My Beautiful Laundrette

...Euston Films (a subsidiary of Thames Television) and Channel Four Films, who had had some success with low budget features such as My Beautiful Laundrette. To compensate for the lack of budget, a very tight shooting schedule was planned...

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...Gangs Of New York - will be presented with it at a glitzy ceremony on December 6. His British films include In The Name Of The Father, My Beautiful Laundrette, and My Left Foot. Leading the nominations this year is Andrea Arnold's Fish...

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...Contribution to British Film by an Actor at the glitzy ceremony on 6 December. His British films include In The Name Of The Father, My Beautiful Laundrette, and My Left Foot. Leading the nominations this year is Andrea Arnold's...

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...wrote the screenplay. The cast also includes Roger Allam, Dominic Cooper, Luke Evans and Tamsin Greig. Frear's first theatrical film, "My Beautiful Laundrette," was released by SPC co-presidents Michael Barker and Tom Bernard back in...

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...by Omar. Omar proceeds to clean up his wounds, and the two bond. The film ends with them splashing each other with water while topless. My Beautiful Laundrette was Frears' fifth feature film. Originally shot for television, it was later...

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Author Kureishi won an Oscar nomination for My Beautiful Laundrette A new play about the rise of radical Islam is about to open at the National Theatre in London. Author Hanif Kureishi has based it on his critically-acclaimed second...

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...Black Album was published in 1995, many people were bewildered. The writer who had made his name with frothy, sex-filled comedies such as My Beautiful Laundrette and The Buddha of Suburbia had shifted his attention to an obscure band of...

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...the splendour of La Belle A‰poque. The director is British: the great Stephen Frears, whose spectacular filmography includes The Queen, My Beautiful Laundrette, The Grifters and Dangerous Liaisons. The star is decidedly American: the always...

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...who include Sophia Loren and Liv Ullmann -- were "women who count for a lot." Fellow juror Hanif Kureishi, the British screenwriter of "My Beautiful Laundrette" and "The Mother," was more concerned with another omission. "I'm not aware...

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...in May. Frears _ whose latest movie is "The Queen," starring Helen Mirren _ first came to public attention in 1985 with the offbeat film "My Beautiful Laundrette," which was followed three years later by "Dangerous Liaisons." "Of course,...

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