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STEPHEN FREARS FILMOGRAPHY


2012 Lay The Favorite 2010 Tamara Drewe 2009 Chéri 2008 Skip Tracer (TV film) 2006 The Queen 2005 Mrs Henderson Presents 2003 The Deal (TV film) 2002 Dirty Pretty Things 2000 Liam 2000 Fail Safe (TV film) 2000 High Fidelity 1998 The Hi-Lo Country


1997 A Personal History Of British Cinema By Stephen Frears (TV documentary)


about America,’ but this seems an American film,” Frears says of Lay The Favorite. He says he is not a gambling man himself and


nor is he much interested in the psychology of gambling. “It’s based on a memoir and the real people


are very, very interesting,” he says of why he chose the project. “It’s not a conventional view of Las Vegas.” As well as plans to remake The Hit in Mexico,


Frears also hopes to make a film about Martin Luther King. “Films either catch the wind or they don’t,” he


says. “Quite a lot of my films have caught the wind… and quite a lot haven’t.” He was surprised The Queen (“a little British film”) was so successful but says he can come up


with counter examples of films he thought would capture the public’s imagination but failed to do so. (Mary Reilly, one of his bigger budgeted efforts, which starred Julia Roberts, would fall into that bracket.) Even though he says film-making hasn’t


become any easier with the years — “it’s a tough business. There’s a lot of money at stake and a lot of pressure. It has become worse” — his pleas- ure in the medium is self-evident. On the day I interview him, Europe is in


upheaval. The news is all about the possibility of a Greek financial default and the implosion of the euro. What is Frears’ own perspective on his place in Europe? “I am exactly like [my] country,” he says. “One foot in and one foot out!”


1996 The Van 1996 Mary Reilly 1993 The Snapper (TV film) 1992 Accidental Hero 1990 The Grifters 1988 Dangerous Liaisons 1987 Sammy And Rosie Get Laid 1987 Prick Up Your Ears 1987 December Flower (TV film) 1986 Walter And June (TV film) 1985 My Beautiful Laundrette 1984 The Hit 1983 Saigon: Year Of The Cat (TV film) 1983 The Last Company Car (TV film) 1982 Walter (TV film) 1979 Bloody Kids 1979 One Fine Day (TV film) 1979 Afternoon Off (TV film) 1978 Doris and Doreen (TV film) 1978 Me! I’m Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (TV film) 1977 Black Christmas (TV film) 1977 Last Summer (TV film) 1975 Three Men In A Boat (TV film) 1975 Daft As A Brush (TV film) 1973 The Cricket Match (TV film) 1972 A Day Out (TV film) 1971 Gumshoe


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