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Article: Brit movies get big, brash and American.
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- Interview
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- April 1, 1994
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British movies--Emma Thompson, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Naked, right? Actually, it's not all teacups and sputum. A couple of new English directors have emerged who share the sensibilities of neither the Anglo-Irish literary axis that annually spruces up the Oscar nominations nor the Oscar-free, postsocialist cinema of Leigh and Loach. Paul Anderson's Shopping and Danny Cannon's The Young Americans, which both played at the Sundance Film Festival in January, are brash, violent, and ambitiously cinematic movies that look as if they were shrink-wrapped by Hollywood. Cannon, just twenty-six, will next direct the $50 million Stallone actioner Judge Dredd, and Anderson, ...
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