Book description
Danny Boyle's journey to Oscar night began in a working-class
family in Lancashire in1956. After a career in the theatre - working
for such esteemed companies as Joint Stock and the Royal Court - Boyle
went to the BBC in Belfast and produced dramas such as Alan Clarke's
Elephant, and Mr Wroes Virgins. Shallow Grave announced the arrival of
a dynamic new talent to British cinema - a reputation that was
confirmed with the blistering Trainspotting - the zeitgeist film of
the 90s. The succeeding films - A Life Less Ordinary, The Beach, 28
Days Later, Sunshine and Slumdog Millionaire - established him as the
leading director of his generation -one for whom the collaboration
between director, producer and writer was of the essence. The Danny
Boyle who emerges from these interviews is frank, funny, charming and
wholeheartedly inspiring.
Amy Raphael was born in London in 1967. She has worked on The
Face, Elle and Esquire and now freelances for The Observer and The
Telegraph. Her first book, Never Mind the Bollocks: Women Rewrite
Rock, was published by Virago in 1995. She conducted the conversations
and edited Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh, which was published in 2008.
