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
Steve Coogan passion project The Look of Love (2012) reunites the British actor and comic with longtime collaborator Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People, A Cock and Bull Story, The Trip) for the real life story of the 'King of Soho', the legendary gentleman's club owner and pornographer Paul Raymond. To celebrate the DVD and Blu-ray release of Winterbottom's period dramedy, we've kindly been provided with Three DVD copies of the film to give away to our lucky readers, thanks to StudioCanal. This is an exclusive competition for our Facebook and Twitter fans, so if you haven't already, 'Like' us at facebook.com/CineVueUK or follow us @CineVue before answering the question below.
Charting his life from the late 1950s, the film follows Raymond as he progresses up the financial and social ladder, accumulating wealth and notoriety. In 1958 he opened London's first strip club, soon after taking over all of Soho...
Charting his life from the late 1950s, the film follows Raymond as he progresses up the financial and social ladder, accumulating wealth and notoriety. In 1958 he opened London's first strip club, soon after taking over all of Soho...
- 8/22/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
★★☆☆☆ The first offering in a busy year for Steve Coogan - and newly released this week on DVD and Blu-ray - The Look of Love (2013) is the latest collaboration between the comedian and genre-hopping British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom. This fruitful creative partnership has, in the past, offered up such bounties as 24 Hour Party People, A Cock and Bull Story and hit BBC Two series The Trip. Unfortunately, not even 'WinterCoogan' can make a sympathetic protagonist out of Soho sleaze king Paul Raymond, a largely detestable figure who - according to this biopic, at least - drove those around him to despair and beyond.
Entering into a life of grime as a mind-reader in a cabaret act, Liverpudlian chancer Raymond (Coogan) hit upon the bright idea of performing with nude assistants. Struck by the sudden revelation that men enjoy being in the company of naked women, Raymond set about building an empire of gentleman's clubs,...
Entering into a life of grime as a mind-reader in a cabaret act, Liverpudlian chancer Raymond (Coogan) hit upon the bright idea of performing with nude assistants. Struck by the sudden revelation that men enjoy being in the company of naked women, Raymond set about building an empire of gentleman's clubs,...
- 8/20/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Beginning in the late 1950s, into the 60’s, predominantly through the mid to late 70’s, then into the early 90’s, costume designer Stephanie Collie’s work for The Look of Love covers several distinct periods.
This is the true story of King of Soho billionaire Paul Raymond (Steve Coogan) told via the many women in his life. Helpfully these women confirm to a specific body type which is still relatable as the model ideal today, i.e. very slender or the ‘no-body body’. This means that all the garments on screen look fantastic. They are costumes above all but still relevant as fashion; the 60’s especially still informs contemporary style for women’s clothes. The 60’s and 70’s will always be one of the fondest eras to recreate on screen, yet also one of the trickiest. Potentially The Look of Love was only a feather boa away from being fancy dress.
This is the true story of King of Soho billionaire Paul Raymond (Steve Coogan) told via the many women in his life. Helpfully these women confirm to a specific body type which is still relatable as the model ideal today, i.e. very slender or the ‘no-body body’. This means that all the garments on screen look fantastic. They are costumes above all but still relevant as fashion; the 60’s especially still informs contemporary style for women’s clothes. The 60’s and 70’s will always be one of the fondest eras to recreate on screen, yet also one of the trickiest. Potentially The Look of Love was only a feather boa away from being fancy dress.
- 8/14/2013
- 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
Watching a preview of The Look of Love, the Paul Raymond biopic due in cinemas this week, was a strange experience for me. For two decades, from the mid- Eighties to the mid-Noughties, as well as freelancing for various media, I edited a French men's magazine for the King of Soho, though in the office, we never called him that, just PR. The Look of Love is mostly set in the Sixties and Seventies, but so little had changed in the company's cluttered Soho offices, lovingly re-created by Michael Winterbottom's production team, that the film conjured up vivid memories of my time in PR's employ.
- 4/23/2013
- The Independent - Film
Steve Coogan reteams with director Michael Winterbottom - director of 24 Hour Party People, The Trip, A Cock And Bull Story, etc - for the upcoming The Look Of Love, a biopic of British pornographer Paul Raymond.After starting his show business career as a mind-reader in a cabaret act, Paul Raymond went on to become Britain's richest man and a modern King Midas. With an entrepreneurial eye and a realisation that sex sells, he began building his empire of gentleman's clubs, porn magazines and nude theatre - provoking outrage and titillation in equal measure. Raymond's personal life was as colourful as his revue shows. His marriage to Jean, a nude dancer and choreographer, ended in a difficult divorce when he met Fiona - a glamour...
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- 4/23/2013
- Screen Anarchy
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
Michael Winterbottom and Steve Coogan are reuniting this year on The Look of Love, more than a decade after bringing 24 Hour Party People to the big screen.
The film has already debuted out in Sundance, and is hitting the UK on Friday, after an appearance at Sundance London this week.
The first trailer gave us a good look at what we can expect, and the early reviews have been praising Coogan for his performance as the King of Soho, Paul Raymond. And with its release date just days away, StudioCanal have released a new clip online.
After starting his show business career as a mind-reader in a cabaret act, Paul Raymond went on to become Britain’s richest man and a modern King Midas. With an entrepreneurial eye and a realisation that sex sells, he began building his empire of gentleman’s clubs, porn magazines and nude theatre – provoking outrage and titillation in equal measure.
The film has already debuted out in Sundance, and is hitting the UK on Friday, after an appearance at Sundance London this week.
The first trailer gave us a good look at what we can expect, and the early reviews have been praising Coogan for his performance as the King of Soho, Paul Raymond. And with its release date just days away, StudioCanal have released a new clip online.
After starting his show business career as a mind-reader in a cabaret act, Paul Raymond went on to become Britain’s richest man and a modern King Midas. With an entrepreneurial eye and a realisation that sex sells, he began building his empire of gentleman’s clubs, porn magazines and nude theatre – provoking outrage and titillation in equal measure.
- 4/23/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Welcome return to commercial form for actor Gerard Butler, but overall audience figures are down thanks to the spring sunshine
The winner: sunshine
The weekend before a big blockbuster is often quiet at the box office, as distributors are reluctant to release a major film, only to see it get clobbered seven days later. Consequently, with the summer blockbuster season officially kicking off this Thursday with Iron Man 3, the market is relatively becalmed. Even so, cinema owners could have done without the spring sunshine that finally arrived across much of the country on Saturday and Sunday, reducing audience numbers especially for matinees and early evening showtimes.
Including Wednesday/Thursday previews totalling £652,000, Olympus Has Fallen opened at the chart summit with £2.25m. Ignoring the previews, top title remains Tom Cruise sci-fi Oblivion, with £1.66m. For Gerard Butler, Olympus represents a welcome return to commercial form after his last film Playing for Keeps...
The winner: sunshine
The weekend before a big blockbuster is often quiet at the box office, as distributors are reluctant to release a major film, only to see it get clobbered seven days later. Consequently, with the summer blockbuster season officially kicking off this Thursday with Iron Man 3, the market is relatively becalmed. Even so, cinema owners could have done without the spring sunshine that finally arrived across much of the country on Saturday and Sunday, reducing audience numbers especially for matinees and early evening showtimes.
Including Wednesday/Thursday previews totalling £652,000, Olympus Has Fallen opened at the chart summit with £2.25m. Ignoring the previews, top title remains Tom Cruise sci-fi Oblivion, with £1.66m. For Gerard Butler, Olympus represents a welcome return to commercial form after his last film Playing for Keeps...
- 4/23/2013
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
Formerly marketed under the (far better) title The King of Soho, Michael Winterbottom’s fourth collaboration with Steve Coogan charts the life of the late Paul Raymond; at one point the richest man in Britain. Like the current holder of that title, Lakshmi Mittal, Raymond’s fortune grew from small beginnings to market dominance, but where Mittal’s success came with steel, Raymond’s empire was founded on sex.
Liverpool-born Raymond (Coogan) broke into showbiz as a mind reader on Clacton Pier (ooh, the glamour…) before starting a touring show with nude models posing as statues. After opening Britain’s first strip club – the Raymond Revuebar – as a means of circumventing government rules about decency in the theatre, Raymond’s porn portfolio grew with bestselling magazines – but his real power came in property. He landed his monarchical nickname after buying up half of Soho, all with an eye on handing...
Liverpool-born Raymond (Coogan) broke into showbiz as a mind reader on Clacton Pier (ooh, the glamour…) before starting a touring show with nude models posing as statues. After opening Britain’s first strip club – the Raymond Revuebar – as a means of circumventing government rules about decency in the theatre, Raymond’s porn portfolio grew with bestselling magazines – but his real power came in property. He landed his monarchical nickname after buying up half of Soho, all with an eye on handing...
- 4/23/2013
- by Lewis Bazley
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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
For four days beginning Thursday 25 April, the London o2 in Greenwich hosts Robert Redford’s 2013 Sundance London Film and Music Festival, a celebration of independent cinema both home-grown and stateside, flavoured with live music performances, panel discussions, and Q&A sessions with filmmakers.
This year’s selection includes some familiar faces: Jeff Nichols’ 2012 Cannes competitor Mud resurfaces ahead of its UK release next month, while Sundance regular Lynn Shelton returns with Touchy Feely, about a massage therapist afflicted with a sudden aversion to bodily contact. Bonds of all kinds are an overarching theme of the main programme, broken in divorce (A.C.O.D.) strengthened in friendship (The Kings of Summer and The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete) and unearthed in the unlikeliest of places (Emmanuel and the Truth About Fishes).
If familial bonds recur frequently throughout the selection, there’s none more unconventional than that between smut baron...
This year’s selection includes some familiar faces: Jeff Nichols’ 2012 Cannes competitor Mud resurfaces ahead of its UK release next month, while Sundance regular Lynn Shelton returns with Touchy Feely, about a massage therapist afflicted with a sudden aversion to bodily contact. Bonds of all kinds are an overarching theme of the main programme, broken in divorce (A.C.O.D.) strengthened in friendship (The Kings of Summer and The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete) and unearthed in the unlikeliest of places (Emmanuel and the Truth About Fishes).
If familial bonds recur frequently throughout the selection, there’s none more unconventional than that between smut baron...
- 4/21/2013
- by Ed Doyle
- SoundOnSight
London, Apr 21: Anna Friel, who stripped in her new movie 'The look of Love' without any apprehensions, has revealed that she couldn't wait for her male co-stars to get naked as well.
The 36-year-old actress said that she thought that it would be funny and fabulous if the men had to strip too but it didn't happen, the Sun reported.
The film, which is set to release on Friday, has no shortage of nudity or sex scenes and is based on the life of club owner and porn baron Paul Raymond, played by comedian Steve Coogan, from the 1950s through to the 1980s. (Ani)...
The 36-year-old actress said that she thought that it would be funny and fabulous if the men had to strip too but it didn't happen, the Sun reported.
The film, which is set to release on Friday, has no shortage of nudity or sex scenes and is based on the life of club owner and porn baron Paul Raymond, played by comedian Steve Coogan, from the 1950s through to the 1980s. (Ani)...
- 4/21/2013
- by Meeta Kabra
- RealBollywood.com
Robert Redford plays an ageing anti-war activist in his latest movie, The Company You Keep – just one more incarnation in an ever-changing image
Robert Redford's new film sees the Hollywood liberal play a craggy radical, hiding away from a criminally subversive past under an assumed name. Once the FBI rumbles him, the agents on his trail spend some time comparing the image of his lined face to that of his much younger, 1970s, moustachioed self.
Cinema audiences across the world have travelled down that same long, ageing trail with Redford too, watching as his luminous youth in the role of Bubber in the 1966 film The Chase was gradually replaced, first by the poised cynicism of The Candidate and then by the stately leading man in Out of Africa or the worn-out sleaze of his Indecent Proposal to Demi Moore. Yet, as a man, Redford's radical zeal remains undimmed.
The Company You Keep,...
Robert Redford's new film sees the Hollywood liberal play a craggy radical, hiding away from a criminally subversive past under an assumed name. Once the FBI rumbles him, the agents on his trail spend some time comparing the image of his lined face to that of his much younger, 1970s, moustachioed self.
Cinema audiences across the world have travelled down that same long, ageing trail with Redford too, watching as his luminous youth in the role of Bubber in the 1966 film The Chase was gradually replaced, first by the poised cynicism of The Candidate and then by the stately leading man in Out of Africa or the worn-out sleaze of his Indecent Proposal to Demi Moore. Yet, as a man, Redford's radical zeal remains undimmed.
The Company You Keep,...
- 4/20/2013
- by Vanessa Thorpe, Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Anna Friel has said that the nudity in The Look of Love was "not such a big deal".
The actress, who stars opposite Steve Coogan in the Paul Raymond biopic, told Pa that she was not concerned about undressing in front of the camera.
Friel stars as Jean Raymond, wife of Soho porn baron Paul, who worked as choreographer for strip shows and appeared in X-rated photoshoots for men's magazines.
However, she explained that being naked around the cast and crew was not a problem for her.
The actress said: "For my part when I got to it, I was so used to it. It's not such a big deal, I think we've become a bit more relaxed now with our approach to nudity and nakedness."
Reflecting on the time period of the film, which follows the couple from the 1950s to 1980s, Friel said: "Strangely enough I felt more liberated,...
The actress, who stars opposite Steve Coogan in the Paul Raymond biopic, told Pa that she was not concerned about undressing in front of the camera.
Friel stars as Jean Raymond, wife of Soho porn baron Paul, who worked as choreographer for strip shows and appeared in X-rated photoshoots for men's magazines.
However, she explained that being naked around the cast and crew was not a problem for her.
The actress said: "For my part when I got to it, I was so used to it. It's not such a big deal, I think we've become a bit more relaxed now with our approach to nudity and nakedness."
Reflecting on the time period of the film, which follows the couple from the 1950s to 1980s, Friel said: "Strangely enough I felt more liberated,...
- 4/20/2013
- Digital Spy
Rebellion | Promised Land | Evil Dead | Olympus Has Fallen | Love Is All You Need | Me And You | F*ck For Forest | Bait | The Words
Rebellion (15)
(Mathieu Kassovitz, 2011, Fra) Mathieu Kassovitz, Iabe Lapacas, Malik Zidi. 135 mins
Working with a real-life 1980s incident in New Caledonia (not dissimilar to a French Falklands), Kassovitz crafts a thoughtful thriller with no heroes, only good intentions compromised by colonialist mistrust and distant politics. His negotiator is set between a hair-triggered French military and separatist rebels, but with an election back home, not everyone wants a peaceful outcome.
Promised Land (15)
(Gus Van Sant, 2012, Us/UAE) Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Frances McDormand. 107 mins
With fracking as the central concern, this finds it hard to avoid being an "issue movie", but there's some human drama to it. Damon's gas agent comes to an archetypal small town with a buyout in mind, but the locals and their country ways get to him.
Rebellion (15)
(Mathieu Kassovitz, 2011, Fra) Mathieu Kassovitz, Iabe Lapacas, Malik Zidi. 135 mins
Working with a real-life 1980s incident in New Caledonia (not dissimilar to a French Falklands), Kassovitz crafts a thoughtful thriller with no heroes, only good intentions compromised by colonialist mistrust and distant politics. His negotiator is set between a hair-triggered French military and separatist rebels, but with an election back home, not everyone wants a peaceful outcome.
Promised Land (15)
(Gus Van Sant, 2012, Us/UAE) Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Frances McDormand. 107 mins
With fracking as the central concern, this finds it hard to avoid being an "issue movie", but there's some human drama to it. Damon's gas agent comes to an archetypal small town with a buyout in mind, but the locals and their country ways get to him.
- 4/20/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Steve Coogan is shortly to appear on the big screen in the role of Paul Raymond, landlord supreme of London's Soho district, magazine publisher and all-round entrepeneur?
Steve Coogan in character as Paul Raymond for 'The Look of Love'
But what attracted him to the role of the porn baron sans pareil? Well, at least he's honest...
Watch him digging deep for an explanation above.
In pictures: Coogan and other stars at London's premiere of 'The Look of Love'...
Steve Coogan in character as Paul Raymond for 'The Look of Love'
But what attracted him to the role of the porn baron sans pareil? Well, at least he's honest...
Watch him digging deep for an explanation above.
In pictures: Coogan and other stars at London's premiere of 'The Look of Love'...
- 4/18/2013
- by The Huffington Post UK
- Huffington Post
Anna Friel wanted the men on 'The Look of Love' to get naked. The 36-year-old actress plays Jean Raymond, the wife of British porn baron Paul Raymond, in the biopic and had to get nude on screen to re-enact a photo shoot her character took part in for the adult magazine Men Only. She thinks it's a shame all the nudity in the movie is of the female variety and wishes some of her male co-stars - who include Steve Coogan - had stripped off. Talking at the film's premiere at The Curzon cinema in London's Soho district on Monday...
- 4/16/2013
- Virgin Media - Celebrity
Anna Friel wanted the men on 'The Look of Love' to get naked. The 36-year-old actress plays Jean Raymond, the wife of British porn baron Paul Raymond, in the biopic and had to get nude on screen to re-enact a photo shoot her character took part in for the adult magazine Men Only. She thinks it's a shame all the nudity in the movie is of the female variety and wishes some of her male co-stars - who include Steve Coogan - had stripped off. Talking at the film's premiere at The Curzon cinema in London's Soho district on Monday night (15.04.2013), she told Bang Showbiz: 'I remember when I was posing, I thought wouldn't it be funny...
- 4/16/2013
- Monsters and Critics
This evening, Colin and Ben attended the UK premiere of Steve Coogan’s new movie, The Look of Love. They got to chat with Coogan to find out how he played the role of Paul Raymond and what it was that drew him into play another true-life character. Ben also spoke to Dara O’Briain who plays ‘Comedian’ and Chris Addison who played the Tony Power. Ben asks about the future of The Thick of It and whether we’d see a revival.
We also interview Director Michael Winterbottom who talks about working in Soho and how they avoided the use of pornography in a movie based around a profilic pornographer, James Lance who plays Carl Snitcher and Author of The Look of Love: The Life and Times of Paul Raymond, Soho’s King of Clubs, Paul Willetts.
The Look of Love tells the story of Paul Raymond (Coogan), a...
We also interview Director Michael Winterbottom who talks about working in Soho and how they avoided the use of pornography in a movie based around a profilic pornographer, James Lance who plays Carl Snitcher and Author of The Look of Love: The Life and Times of Paul Raymond, Soho’s King of Clubs, Paul Willetts.
The Look of Love tells the story of Paul Raymond (Coogan), a...
- 4/15/2013
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Michael Winterbottom’s biopic of the porn and property magnate Paul Raymond would like to have us believe that Raymond (who was one of Britain’s richest men) was Soho’s answer to Citizen Kane. The film, scripted by Matt Greenhalgh, even has an elaborate flashback-based screenplay similar to the one in Kane. Its problem is that Raymond is too sleazy, comic and superficial a character to take on any kind of tragic grandeur.
- 4/15/2013
- The Independent - Film
The actor's attempt to play Soho sex king Paul Raymond should have worked on paper – they share a similar look and mannerisms – but there is only one role he can play
Steve Coogan looks a bit like Paul Raymond; the two men even share the same adenoidal tic. So Coogan ought to be better placed to play Raymond in a biopic than, say, Meryl Streep was, to play Thatcher. Yet during The Look of Love, it's not the legendary entrepreneur of erotica who fills the screen: it's Alan Partridge.
The character's gestures, mannerisms and intonation hail from the Norwich ring road, not Walker's Court. More importantly, so does his soul. The Look of Love seeks to portray its protagonist as a libertine tragically confounded by doomed paternal love. Coogan's Raymond meets his daughter's demise with an agonised show of remorse; yet his pained expression doesn't have you reaching for your hanky.
Steve Coogan looks a bit like Paul Raymond; the two men even share the same adenoidal tic. So Coogan ought to be better placed to play Raymond in a biopic than, say, Meryl Streep was, to play Thatcher. Yet during The Look of Love, it's not the legendary entrepreneur of erotica who fills the screen: it's Alan Partridge.
The character's gestures, mannerisms and intonation hail from the Norwich ring road, not Walker's Court. More importantly, so does his soul. The Look of Love seeks to portray its protagonist as a libertine tragically confounded by doomed paternal love. Coogan's Raymond meets his daughter's demise with an agonised show of remorse; yet his pained expression doesn't have you reaching for your hanky.
- 4/15/2013
- by David Cox
- The Guardian - Film News
News Den Of Geek 15 Apr 2013 - 07:04
Lots of films make their UK bow at the upcoming Sundance London festival. Here's our round-up...
Heading to the O2 in London from 25-28 April 2013 is the second Sundance London event, a weekend of music, independent films, panel discussions, events, and no shortage of coffee. Good coffee, we hope.
The organisers have announced that they've added a trio of new films to the line-up for the weekend too. Thus, playing will be Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award winner Metro Manila, about a family moving from the poverty of the rice fields to the big city of Manila. That one's been directed by Sean Ellis.
Then there's Jeff Nichols' Mud, which stars Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon. It's about a pair of teenagers who find a fugitive, and look to help him evade the bounty hunters after him.
The third...
Lots of films make their UK bow at the upcoming Sundance London festival. Here's our round-up...
Heading to the O2 in London from 25-28 April 2013 is the second Sundance London event, a weekend of music, independent films, panel discussions, events, and no shortage of coffee. Good coffee, we hope.
The organisers have announced that they've added a trio of new films to the line-up for the weekend too. Thus, playing will be Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award winner Metro Manila, about a family moving from the poverty of the rice fields to the big city of Manila. That one's been directed by Sean Ellis.
Then there's Jeff Nichols' Mud, which stars Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon. It's about a pair of teenagers who find a fugitive, and look to help him evade the bounty hunters after him.
The third...
- 4/15/2013
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
London, April 15: Actress Tamsin Egerton says she has warned her father against watching her raunchy performance in "The Look of Love", a biopic on strip club mogul Paul Raymond.
The film is directed by Michael Winterbottom.
The 24-year-old said she won't be inviting him to see the film as she wouldn't want him to see her nude on screen, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
"I am completely relaxed about the content of the film; there's a great deal of sex on television and the internet where it's not framed in any sort of content, which I find a lot more offensive than a film based on a real man's emotional journey with his.
The film is directed by Michael Winterbottom.
The 24-year-old said she won't be inviting him to see the film as she wouldn't want him to see her nude on screen, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
"I am completely relaxed about the content of the film; there's a great deal of sex on television and the internet where it's not framed in any sort of content, which I find a lot more offensive than a film based on a real man's emotional journey with his.
- 4/15/2013
- by Abhijeet Sen
- RealBollywood.com
Marking the fourth collaboration between director Michael Winterbottom and actor Steve Coogan, "The Look of Love" is based on the true story of porn baron Paul Raymond. Raymond amassed over $1 billion through purchasing prime real estate in London's Soho, becoming Britain's richest man and earning the title "The King of Soho." Anna Friel plays his wife Jean, who posed for some of Raymond's porno shoots and ultimately received a record divorce-settlement. Their daughter is played by charming and soon-to-be everywhere Imogen Poots. You can peak in at the couple's relationship in the clip below. Premiering at this year's Sundance Film Festival, our critic was not that impressed with "The Look of Love," writing, "These vapid characters aren't people we want to root for, let alone spend much time with." Although in the film's defense, Coogan has done an amazing job with vapid characters in other Winterbottom films -- a TV...
- 4/14/2013
- by Diana Drumm
- The Playlist
The Place Beyond The Pines | Oblivion | Simon Killer | The Gatekeepers | Flying Blind | Scary Movie 5 | Bafta Shorts 2013 | First Position | Theorem | Nautanki Saala!
The Place Beyond The Pines (15)
(Derek Cianfrance, 2012, Us) Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper. 141 mins
Fans might be disappointed to hear it, but this has bigger ambitions than just drooling over Ryan Gosling. His criminal stunt-biker is merely one part of a weighty cross-generational triptych: a study of fathers, sons, sins and justice that seeks a place beyond standard storytelling structure, even if there's not quite enough meat on the bones, especially of the Gosling variety.
Oblivion (12A)
(Joseph Kosinski, 2013, Us) Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko. 125 mins
Cruise is in his familiar anchorman role for this big-budget sci-fi, set on a devastated future Earth where all is not what it seems with his drone repairman's job. It's potentially a Philip K Dick-style thriller, though the lack of advance screenings is a danger sign.
The Place Beyond The Pines (15)
(Derek Cianfrance, 2012, Us) Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper. 141 mins
Fans might be disappointed to hear it, but this has bigger ambitions than just drooling over Ryan Gosling. His criminal stunt-biker is merely one part of a weighty cross-generational triptych: a study of fathers, sons, sins and justice that seeks a place beyond standard storytelling structure, even if there's not quite enough meat on the bones, especially of the Gosling variety.
Oblivion (12A)
(Joseph Kosinski, 2013, Us) Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko. 125 mins
Cruise is in his familiar anchorman role for this big-budget sci-fi, set on a devastated future Earth where all is not what it seems with his drone repairman's job. It's potentially a Philip K Dick-style thriller, though the lack of advance screenings is a danger sign.
- 4/13/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
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
Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January, the latest effort from the prolific Michael Winterbottom didn't exactly win our man on the ground over (he called it "a shallow misfire"). Nonetheless a swinging Steve Coogan-lead voyage into smut is still something many will likely be curious about and this first clip from "The Look Of Love" seems to capture both the wit and certain other pleasures some might derive from the movie. The picture is a biopic of the real life Paul Raymond, a pornographer, strip club owner and sleazy impresario who managed to accumulate a fortune of close to £650 million (or just over a billion dollars) after buying up property in the seedy central London area of Soho. He owes it all to the skin trade, which as you'll see here, he has a real knack for. The rest of the cast is rounded up by some...
- 4/11/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Spring Breakers | A Late Quartet | The Expatriate | Thursday Till Sunday | Dark Skies | The Odd Life Of Timothy Green | Papdopoulos & Sons | All Things To All Men | Home
Spring Breakers (18)
(Harmony Korine, 2012, Us) Selena Gomez, James Franco, Gucci Mane. 94 mins
The new American dream/nightmare of the endless beach party is both celebrated and satirised in Korine's woozy Florida tale. The story is fittingly loose – four naive teens turn to criminal means to fund their hedonism – but it's more of an experience: a dubstep-tracked collage of neon, Day-Glo and tanned flesh, all facilitated by Franco's fantastically watchable gangsta rapper.
A Late Quartet (15)
(Yaron Zilberman, 2012, Us) Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener. 106 mins
A respected New York string quartet is struck by an excess of issues here: terminal illness, infidelity, professional jealousy, you name it. Without the distinguished cast, its highbrow melodramas would seem ludicrous.
The Expatriate (15)
(Philipp Stölzl, 2012, Us/Bel/Can/UK) Aaron Eckhart,...
Spring Breakers (18)
(Harmony Korine, 2012, Us) Selena Gomez, James Franco, Gucci Mane. 94 mins
The new American dream/nightmare of the endless beach party is both celebrated and satirised in Korine's woozy Florida tale. The story is fittingly loose – four naive teens turn to criminal means to fund their hedonism – but it's more of an experience: a dubstep-tracked collage of neon, Day-Glo and tanned flesh, all facilitated by Franco's fantastically watchable gangsta rapper.
A Late Quartet (15)
(Yaron Zilberman, 2012, Us) Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener. 106 mins
A respected New York string quartet is struck by an excess of issues here: terminal illness, infidelity, professional jealousy, you name it. Without the distinguished cast, its highbrow melodramas would seem ludicrous.
The Expatriate (15)
(Philipp Stölzl, 2012, Us/Bel/Can/UK) Aaron Eckhart,...
- 4/6/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Steve Coogan gets sleazy in Soho, Almodóvar takes to the air, Kirk and Spock return - and DiCaprio gets the party started
Spring Breakers
(dir. Harmony Korine)
Harmony Korine beguiles some and infuriates others. The film-maker who made his name in the 1990s as the writer of the controversial Kids now returns with what looks like outrageous trashsploitation: four hot young women rob a restaurant to fund their sybaritic "spring break" and get into a serious hot-tub of trouble. Is this Korine's bid for mainstream glory? 5 April.
The Place Beyond the Pines
(dir. Derek Cianfrance)
Derek Cianfrance, who made 2010's much-admired Blue Valentine, returns with a very different type of drama. Ryan Gosling is Luke, a stunt motorcyclist in a carnival who uses his skills to rob banks – but only to provide for the child he had with Romina (played by Gosling's real-life partner Eva Mendes). Luke finds himself pursued by a steely police officer,...
Spring Breakers
(dir. Harmony Korine)
Harmony Korine beguiles some and infuriates others. The film-maker who made his name in the 1990s as the writer of the controversial Kids now returns with what looks like outrageous trashsploitation: four hot young women rob a restaurant to fund their sybaritic "spring break" and get into a serious hot-tub of trouble. Is this Korine's bid for mainstream glory? 5 April.
The Place Beyond the Pines
(dir. Derek Cianfrance)
Derek Cianfrance, who made 2010's much-admired Blue Valentine, returns with a very different type of drama. Ryan Gosling is Luke, a stunt motorcyclist in a carnival who uses his skills to rob banks – but only to provide for the child he had with Romina (played by Gosling's real-life partner Eva Mendes). Luke finds himself pursued by a steely police officer,...
- 4/1/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
In The House | Trance | Good Vibrations | 12 In A Box | The Host | GI Joe: Retaliation | One Mile Away | King Of The Travellers | We Went To War | Point Blank | Finding Nemo 3D
In The House (15)
(François Ozon, 2012, Fra) Fabrice Luchini, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ernst Umhauer, Emmanuelle Seigner. 105 mins
A French teacher is instantly drawn in by a student's essay on infiltrating his friend's family, and so are we. Before we know it, we're swept off on a self-reflexive journey into storytelling, voyeurism and ethical boundaries. Both the boy's story and the movie struggle to find an ending, but it's another distinctly "Ozonian" comedy-thriller.
Trance (15)
(Danny Boyle, 2013, UK) James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Vincent Cassel. 101 mins
Boyle chucks everything he can (maybe too much) at this twisty, visceral art-heist thriller, which hinges on McAvoy's hypnosis to reveal the whereabouts of a stolen Goya painting. The result is more of a Jackson Pollock.
Good Vibrations (15)
(Lisa Barros D'Sa,...
In The House (15)
(François Ozon, 2012, Fra) Fabrice Luchini, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ernst Umhauer, Emmanuelle Seigner. 105 mins
A French teacher is instantly drawn in by a student's essay on infiltrating his friend's family, and so are we. Before we know it, we're swept off on a self-reflexive journey into storytelling, voyeurism and ethical boundaries. Both the boy's story and the movie struggle to find an ending, but it's another distinctly "Ozonian" comedy-thriller.
Trance (15)
(Danny Boyle, 2013, UK) James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson, Vincent Cassel. 101 mins
Boyle chucks everything he can (maybe too much) at this twisty, visceral art-heist thriller, which hinges on McAvoy's hypnosis to reveal the whereabouts of a stolen Goya painting. The result is more of a Jackson Pollock.
Good Vibrations (15)
(Lisa Barros D'Sa,...
- 3/30/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
The Sundance Institute and London’s O2 venue announced this week the programme of panels, feature films and short films for the second Sundance London film and music festival which is schduled to run from the 25-28 April. The Sundance Institute, which annually presents the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, U.S.A., selected the film and panel programming, bringing its unique blend of indepedeant cinema and music to the heart of London. The programme continues its 2012 focus on presenting new work by independent filmmakers and exploring the interplay between independent film and music.
The programme announced today includes 18 feature films and nine short films across four sections, including a new UK Spotlight. Twenty-three films will make their international, European or UK premieres at Sundance London. Ten are by female filmmakers and six are by first-time feature filmmakers. The films collectively received 12 awards when they premiered at the...
The programme announced today includes 18 feature films and nine short films across four sections, including a new UK Spotlight. Twenty-three films will make their international, European or UK premieres at Sundance London. Ten are by female filmmakers and six are by first-time feature filmmakers. The films collectively received 12 awards when they premiered at the...
- 3/15/2013
- by John
- SoundOnSight
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
Music and comedy standout themes in UK edition of Robert Redford's independent film festival, now in its second year
An appearance by the Eagles to mark a new documentary about the iconic 70s rockers, a live show from singer and performance artist Peaches to celebrate her new film, and a Jimmy Carr-hosted panel to discuss the standup comedy-themed drama Sleepwalk With Me are among the highlights of this year's Sundance London, which returns to the O2 arena next month.
In its second year, the UK edition of the festival, which culls the best selection of movies from Robert Redford's annual celebration of American independent film-making, once again has a musical flavour. Grammy award-winning composer David Arnold will present a panel titled The Art of the Score, detailing his work on Bond films such as Casino Royale, while documentary Muscle Shoals, about the world-famous Alabama studio, has a UK premiere.
An appearance by the Eagles to mark a new documentary about the iconic 70s rockers, a live show from singer and performance artist Peaches to celebrate her new film, and a Jimmy Carr-hosted panel to discuss the standup comedy-themed drama Sleepwalk With Me are among the highlights of this year's Sundance London, which returns to the O2 arena next month.
In its second year, the UK edition of the festival, which culls the best selection of movies from Robert Redford's annual celebration of American independent film-making, once again has a musical flavour. Grammy award-winning composer David Arnold will present a panel titled The Art of the Score, detailing his work on Bond films such as Casino Royale, while documentary Muscle Shoals, about the world-famous Alabama studio, has a UK premiere.
- 3/11/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
At the end of April Sundance London returns to the O2 for another festival celebrating the best of independent film and music.
There is the same diverse range of films which made up the inaugural festival last year with a number of UK premieres including Lynn Shelton’s Touchy Feely, Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color and our first look at Steve Coogan in Film4′s The Look of Love.
The festival runs from the 25th to the 28th of April at London’s O2. We’ll be taking a more in depth look at the lineup up later in the week and this afternoon we have an exclusive interview with the festival directors.
Here’s the full line up of films, all the rest of the festival’s content (shorts, music and special events) can be found here at http://www.sundance-london.com which is also where you can buy tickets.
There is the same diverse range of films which made up the inaugural festival last year with a number of UK premieres including Lynn Shelton’s Touchy Feely, Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color and our first look at Steve Coogan in Film4′s The Look of Love.
The festival runs from the 25th to the 28th of April at London’s O2. We’ll be taking a more in depth look at the lineup up later in the week and this afternoon we have an exclusive interview with the festival directors.
Here’s the full line up of films, all the rest of the festival’s content (shorts, music and special events) can be found here at http://www.sundance-london.com which is also where you can buy tickets.
- 3/11/2013
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
We do love us some Steve Coogan 'round these parts. And when he teams up with director Michael Winterbottom... well we're all the better for it. Past evidence on that front including the deranged 24 Hour Party People and the hilariously melancholic The Trip. Their latest collaboration The Look Of Love is a biopic about British businessman Paul Raymond who built an erotic empire within a culturally uptight one. Coogan stars as our intrepid fellow, owner of the notoriously naughty Raymond Revue Bar and Men Only Magazine. The film charts his rise to fame and controversy, with the UK trailer highlighting family strife, namely the unusual relationship with his daughter played Imogen Poots. While said trailer isn't anything to scream about it's always a pleasure...
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- 3/8/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Some people are born jiggy, some have jigginess thrust upon them. Bonk-trepreneur Paul Raymond had one foot in both camps. He a self-made millionaire who married business savvy with an innate flair for show that Steve Coogan taps into in Michael Winterbottom's new semi-biopic The Look Of Love. The so-called 'King of Soho' and his ladies get their la-las out in the film's new trailer, below. brightcove.createExperiences(); Coogan's porn baron-stroke-property magnate shares the focus with the three women of his life: wife Jean (Anna Friel), mistress Fiona (Tamsin Egerton) and beloved daughter Debbie (Imogen Poots). His rise and fall, fortune and misfortune play out against the backdrop of a West End in permanent flux, with cocaine and champagne usually near at hand and the law of the land figuring out how to get minds clean of filth.There's a dark side to all this hedonism though, as all...
- 3/8/2013
- EmpireOnline
Michael Winterbottom and Steve Coogan reunite this year for The Look of Love, following the release of 24 Hour Party People just over a decade ago.
The film sees Coogan taking on the role of Paul Raymond, the real-life ‘King of Soho’ who opened the UK’s first strip club, and became the wealthiest man in Britain.
We’ve recently seen Coogan surrounded by women in the UK quad poster, along with a handful of new images earlier in the week. And now StudioCanal have debuted The Look of Love’s first trailer, giving us a look at Coogan starring alongside some of the best names in the British film industry.
After starting his show business career as a mind-reader in a cabaret act, Paul Raymond went on to become Britain’s richest man and a modern King Midas. With an entrepreneurial eye and a realisation that sex sells, he began...
The film sees Coogan taking on the role of Paul Raymond, the real-life ‘King of Soho’ who opened the UK’s first strip club, and became the wealthiest man in Britain.
We’ve recently seen Coogan surrounded by women in the UK quad poster, along with a handful of new images earlier in the week. And now StudioCanal have debuted The Look of Love’s first trailer, giving us a look at Coogan starring alongside some of the best names in the British film industry.
After starting his show business career as a mind-reader in a cabaret act, Paul Raymond went on to become Britain’s richest man and a modern King Midas. With an entrepreneurial eye and a realisation that sex sells, he began...
- 3/8/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The first trailer for Steve Coogan's The Look of Love has premiered online.
The film 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, Tamsin Egerton and Imogen Poots.
Coogan has said of the film: "Like 24 Hour Party People, it's a very British story about an eccentric character at the centre of pivotal events in British culture.
"I love the film. It has that strange combination of comedy and tragedy that Michael Winterbottom manages to pull off with a real deftness of touch. Like very few films these days it's actually about something without being portentous. Oh and there's lots of naked ladies in it too!
The film 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, Tamsin Egerton and Imogen Poots.
Coogan has said of the film: "Like 24 Hour Party People, it's a very British story about an eccentric character at the centre of pivotal events in British culture.
"I love the film. It has that strange combination of comedy and tragedy that Michael Winterbottom manages to pull off with a real deftness of touch. Like very few films these days it's actually about something without being portentous. Oh and there's lots of naked ladies in it too!
- 3/7/2013
- Digital Spy
After starting his show business career as a mind-reader in a cabaret act, Paul Raymond went on to become Britain’s richest man and a modern King Midas. With an entrepreneurial eye and a realisation that sex sells, he began building his empire of gentleman’s clubs, porn magazines and nude theatre – provoking outrage and titillation in equal measure.
Raymond’s personal life was as colourful as his revue shows. His marriage to Jean, a nude dancer and choreographer, ended in a difficult divorce when he met Fiona – a glamour model who became the famous pin-up star of his magazines and shows. His daughter Debbie was the true love of his life, his business partner and heir to his empire – until her tragic and untimely death aged 36. Three weeks later Raymond was named Britain’s richest man and his fortune put at 1.5 billion...
Raymond’s personal life was as colourful as his revue shows. His marriage to Jean, a nude dancer and choreographer, ended in a difficult divorce when he met Fiona – a glamour model who became the famous pin-up star of his magazines and shows. His daughter Debbie was the true love of his life, his business partner and heir to his empire – until her tragic and untimely death aged 36. Three weeks later Raymond was named Britain’s richest man and his fortune put at 1.5 billion...
- 3/7/2013
- by Kyle Reese
- SoundOnSight
Last fall, we got our first look at Michael Winterbottom's film The Look of Love, which focuses on porn baron Paul Raymond, the man behind soft-porn magazines like Men Only, Escort and more. Steve Coogan plays Raymond as he struggles with maintaining a real relationship with his wife (Anna Friel) outside of his adulterous business and a daughter (Imogen Poots) who seems doomed to lose her life to glitz, glamor and drugs. The first trailer has arrived, and much like the film, it's flashy, but lacks any real substance. Winterbottom constructs a story that focuses too much on the erotic and amusing, making the more emotional aspects less significant. But there are tons of nude women in the film if that's your bag. Watch it! The first trailer for Michael Winterbottom's The Look of Love from The Guardian (via The Film Stage): Michael Winterbottom (The Trip, The Killer Inside Me...
- 3/6/2013
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
So, with Steven Soderbergh stepping away from film sets to pursue other endeavors, whose going to replace him as the cinematic chameleon to follow? Well, how about Michael Winterbottom? In the past few years the Brit helmer has gone from scuzzy noir "The Killer Inside Me" to comedic road trip series "The Trip" to an India-set Thomas Hardy adaptation "Trishna" to an intimate character study with "Everyday." And now, his latest is a biopic on smut king and real estate baron Paul Raymond. Like we said, the guy doesn't like to repeat himself. A new trailer for the film has arrived giving a look into the world of erotica Winterbottom has put up on the big screen. Steve Coogan takes the title role of the pornographer, strip club owner and impresario who managed to accumulate a fortune of close to £650 million (or just over a billion dollars) after buying up...
- 3/6/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
After starting out on the right foot with 24 Hour Party People, the prolific director Michael Winterbottom reteamed with his star Steve Coogan for the hilarious The Trip and now they are back together for a new biopic. Previously going under the name King of Soho, The Look of Love follows Coogan as British strip club owner and “pornographer” Paul Raymond, who found [...]...
- 3/6/2013
- by Jack Cunliffe
- The Film Stage
Led by Steve Coogan, Michael Winterbottom’s The Look of Love is just a month and a half away from its UK release date.
Winterbottom and Coogan are reuniting here on The Look of Love, after working together over a decade ago on 24 Hour Party People, and we’re looking forward to seeing what they’ve done next.
We saw Coogan surrounded by women in the new UK quad poster last week. And now we’ve got a handful of new hi-res images to share from the film. Hopefully we’ll have the first trailer to share soon, too.
“After starting his show business career as a mind-reader in a cabaret act, Paul Raymond went on to become Britain’s richest man and a modern King Midas. With an entrepreneurial eye and a realisation that sex sells, he began building his empire of gentleman’s clubs, porn magazines and nude...
Winterbottom and Coogan are reuniting here on The Look of Love, after working together over a decade ago on 24 Hour Party People, and we’re looking forward to seeing what they’ve done next.
We saw Coogan surrounded by women in the new UK quad poster last week. And now we’ve got a handful of new hi-res images to share from the film. Hopefully we’ll have the first trailer to share soon, too.
“After starting his show business career as a mind-reader in a cabaret act, Paul Raymond went on to become Britain’s richest man and a modern King Midas. With an entrepreneurial eye and a realisation that sex sells, he began building his empire of gentleman’s clubs, porn magazines and nude...
- 3/5/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Starring the ever-brilliant Steve Coogan in the lead, Michael Winterbottom’s The Look of Love is a comedy based on the real life of Paul Raymond, the ‘King of Soho’ who opened the UK’s first strip club, and went on through his various businesses to amass an enormous fortune.
The film made its world premiere at Sundance at the start of the year, and followed it up a few weeks back with its UK premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival. And with just under two months to go before The Look of Love’s theatrical UK release, the new UK quad poster has debuted online.
“After starting his show business career as a mind-reader in a cabaret act, Paul Raymond went on to become Britain’s richest man and a modern King Midas. With an entrepreneurial eye and a realisation that sex sells, he began building his empire of gentleman’s clubs,...
The film made its world premiere at Sundance at the start of the year, and followed it up a few weeks back with its UK premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival. And with just under two months to go before The Look of Love’s theatrical UK release, the new UK quad poster has debuted online.
“After starting his show business career as a mind-reader in a cabaret act, Paul Raymond went on to become Britain’s richest man and a modern King Midas. With an entrepreneurial eye and a realisation that sex sells, he began building his empire of gentleman’s clubs,...
- 3/1/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Look of Love has debuted a new poster depicting Steve Coogan as porn baron Paul Raymond.
Anna Friel, Imogen Poots and Tamsin Egerton, who will co-star in the Michael Winterbottom-directed film, also appear in the promo.
Coogan and Winterbottom also worked together on 24 Hour Party People, A Cock and Bull Story, and television series The Trip.
The I'm Alan Partridge star said of the film: "Like 24 Hour Party People, it's a very British story about an eccentric character at the centre of pivotal events in British culture.
"I love the film. It has that strange combination of comedy and tragedy that Michael Winterbottom manages to pull off with a real deftness of touch. Like very few films these days it's actually about something without being portentous. Oh and there's lots of naked ladies in it too!"
Coogan is currently filming The Alan Partridge Movie around Norfolk. Stills from...
Anna Friel, Imogen Poots and Tamsin Egerton, who will co-star in the Michael Winterbottom-directed film, also appear in the promo.
Coogan and Winterbottom also worked together on 24 Hour Party People, A Cock and Bull Story, and television series The Trip.
The I'm Alan Partridge star said of the film: "Like 24 Hour Party People, it's a very British story about an eccentric character at the centre of pivotal events in British culture.
"I love the film. It has that strange combination of comedy and tragedy that Michael Winterbottom manages to pull off with a real deftness of touch. Like very few films these days it's actually about something without being portentous. Oh and there's lots of naked ladies in it too!"
Coogan is currently filming The Alan Partridge Movie around Norfolk. Stills from...
- 2/27/2013
- Digital Spy
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