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Newell, Mike was born on March 28, 1942 in St. Albans, England.
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Newell, Mike was born on March 28, 1942 in St. Albans, England.
Studied at St Albans School and Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Newell worked very hard for Granada and the BBC for some fifteen years before he did features: along the way, he worked on Coronation Street and Budgie, a lot of serials, and a ton of plays. In this respect, he is both a contemporary of and a rival to Michael Apted, with whom he shared duties on Big Breadwinner Hogg.
Four Weddings and a Funeral is his big hit though Enchanted April did very well, too, and helped fashion the modern Italian travel movie. But his best work was on Dance with a Stranger which is very good on class, casual cruelty, and the suppressed emotional energies of Britain (and has a superb performance from Miranda Richardson), and Donnie Brasco, which gets the mob talk and idleness to perfection, and made better use of Al Pacino than anyone had managed in years.
There are also failures—Amazing Grace and Chuck—and fascinating adventures—Into the West. But Newell has a clear respect for material and scripts (his screenwriters range from Clive Exton and Shelagh Delaney to Ian McEwan, Charles W ood, Richard Curtis, and Paul Attana- sio). II there was anything like a reasonable movie industry, pledged to reliable entertainments without excuses or pretense, Newell would be a much better known name. As it is, he has all the right qualifications (and the experience) now to make a great picture if the script and the players come along. Whether he has the ability, or even the nature, to seek and find those things is another matter.
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Films include: The Awakening, 1980, Bad Blood, 1983, Dance With a Stranger, 1985, The Good Father, 1986, Amazing Grace and Chuck, 1987, Soursweet, 1988, Enchanted April, 1991, Into the West, 1992, Four Weddings and a Funeral, 1994, An Awfully Big Adventure, 1995, Donnie Brasco, 1997, Pushing Tin, 1999, Mona Lisa Smile, 2003, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2005, Love in the Time of Cholera, 2007, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, 2010. Executive producer (films) Photographing Fairies, 1997, 200 Cigarettes, 1999, Best Laid Plans, 1999, High Fidelity, 2000, Traffic, 2000. Television films include: Big Soft Nellie, Mistress Mouse, Baa Baa Blacksheep, The Melancholy Hussar, Ready When You Are Mr.McGill, Destiny, The Man in the Iron Mask, 1977, The Gift of Friendship, Blood Feud, 1983, Common Ground, 1990. Executive producer, director (television series) The Branch, 2003, director (television movie) Jo, 2002.
Mike Newell is solidly professional, and represents that generation that learned its craft in British television doing just about anything, and sees no reason why it shouldn't be able to grasp both England in the 1950s and Mafia lowlife in the 1990s. “One reason I don't claim to perceive any particular shape in the overall work," he says, “is that I think people go wrong through self-importance and pomposity.” You don't have to add much to that modesty to see why Four Weddings and a Funeral had true charm, yearning romance, and a canny head-fake on the real world—while Netting Hill doesn’t. In other words, to learn craft can be another way of thinking about life and plausibility—as well as what plays.
Married Bernice Stegers. 3 children.