Just
today, the boutique MVD Marquee Collection announced they will be bringing the
long awaited high-definition release of British director Michael Winterbottom’s
cult musical mockumentary classic 24 Hour
Party People to blu-ray for the very first time! Slated for June 15th, 2019, the
film stars Steve Coogan as the late Factory Records founder and owner Tony
Wilson and his meteoric rise and fall from rags to riches and back again. Told in a nonlinear, kaleidoscopic fashion
interspersing real live performances of English rock bands including the Sex
Pistols and Joy Division when the film isn’t breaking the fourth wall, 24 Hour Party People drops you in the
middle of a funny and revealing portrait of what it was like to be Tony Wilson
in the vortex of a massive pop cultural shift in the UK. Regarded among many as director Winterbottom’s
finest hour and sporting an electrifying soundtrack with many wild surprises
ahead, this still wildly entertaining and riotously funny biopic remained on
DVD only for over a decade, until now.
- Andrew Kotwicki