Check out these pics of Steve Coogan as 'The King of Soho' king Paul Raymond. In The Look of Love, Coogan plays the bed-hopping, moneymaking entrepreneur who went on to become Britain's richest man. Imogen Poots stars as his tragic daughter and there's support from Anna Friel as his long-suffering wife and Tamsin Egerton as his mistress Fiona Richmond.
- 10/10/2013
- Sky Movies
As is often the way with costume designers, Stephanie Collie is something of an unsung hero. We will not reel off her entire back catalogue, but it does include South Riding (2011, TV), Telstar (2008) Peter’s Friends (1992) and perhaps most exciting of all, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998).
Now, anyone old enough to remember when Lock, Stock arrived will remember just what an incredible influence its Mod inspired costumes had on the world of fashion. You could not pick up a men’s magazine of the time without seeing some guy in slim trousers and a jersey polo shirt. Stephanie Collie invented this look, thus providing one of the clearest examples of how costume design can transcend a movie and become something more. We would go so far as to say Stephanie Collie helped define an era.
The young cast of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels wearing the soon...
Now, anyone old enough to remember when Lock, Stock arrived will remember just what an incredible influence its Mod inspired costumes had on the world of fashion. You could not pick up a men’s magazine of the time without seeing some guy in slim trousers and a jersey polo shirt. Stephanie Collie invented this look, thus providing one of the clearest examples of how costume design can transcend a movie and become something more. We would go so far as to say Stephanie Collie helped define an era.
The young cast of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels wearing the soon...
- 8/29/2013
- by Christopher Laverty
- Clothes on Film
Paul Raymond biopic The Look Of Love tracks the King of Soho (played by Steve Coogan) from his stage show beginnings through to the building of a property and top-shelf magazine empire, highlighting three key female relationships in his life - with his wife Jean (Anna Friel), daughter Debbie (Imogen Poots) and lover Fiona Richmond (Tamsin Egerton) as a way of exploring both his attitude to life and love and the changing face of pornography in Britain. We spoke to director Michael Winterbottom about what drove him to take on the challenge of exploring the porn baron's life.
When the film premiered at Sundance, you said that it started off being really a movie you were thinking to make about different periods but ended up beign a biopic about him - can you tell us more about that?
What I was intending to say was...
When the film premiered at Sundance, you said that it started off being really a movie you were thinking to make about different periods but ended up beign a biopic about him - can you tell us more about that?
What I was intending to say was...
- 4/29/2013
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
After a miserable few months of suffering a pallid and grey smothering of inclement weather it seems altogether fitting that as the furtive golden orb peeks beyond the dissipating clouds the Sundance Film Festival returns to London. Now in it’s second year fans of alternative and independent cinema descend upon Greenwich’s O2 entertainment complex to enjoy a slightly more leftfield blend of fiction and non-fiction cinema, music and debate, conducted over four days of screenings, panels, live discussions and workshops. This is the first international deployment of Robert Redford’s Utah birthed Us champion of non-studio decreed film culture, a fertile ground of inspiration and innovation where the likes of Steven Soderbergh, Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith (to name just three) fumbled their first sweet kisses of wider media exposure. Almost three decades hence and the festival is still regarded as one of the most important platforms of film culture in the world,...
- 4/27/2013
- by John
- SoundOnSight
Sean Ellis’ Metro Manila is, so far, most likely to snap up a distribution deal. It’s a thriller in the same vein as City of God; a faux-gritty depiction of indigent struggle that can’t help but give way to generic signposting and neat resolutions. A passable genre entry professing to be something more, the film takes matters seriously enough to be considered as a critique on exploitation and corruption, though its priority is to simply entertain.
The film dives headfirst into its conceit in the opening minutes. Oscar Ramirez (Jake Macapagal) and his wife Mai (Althea Vega) promptly decide they’ve had quite enough of poverty-stricken existence in the Philippine mountains, and set forth with their two children to Metro Manila in the hopes of starting anew. What awaits them there is a less-than-idyllic arrangement; Ramirez joins an armoured truck company and naively walks into a setup with violent repercussions,...
The film dives headfirst into its conceit in the opening minutes. Oscar Ramirez (Jake Macapagal) and his wife Mai (Althea Vega) promptly decide they’ve had quite enough of poverty-stricken existence in the Philippine mountains, and set forth with their two children to Metro Manila in the hopes of starting anew. What awaits them there is a less-than-idyllic arrangement; Ramirez joins an armoured truck company and naively walks into a setup with violent repercussions,...
- 4/26/2013
- by Ed Doyle
- SoundOnSight
Steve Coogan has featured in a new clip from The Look of Love.
The Alan Partridge actor stars in the true life story of Paul Raymond, an entrepreneur who became the richest man in the UK after building a £1.5 billion empire of gentleman's clubs, porn magazines and nude theatres.
Coogan teams up with his 24 Hour Party People and The Trip director Michael Winterbottom for the comedy project, which also stars Anna Friel as Jean Raymond, Tamsin Egerton as Fiona Richmond and Imogen Poots as Raymond's daughter Debbie.
Stephen Fry, Chris Addison, Dara O'Briain, James Lance, Shirley Henderson, David Walliams, Matt Lucas, Simon Bird, Kieran O'Brien, Miles Jupp, Peter Wight, and Matthew Beard also have appearances in the film.
The Look of Love opens at UK cinemas on Friday, April 26.
Watch an exclusive Digital Spy clip from the film below:...
The Alan Partridge actor stars in the true life story of Paul Raymond, an entrepreneur who became the richest man in the UK after building a £1.5 billion empire of gentleman's clubs, porn magazines and nude theatres.
Coogan teams up with his 24 Hour Party People and The Trip director Michael Winterbottom for the comedy project, which also stars Anna Friel as Jean Raymond, Tamsin Egerton as Fiona Richmond and Imogen Poots as Raymond's daughter Debbie.
Stephen Fry, Chris Addison, Dara O'Briain, James Lance, Shirley Henderson, David Walliams, Matt Lucas, Simon Bird, Kieran O'Brien, Miles Jupp, Peter Wight, and Matthew Beard also have appearances in the film.
The Look of Love opens at UK cinemas on Friday, April 26.
Watch an exclusive Digital Spy clip from the film below:...
- 4/23/2013
- Digital Spy
Director: Michael Winterbottom; Screenwriter: Matt Greenhalgh; Starring: Steve Coogan, Imogen Poots, Anna Friel, Tamsin Egerton; Running time: 101 mins; Certificate: 18
24 Hour Party People's Michael Winterbottom and Steve Coogan head from Tony Wilson to Paul Raymond with their latest movie The Look of Love, a biopic of the porn impresario who transformed London's Soho district and eventually became one of the richest men in Britain.
Raymond's story is one of highs, lows, hedonism and personal tragedy. It's a classic tale we've seen done often before, and Look of Love certainly shares DNA with Winterbottom and Coogan's previous collaboration on Party People.
Rises and falls were also memorably depicted in Martin Scorsese films Goodfellas and Casino, but here Coogan's protagonist skirts nearer to the boundaries of what's legal and what's not. He opens the Raymond Revuebar strip club, a private members' venue, to navigate around strict laws on flashing flesh. Lord Chamberlain's theatre...
24 Hour Party People's Michael Winterbottom and Steve Coogan head from Tony Wilson to Paul Raymond with their latest movie The Look of Love, a biopic of the porn impresario who transformed London's Soho district and eventually became one of the richest men in Britain.
Raymond's story is one of highs, lows, hedonism and personal tragedy. It's a classic tale we've seen done often before, and Look of Love certainly shares DNA with Winterbottom and Coogan's previous collaboration on Party People.
Rises and falls were also memorably depicted in Martin Scorsese films Goodfellas and Casino, but here Coogan's protagonist skirts nearer to the boundaries of what's legal and what's not. He opens the Raymond Revuebar strip club, a private members' venue, to navigate around strict laws on flashing flesh. Lord Chamberlain's theatre...
- 4/22/2013
- Digital Spy
Steve Coogan's The Look of Love has premiered a new preview clip exclusively through Digital Spy.
The comedy-drama centres on the true life story of Paul Raymond, an entrepreneur who became the richest man in the UK after building a £1.5 billion empire on gentleman's clubs, porn magazines and nude theatres.
Coogan reunites with his 24 Hour Party People and The Trip director Michael Winterbottom for the film, which also stars Anna Friel as Jean Raymond, Tamsin Egerton as Fiona Richmond and Imogen Poots as Raymond's daughter Debbie.
The Look of Love will open in UK cinemas on April 26.
> 'Look of Love trailer: Steve Coogan back with Michael Winterbottom
> 'The Look of Love': Steve Coogan plays porn baron in new poster
Photo gallery - 'The Look of Love' in pictures:...
The comedy-drama centres on the true life story of Paul Raymond, an entrepreneur who became the richest man in the UK after building a £1.5 billion empire on gentleman's clubs, porn magazines and nude theatres.
Coogan reunites with his 24 Hour Party People and The Trip director Michael Winterbottom for the film, which also stars Anna Friel as Jean Raymond, Tamsin Egerton as Fiona Richmond and Imogen Poots as Raymond's daughter Debbie.
The Look of Love will open in UK cinemas on April 26.
> 'Look of Love trailer: Steve Coogan back with Michael Winterbottom
> 'The Look of Love': Steve Coogan plays porn baron in new poster
Photo gallery - 'The Look of Love' in pictures:...
- 4/12/2013
- Digital Spy
Severin Films is throwing a house party! The company revealed cover art and details for two upcoming DVD/Blu-ray bundles that should have fans of cult '70s horror and the UK's notorious “Video Nasties” pretty stoked: The controversial House on Straw Hill and occult whodunit The House of Seven Corpses. House on Straw Hill (originally titled Exposé) made the headlines following its release by landing on the UK's notorious “Video Nasties” list, joining dozens of other films banned by British censors for their extreme content. While it does have some gory moments, it's been heavily cut mostly due to explicit sex scenes between stars Udo Kier (a horror icon who's starred in Mark of the Devil and Andy Warhol's Dracula and recently Severin's own horror anthology The Theatre Bizarre), Linda Hayden (Blood on Satan's Claw) and '70s UK sex bomb Fiona Richmond. Severin recently obtained the only known...
- 3/29/2013
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
Severin Films will be releasing two cult horror films to Blu-ray and DVD on June 11th. Continue reading for more details and cover art for The House of Seven Corpses and House On Straw Hill:
The House of Seven Corpses: Hollywood legends John Ireland (Red River, Satan’s Cheerleaders), John Carradine (The Grapes of Wrath, Vampire Hookers) and Howard Hughes paramour Faith Domergue (Cult of the Cobra, This Island Earth) star in this much-loved 70s shocker about a film crew shooting an occult drama in a sinister manor (actually the former Utah Governor’s Mansion with its own grisly history of family bloodshed). Newly transferred in HD from original vault materials and featuring an exclusive archive interview with the legendary horror icon John Carradine as well as a revealing new audio commentary.
Bonus Features:
Exclusive Interview With Star John Carradine Audio Commentary With Associate Producer Gary Kent, Moderated...
The House of Seven Corpses: Hollywood legends John Ireland (Red River, Satan’s Cheerleaders), John Carradine (The Grapes of Wrath, Vampire Hookers) and Howard Hughes paramour Faith Domergue (Cult of the Cobra, This Island Earth) star in this much-loved 70s shocker about a film crew shooting an occult drama in a sinister manor (actually the former Utah Governor’s Mansion with its own grisly history of family bloodshed). Newly transferred in HD from original vault materials and featuring an exclusive archive interview with the legendary horror icon John Carradine as well as a revealing new audio commentary.
Bonus Features:
Exclusive Interview With Star John Carradine Audio Commentary With Associate Producer Gary Kent, Moderated...
- 3/29/2013
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Scandal, drugs, sex and champagne are just some of the lavish excesses that feature in The Look of Love; but behind all the glitz one questions whether there is anything there at all behind the surface. The Look of Love marks the fourth collaboration between Michael Winterbottom and Steve Coogan after the masterpiece 24 Hour Party People and the irreverently meta Cock and Bull Story and The Trip.
This new feature is more stylistically related to their debut collaboration but never reaches the highs of the Mad-Chester opus. The Look of Love is an entertaining romp but the talent involved and subject matter begs greatness. It never surpasses mediocrity. Winterbottom assembles a terrific cast and taps into the naughty spirit of Raymond. The audience is along for the ride and is dazzled by the lavish and excess but is left with emptiness much like its complicated hero.
Scandal, drugs, sex and champagne are just some of the lavish excesses that feature in The Look of Love; but behind all the glitz one questions whether there is anything there at all behind the surface. The Look of Love marks the fourth collaboration between Michael Winterbottom and Steve Coogan after the masterpiece 24 Hour Party People and the irreverently meta Cock and Bull Story and The Trip.
This new feature is more stylistically related to their debut collaboration but never reaches the highs of the Mad-Chester opus. The Look of Love is an entertaining romp but the talent involved and subject matter begs greatness. It never surpasses mediocrity. Winterbottom assembles a terrific cast and taps into the naughty spirit of Raymond. The audience is along for the ride and is dazzled by the lavish and excess but is left with emptiness much like its complicated hero.
- 3/12/2013
- by Gearoid Gillett
- Obsessed with Film
A biopic of Soho entrepreneur Paul Raymond, Michael Winterbottom's latest collaboration with Steve Coogan has a nifty, suitably neon-tinged poster, showing the lounge lizard at home with the ladies in his life.Left to right, it features Raymond's long-suffering wife, Jean (Anna Friel), his mistress Fiona Richmond (Tamsin Egerton), and his beloved daughter, Debbie (Imogen Poots). Amid all the movie's jiggly bits set in the fleshpots of 1960s and '70s Soho - Paul Raymond's famous Revuebar on Walker's Court is a Jabba's Palace of no-holds-barred naughtiness - there's a tender love story at play. Debbie and Paul, doting and damaged, are the king and princess united by an swelling business empire but divided by booze and drugs.The Love Of Love is out on April 26. Grab a copy of the new issue of Empire, onsale on February 28, for much more on the film, including interviews with Winterbottom and his cast.
- 2/26/2013
- EmpireOnline
Love Hurts: Winterbottom’s Biopic a By-the-Numbers Look at London’s Infamous King of Soho
Michael Winterbottom continues on with his whirlwind filmography, unleashing one of his most standard projects in years, The Look of Love, a biopic on the rise of Paul Raymond, coined the King of Soho for his elevation of adult entertainment out of the gutter and into the public imagination. A trailblazer in Britain’s history as far as censorship and heterosexual nudity goes, there’s no doubt that Raymond is indeed a prolific figure and his personal life has just enough tragedy to make for a doable life and times treatment. However, once we’re given a few telling details about Raymond, his profession, and the three most important women in his personal life, it’s not hard to predict how Raymond and his ladies all eventually end up. Neither an exercise about the...
Michael Winterbottom continues on with his whirlwind filmography, unleashing one of his most standard projects in years, The Look of Love, a biopic on the rise of Paul Raymond, coined the King of Soho for his elevation of adult entertainment out of the gutter and into the public imagination. A trailblazer in Britain’s history as far as censorship and heterosexual nudity goes, there’s no doubt that Raymond is indeed a prolific figure and his personal life has just enough tragedy to make for a doable life and times treatment. However, once we’re given a few telling details about Raymond, his profession, and the three most important women in his personal life, it’s not hard to predict how Raymond and his ladies all eventually end up. Neither an exercise about the...
- 1/27/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Michael Winterbottom has made a lot of goddamn movies. Unlike most directors, though, he doesn’t really have a type of film that he sticks to or is known for. This lack of a label allows him to move effortlessly from comedy to drama, political to pornographic artistic, period to contemporary, and once and a while he’ll even dip his toes into the biographical. It’s that last category that his latest film, The Look of Love, resides… alongside strong elements of the dramatic, comedic, period and artistic, of course. Steve Coogan plays real-life multi-millionaire Paul Raymond, a man whose immense fortune came on the backs of nude women dancing in his clubs, posing in his magazines and playing in his bed. Starting in the near present with the death of his daughter, the film flashes back to his early days as proprietor of a classy gentleman’s club and traces his rise in wealth and...
- 1/21/2013
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Steve Coogan stars in Michael Winterbottom's Look of Love Addiction wormed its way into all the films I saw yesterday - The Look Of Love, Austenland and The Spectacular Now, without being the sole focus of any of them. Perhaps surprisingly then, two of the films were comedies of sorts, and even the third had its moments.
Coke addiction seeps into the fabric of Michael Winterbottom's latest, The Look Of Love - a biopic of porn king Paul Raymond and the women in his life - wife Jean (Anna Friel), lover Fiona Richmond (Tamsin Egerton) and daughter Debbie (Imogen Poots), who died from an overdose. You can read the full review here.
At the Q&A after the film's premiere, Winterbottom said: "I think we tried to keep the film as accurate as possible. Of course, with any film like this you have to imagine what happens in private,...
Coke addiction seeps into the fabric of Michael Winterbottom's latest, The Look Of Love - a biopic of porn king Paul Raymond and the women in his life - wife Jean (Anna Friel), lover Fiona Richmond (Tamsin Egerton) and daughter Debbie (Imogen Poots), who died from an overdose. You can read the full review here.
At the Q&A after the film's premiere, Winterbottom said: "I think we tried to keep the film as accurate as possible. Of course, with any film like this you have to imagine what happens in private,...
- 1/21/2013
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Steve Coogan and Michael Winterbottom reunite for a biopic of "King of Soho" Paul Raymond that deftly juggles the serious, the seedy, and the spectre of Partridge
In The Look of Love, Steve Coogan's latest assignment is Paul Raymond, the Liverpool-born "King of Soho" whose great wealth and success were mirrored by personal tragedy. This is meaty material and Coogan carries the movie with aplomb, although Matt Greenhalgh's script dilutes what could have been a more deeply satisfying drama into something that feels episodic.
The movie charts Raymond's journey from the early years as a mind-reading variety act to his rise in London to become the adult entertainment impresario and publishing mogul who brought nudity into the mainstream. In 1992 he was called Britain's richest man; one month after the drug overdose that killed his beloved daughter Debbie.
There is much to tell in Raymond's story and Winterbottom and...
In The Look of Love, Steve Coogan's latest assignment is Paul Raymond, the Liverpool-born "King of Soho" whose great wealth and success were mirrored by personal tragedy. This is meaty material and Coogan carries the movie with aplomb, although Matt Greenhalgh's script dilutes what could have been a more deeply satisfying drama into something that feels episodic.
The movie charts Raymond's journey from the early years as a mind-reading variety act to his rise in London to become the adult entertainment impresario and publishing mogul who brought nudity into the mainstream. In 1992 he was called Britain's richest man; one month after the drug overdose that killed his beloved daughter Debbie.
There is much to tell in Raymond's story and Winterbottom and...
- 1/20/2013
- by Jeremy Kay
- The Guardian - Film News
Michael Winterbottom is busy gathering a solid cast to surround Steve Coogan for his latest film, King Of Soho. He’s just nabbed Anna Friel, Tamsin Egerton and Imogen Poots to co-star.Soho finds Winterbottom back in 24 Hour Party People mode, using the real story of a larger-than-life personality to drive a film. In this case, that is club owner and porn publisher Paul Raymond, whose power and influence across London’s seedier side grew between the late 1950s and the early 1990s. Kicking off his career as a 22-year-old mind reader on Clacton Pier, he graduated to running touring revue shows and launched the first British strip club. He also published the likes of Razzle and Mayfair. Dubbed the “King of Soho” by the press, he had run ins with the Lord Chamberlain’s office, the police, and was the target of more than one extortion attempt.Control writer...
- 2/19/2012
- EmpireOnline
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