One Man's Diverse Wonderland; Michael Winterbottom's Projects Are As Impossible to Pigeon-Hole As the Director

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A near decade of prominence in the British film industry may have brought Michael Winterbottom's name as close to household status as any British film director can reasonably expect - but it hasn't left him any easier to pigeon-hole.

Genre holds no terrors for this most adventurous of home-grown talents. Winterbottom has put his own intense spin upon the requisite period dramas (Jude, The Claim) and contemporary relationship fables (I Want You, With Or Without You, Wonderland) - but he's also tackled serial killers (Butterfly Kiss), warzones (Welcome To Sarajevo), asylum seekers (In This World) and 20-odd years of British music history (Twenty-Four Hour Party People).

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One Man's Diverse Wonderland; Michael Winterbottom's Projects Are As Impossible to Pigeon-Hole As the Director

If the films themselves sometimes spin into murky self- indulgence, the scope of their director's ambition and curiosity is rare and striking. Not to be outdone by his back catalogue, Winterbottom's upcoming projects display even more diversity of tone and content. First, there's Code 46, released next week - a dreamy sci-fi romance co...

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