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Bob Stanley
Born December 25, 1964 (age 61)
Bob Stanley (born Robert Andrew Shukman; 25 December 1964) is a British musician, journalist, author, and film producer. He is a member of the indie pop group Saint Etienne and has had a parallel career as a music journalist and author, writing for NME, Melody Maker, Mojo, The Guardian and The Times, as well as writing several books on music and football. His second book, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The St…
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Asunder · 2016Asunder
2016
MovieDocumentary
Esther Johnson’s film uses local archive footage to convey the story of Sunderland's involvement in the First World War, from the men who fought in the fields to those who stayed behind to work in the region’s shipyards and munitions factories.
The Misadventures of Margaret · 1998The Misadventures of Margaret
★ 5.11998
MovieRomanceComedy
A timid, insecure popular author with an overly-attentive professor husband decide to write an erotic novel. With encouragement from her sister and a bi-sexual friend, she goes to France with the intent of doing research at an inn where a diary she had been using documented erotic encounters. Instead she finds the inn is now a cloister for singing nuns. However, a young, divorced sound engineer is also there taping the nuns. While attracted, she mostly succumbs only to new fantasies until he follows her home to New York.
Finisterre · 2003Finisterre
★ 8.52003
MovieDocumentary
London has always been a source of influence, inspiration and curiosity - Finisterre tries to identify the dreams that London holds for so many. Presented and scored by Saint Etienne, the film enraptures with a journey through the ultimate city of possibilities - from John Nash and Berthold Lubetkin to Hendon FC and Hampstead Heath via the New Piccadilly cafe. A genuinely moving meditation on the capital in all its tawdry glory, with extra features and deluxe booklet
London Conversations: The Best of Saint Etienne · 2008London Conversations: The Best of Saint Etienne
2008
MovieMusic
London Conversations: The Best of Saint Etienne is a video compilation album by the English electronic music group Saint Etienne
I've Been Trying to Tell You · 2021I've Been Trying to Tell You
★ 6.02021
MovieMusicDocumentary
Do you look back on the optimism of the 1997-2001 era as a lost golden age, or do you see it as a period of naïvety, delusion and folly? There’s a lot of nostalgia for the nineties at the moment, especially from people too young to remember it who see the decade as a simpler, pre-internet time. Modern nostalgia often draws on corporate American-90s mall culture, but what about British culture? With I’ve Been Trying To Tell You – made to accompany the Saint Etienne album of the same name – director Alasdair McLellan evokes the era through the fog of memory. The resulting film, shot in locations from Grangemouth to Portmeirion to Southampton, is both beautiful and enveloping.
Monty the Lamb · 2006Monty the Lamb
2006
MovieDocumentary
A dedicated Hendon Fotball Club fan dresses up as the club mascot for fun. He narrates the history of the club, while the visuals present the current state of the football club, the players and fans.
What Have You Done Today Mervyn Day? · 2005What Have You Done Today Mervyn Day?
★ 7.22005
MovieDocumentary
Shot during the summer of 2005, this enigmatic film was the second collaboration between Saint Etienne and director Paul Kelly. It follows a young paperboy's adventure across London's last remaining wilderness in the Lea Valley on the eve of the Olympic development. A poetic ode to a metropolitan hinterland that has been forever changed by the impact of the 2012 Olympics games.
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