Stephen Frears

We are talking about High Fidelity.

The core of this property is a novel written by Nick Hornby, published in 1995, and the first adaptation is a massive cultural touchstone, the 2000 feature film directed by Stephen Frears, starring John Cusack.

Cusack plays Rob Gordon, a record store owner who is completely obsessed with music, and he uses his obsessive knowledge of music specifically through crafting meticulous top five lists to interrogate his own romantic failures.

It's such a specific vibe.

I contend that they can do.

Amadeus being a great example and Dangerous Liaison, Stephen Frears, wonderful film.

being another example.

They both started as stage plays.

Remember when they had the Oscars and they gave out the award to Scorsese that year? It was in 2006, and he won for The Departed.

And they brought up Lucas Spielberg and... coppola and they were like hey it's the original three amigos from because it was a comment on haha now we got three the three guys from mexico back in the 70s we had the three guys from film school or whatever who you know and it was like to christen scorsese you know give him his oscar with his peers and i always thought it would have been weird like if it would have won it would have been uh what's his name the guy who Stephen Frears.

They go...

It's the original three amigos welcoming their fourth, their most acclaimed buddy, Scorsese.

And they're like, ah, shit, it's Stephen Frears.

It was kind of what happened with the Chadwick Boseman thing.

It was kind of that, where it's like, oh...

... of the religion of course.

In the category of best achievement in directing- Alejandro González Iñárritu for Babel, Martin Scorsese for The Departed, Clint Eastwood for Letters From Iwo Jima, Stephen Frears for The Queen, and Paul Greengrass for United 93.

I think the, the, the, the, the films that I have done are, are the same, uh, films.

As I mean, uh, i- saying that, uh, I think the obsessions that I have been exploring the three films, uh, you know, deals with reality and, and explore that vulnerable and fragile, you know, relation between parents and childrens.

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Clint Eastwood for Letters From Iwo Jima, uh, Stephen Frears for The Queen, and Paul Greengrass for United 93.

Uh, Martin Scorsese wound up winning his first-ever Best Director Oscar for The Departed.

Yeah, Marty.

I didn't, didn't realize that until right now.

Well, you know, those guys, those guys will have plenty of success between the three of them from 2006 onwards.

Uh, okay, so just to recap, we are getting rid of, uh, Inarritu for Babel, for Clint Eastwood for Iwo Jima, Stephen Frears for The Queen, and Paul Greengrass for United 93.

Uh, we are keeping Martin Scorsese for The Departed, and then we are adding Tarsem Singh for The Fall, Sofia Coppola for Marie, Marie Antoinette, Alfonso Cuarón for Children of Men, and, uh, GDT for Pan's Labyrinth.

I mean, we might want to shove one extra one in there.

I mean, I was doing a lot of watching of Stephen Frears movies.

You haven't really done that, but I would love to do...

We should do one on Stephen Frears for sure.

Let's do Stephen Frears because he's great.

I've rewatched a bunch of them.

Yeah, I got to catch up.

After studying English and drama at Manchester University, she graduated with a double first, let me tell you, Meera's performing career moved to the next level after her award-winning 1983 one-woman student show, One of Us, which earned her an equity card and led to her professional stage debut at London's Royal Court Theatre.

By 1987, Meera could be seen in the feature film Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, directed by Stephen Frears, and in the BAFTA-winning ITV series The Little Princess.

Her TV career continued to flourish in the 1990s, with roles in BBC drama series that included Kinsey, Holding On and In Deep, and the comedy series Keeping Mum, as well as being part of the cast of the sketch show The Real McCoy.

In addition to acting, Meera was writing.

You've always since then continued to work in, in Spain, in Spanish, but also obviously in the US.

Right between the two Pedro, those first two Pedro movies, um, started with the English language films with, uh, The Hi-Lo Country for Stephen Frears, and then after All About My Mother, l- just as, just in a matter of, like, two or three years, All the Pretty Horses, Blow, Vanilla Sky, the English language adaptation of a movie you'd done in Spanish, Open Your Eyes.

Yes.

Um, Gothika, Sahara.

And they were really, like, different from everything that I had done.

And that was my plan, was to keep working on different languages, because I studied French before, so then I started English kind of late.

But with- through my agent, I, I got some castings for, the first one was for Stephen Frears.

Mm.