »
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from 992 members
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This Is England '86
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Thomas Turgoose, Johnny Harris, Vicky McClure
Director: Shane Meadows
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This Is England '86 will pick up with the lives of Shaun, Woody and Lol
in 1986 – the year Chris de Burgh is at number one, Top Gun is filling
cinemas, the World Cup is raging in Mexico and over 3.4 million Brits
are unemployed.
As Shaun sits his last school exam, the realisation dawns that ..read more »
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from 2,633 members
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Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Paddy Considine, Scor-Zay-Zee, Olivia Colman
Director: Shane Meadows
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
Rock 'n' roll roadie Le Donk (Paddy Considine, (star of In America, Hot Fuzz) sees a great opportunity when he spots up-and-coming rapper Scor-Zay-Zee, and instantly recognises his potential. Deciding to take the fledgling artist under his wing, and with the help of his 'friends', the Arctic ..read more »
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from 5,060 members
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Somers Town
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Perry Benson, Risade Campbell, Ireneusz Czop
Director: Shane Meadows
Certificate: 
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Runaway Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) arrives in London with nothing but a bag and a swagger. Within hours, the bag has been stolen and a chance meeting with bored Polish teenager Marek proves Tomo’s only hope. Together, the two pursue moneymaking scams – as well as the affections of local waitresses. ..read more »
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from 13,546 members
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Somers Town - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Perry Benson, Risade Campbell, Ireneusz Czop
Director: Shane Meadows
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Runaway Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) arrives in London with nothing but a bag and a swagger. Within hours, the bag has been stolen and a chance meeting with bored Polish teenager Marek proves Tomo’s only hope. Together, the two pursue moneymaking scams – as well as the affections of local waitresses. ..read more »
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from 2,051 members
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This Is England - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Stephen Graham, Frank Harper, Joseph Gilgun
Director: Shane Meadows
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Set during the summer of 1983, THIS IS ENGLAND is the poignant story of Shaun (Thomas Turgoos) an unpopular kid who discovers a sense of belonging among a group of peaceful skinheads. Having lost his father during the Falklands Conflict, Shaun sees something of a father figure in Woody (Joseph ..read more »
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from 2,753 members
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This Is England
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Stephen Graham, Frank Harper, Joseph Gilgun
Director: Shane Meadows
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July, 1983. School's out and 12 year-old Shaun (Turgoose) falls in with an amiable gang of skinheads and mods. Then National Front nut Combo (Graham) arrives on the scene, and being a little skinhead suddenly becomes far more than a fashion statement...
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from 56,826 members
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Dead Man's Shoes - Blu-ray
(2004)
Starring: Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell
Director: Shane Meadows
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Two brothers, Richard and Anthony, return to their hometown. Setting up camp in the hills overlooking the town, they reminisce over their past. But Richard has not returned for the memories, he's returned for revenge...
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from 1,864 member
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Dead Man's Shoes
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell
Director: Shane Meadows
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Two brothers, Richard and Anthony, return to their hometown. Setting up camp in the hills overlooking the town, they reminisce over their past. But Richard has not returned for the memories, he's returned for revenge...
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from 40,478 members
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Once Upon A Time In The Midlands
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Rhys Ifans, Kathy Burke
Director: Shane Meadows
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After his girlfriend turns down a marriage proposal by her decent-but-dull boyfriend, a small-time crook drifts back into town to win back his old flame and pull off one final crime. Will she follow her head or her heart - and can her new beau handle the stiff competition? This smooth operator has ..read more »
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from 7,864 members
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A Room For Romeo Brass
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Andrew Shim, Ben Marshall, Paddy Considine
Director: Shane Meadows
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In A ROOM FOR ROMEO BRASS, two teenage boys, Romeo (Andrew Shrim) and Knocks (Ben Marshall), whose families live in the same housing development in a small town in the Midlands, England, share a unique friendship. Making jokes that nobody else understands, fighting over little things, being ..read more »
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from 9,376 members
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Twenty Four Seven
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Bruce Jones, Frank Harper
Director: Shane Meadows
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From the poverty and despair of an English industrial town, one man with a dream (Bob Hoskins) forms a boxing club to give troubled teenagers a fighting chance. The lads learn lessons of self-respect and male bonding, but amidst the triumph of the biggest tournament of their lives, tragedy strikes. ..read more »
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from 4,058 members
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Small Time / Where's the Money Ronnie?
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Mat Hand, Shane Meadows, Jimmy Hynd
Director: Shane Meadows
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Acclaimed British director Shane Meadow's (Dead Man's Shoes, This is England) assured debut feature is a tale of petty crime in the suburbs of Nottingham which stars Meadows himself as Jumbo, leader of a ragtag band of small time crooks. Featuring energetic handheld camera work, brilliant comic ..read more »
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from 171 members
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Shane Meadows facts
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... of the subject matter, but rather the way in which the story is told: Director Shane Meadows gave the actors (adult and child alike) such a wide margin for error, that most...
