: Amy Raphael
: Danny Boyle
: Faber& Faber
: 9780571255375
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: CHF 10.00
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: Musik, Film, Theater
: English
: 528
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In this revelatory career-length biography, produced through many hours of interviews with Danny Boyle, he talks frankly about the secrets behind the opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games as well as the struggles, joys and incredible perseverance needed to direct such well-loved films as Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire, 28 Days Later and Shallow Grave. Throughout his career Danny Boyle has shown that he has an incredible knack of capturing the spirit of the times, be they the nineties drug scene, the aspirations of noughties Indian slum-dwellers or the things that make British people proud of their nation today, from the NHS to the internet. In 2012, Danny Boyle was the Artistic Director for the opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games. He has been awarded an Oscar, a Golden Globe Award and two BAFTA awards for directing such influential British films as Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Slumdog Millionaire. He has worked alongside such actors as Cillian Murphy, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, Kelly Macdonald, Dev Patel and Rose Byrne. In this in-depth biography, Amy Raphael captures the optimism and determination of a driven individual in full career flight.

Amy Raphael has written for all the UK broadsheets and myriad magazines, including The Face, Esquire and the Radio Times. Her first book, Never Mind the Bollocks: Women Rewrite Rock was published in 1995 and an updated version, A Seat at the Table: Women on the Frontline of Music, was published in 2019. A Game of Two Halves: Famous Football Fans Meet Their Heroes, with forewords by both Gary Lineker and Raheem Sterling, raised money for UNCHR. She co-wrote Steve Coogan's autobiography Easily Distracted and worked with David Hare on his memoir, The Blue Touch Paper. Her second middle-grade novel, The Ship of Cloud and Stars, will be published in January 2022. Danny Boyle in Conversation with Amy Raphael was published 2013 and Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh was originally published in 2008.

AMY RAPHAEL:You were born in Radcliffe, Lancashire, in 1956to a strict Catholic family. What do you remember about yourchildhood?

DANNY BOYLE: I was very aware of my Catholic, Anglo-Irish roots. My mum came over from Ireland in the 1950s when there was a huge influx of post-war labour to the north-west of England. She was a hairdresser. We had one of those stand-up driers in the house; she’d sit underneath it to curl her hair. She met my dad at a dance in Bury in 1952 and they married in 1954. He was brought up beside a tiny farm where his dad worked, all this in Radcliffe, six miles north-west of Manchester. He left school at fourteen to be a labourer but he educated himself, which he’s very proud of.

When he had kids, he was determined to pass on that gene. In fact, both my mum and dad were desperate for me, my twin sister Maria and my younger sister Bernadette to get into good schools. They got us through the eleven-plus and into single-sex grammar schools that were also really good Catholic schools. They were quite tough schools in certain senses, but they were good schools. Having a decent education changed our lives.

When I was eleven, we moved house. Until that point we had lived in a tiny house with two bedrooms, and I had shared a room with my sisters. But once I was eleven, we were no longer allowed to share. So we were allocated a three-bedroom house on a decent council estate in another part of Radcliffe, and I had my own bedroom for the