the football factory is a 2004 british sports drama film written and directed by nick love .

the film stars danny dyer , tamer hassan , frank harper , roland manookian , neil maskell and dudley sutton .

the film is loosely based on the novel of the same name by john king and the first foray into film making by video game producers rockstar games , credited as executive producers .

the film was released in the united kingdom on 14 may 2004 .

in 2004 , chelsea f.c. football supporters ' fanzine cfcuk produced a special edition - " cfcuk - the football factory " to coincide with the release of the film .

the football factory ( film )

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in 2004 , chelsea fanzine cfcuk produced a special edition -
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of course a worthwhile film could be made about football hooligans , just as the american writer bill buford once wrote a genuinely enlightening book , called among the thugs , on the subject . the football factory , however , is emphatically not that film .
the football factory cast list , listed alphabetically with photos when available . this list of the football factory actors includes any the football factory actresses and all other actors from the film . you can view additional information about each the football factory actor on this list , such as when and where they were born . to find out more about a particular actor or actress , click on their name and you ' ll be taken to page with even more details about their acting career . the cast members of the football factory have been in many other movies , so use this list as a starting point to find actors or actresses that you may not be familiar with .
football factory isn ' t self - consciously cool ; it has a base , wild energy that will stay with you .
football , brotherhood and violence . what ' s not to love ? the blues . reds forever ! ! ! be sure to check out the football factory 5 - part documentary series on youtube as well for the real thing .
this is not a conclusion you are invited to draw from the football factory , the much - hyped new film based on john king ' s 1996 novel about the activities of london football hooligans . released on friday , timed to coincide with the climax to the domestic season and the prelude to england ' s participation in euro 2004 , the football factory has already attracted criticism from those whobelieve its depiction of violence to be irresponsible .
apart from being an actor , tamer is also the owner of greenwich borough football club .
danny dyer delves into the social history and sub culture of football hooliganism over the past 50 years in this 6 part documentary series . inspired by the film the football factory in which he starred , dyer embarks on a journey into football ' s violent heartlands , where he discovers the firms , their main men , the stories of their major battles , as well as the culture , fashion and music that surrounds them .
i rewatched the football factory on film4 last night . i don ' t harbour any real dislike for it as many do ; elements of it are misunderstood and better realised than it gets credit for . i want to talk about its ending , though . you cannot end a film like the football factory does . i don ' t mean it ends badly . i mean it ends wrongly .
the football factory
focuses on two different groups of english football supporters — the headhunters , who support chelsea , and the bushwhackers , who support millwall . throughout the movie , the headhunters fight with other english groups such as those supporting tottenham hotspur , liverpool , and stoke city .
based on the hit novel by john king of the same name , brit flick the football factory takes a no holds barred look at working class male culture through the eyes of four different generations .
yeah i ' m not sure how i ' d made it eleven years after the film ' s release without seeing it either ! for a while , it seemed that the football factory was a staple of british film - fans who also enjoy the beautiful game . the plot can pretty much be summed up in five words : chelsea football hooligans gon ' hooligan .
the football factory is a candid snapshot of the darker side of the beautiful game . bbc tyne caught up with director nick love and actors danny dyer and tamer hassan when they hit newcastle as part of a whistlestop tour to support the film .
nick : part of me wishes i had thought of it myself as it has been a great bit of underground marketing . music plays a big part in the football factory . . .
tommy johnson is a football thug . how do you make a character like that likeable ?
to condemn the film is to run the risk of sounding humourless ( although not as humourless as the film ) . but if the football factory encourages one idiot to transgress the bounds of civilised behaviour in cardiff next week or in portugal next month , the price of love ' s right to make such a film will have been too high .
an unsparing depiction of the ugly violence surrounding the beautiful game , the football factory uses jagged camera work and a pumpedup soundtrack to create a strangely seductive choreography of fists , boots and bricks on flesh .
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the craftsman was assembled in the same factory , northern scientific equipment ltd ; bark street , bolton , as the witness .
rigorous analysis would conclude the football factory is about as close to the award - winning city of god as wayne rooney is to ronaldo . but , like his fight sequences , love ' s point is well made .
see also , images relating to the selo factory during earlier times , as sent to me by sharon ellis .
a wrongfully expelled harvard undergrad moves to london , where he is introduced to the violent underworld of football hooliganism .
roald dahl’s books have entertained and entranced kids and their imaginations for decades . several successful films have been made based on his works , but the most recognisable dahl adaptation has to be the 1971 film willy wonka & the chocolate factory , based on his 1964 novel , charlie and the chocolate factory .
film vs book : the football factory in this next series of articles , iâm going to take a look at books and their subsequent translation into a film . it is often said that a novel will always be superior to its adaptations , but is this really the case ? this week : the football factory . written by john king in 1997 , and directed by nick love in 2004 . ah , nick love . usually i wouldnât attack someone like this . love has a many a critic raining arrows on his head , . . . ( continued )
the football factory is more than just a study of the english obsession with football violence ; it ' s about men looking for armies to join , wars to fight and places to belong . a forgotten culture of anglo - saxon males fed up with being told they ' re not good enough and using their fists as a drug they describe as being more potent than sex and drugs put together . shot in documentery style with the energy and vibrancy of handheld , the football factory is frighteningly real yet full of painful humour as the four characters ' extreme thoughts and actions unfold before us .
other films relationg to the selo factory , viewable at the east aglian film archive , are : catalogue no . 2843 , being a 19minute film made by well - known amateur cinephotographer george sewell , featuring 16mm film processing ( developing and subsequent printing to a positive ) of ilfords selo amateur film stock . printing the 16mm negative film to a positive for projection was done using a schustek printer , that is reported was also capable of reducing 35mm film size down to a 16mm positive . catalogue no . 7980 , being an 8minute film showing aerial footage of the selo factory and the nearby town of brentwood and surrounding areas .
there ' s not a football player in sight here . the action takes place in the game ' s netherworld - the streets around british football grounds where gangs of hooligans gather to beat one another senseless , all in the cause of a good day out .
selochrome roll film believed to have been phased out , the last film to bear the famous selochrome brand , derived from the 1920s selo factory name . or was it ? information has come to me that there may have been a 35mm selochrome film still being tested in 1969 , but it never got to market .
the basildon factory , which was built by the company , was completed in 1957 . it became the factory for processing ilford ' s colour films . other activities eventually ( by 1964 ) included the making of colour prints , colour printing from transparencies and the manufacture of chemicals and equipment .
one season and one football team in crisis , as power , money and politics fuel a club spiralling out of control .
an impressive 90 - minute performance from all involved . with the story of misguided male bonding around their love for football and fighting , the film is like a mixture of trainspotting and fight club .
an insight on the gritty life of a bored male , chelsea football hooligan who lives for violence , sex , drugs & alcohol .
subscribe to trailers : urltoken subscribe to coming soon : urltoken subscribe to classic trailers : urltoken like us on facebook : urltoken follow us on twitter : urltoken the football factory ( 2004 ) official trailer # 1 - british movie hd the football factory is more than just a study of the english obsession with football violence , its about men looking for armies to join . . . cast : director : nick love producer : jack armstrong allan niblo : urltoken stephen north frank harper jamie macdermott james richardson : urltoken rupert preston : urltoken robert blagojevic writer : nick love john king editor : stuart gazzard : urltoken james moriarty cinematographer : damian bromley composer : ivor guest
the company was acquired by xylonite in the 1980s . paul godfrey reports that the bx factory complex is / was right beside the norwichlondon liverpool street railway and viewing from the train its possible to see that demolition contractors have nearly flattened the factory ( aug 2009 ) . the site is now up for re - development .
it ' s all depressingly familiar - especially if you have seen the firm , alan clarke ' s 1989 bbc television film starring gary oldman as the man in charge of hostilities - although there is one crucial difference between the two movies . clarke offers analysis without empathy . the football factory , on the other hand , is half in love with these characters .
tamer : all of them have seen the film and they absolutely love it . in the film you ' ve got a range of football supporters chelsea , west ham , millwall and tottenham and they ' ve all mixed together to play chelsea firm . whatever football club they support , they love it . everywhere we go , people are like ' football factory - what a great film ' . i go onto the terraces in millwall and i ' m like a celebrity . nick : the reason for that is an incomplete pirate dvd of the film got out last year and from one dvd it ' s turned into an epidemic . tens of thousands of copies are going up and down the country . the thing is the pirate is only one tenth of the real film , it ' s missing voiceover , music , and credits . a lot of people have seen the pirate and love it .
the leaflet advertises new ilfocolor 35mm colour negative film with free colour ' contact ' prints ( also available as 120 , 620 and 127 roll film ) , new ilfochrome 32 for colour transparencies and new ilfochrome 8mm cine . the black & white film range covers selochrome pan roll film , pan f 35mm , fp3 for 35mm & roll film , hp3 for 35mm & roll film and ' really fast ' hps for 35mm & roll film .
to watch a 9minute dufaycolor film featuring the selo film laboratory , at brentwood , essex , click here ( catalogue no . 6947 of the east anglian film archive within the university of east anglia ~ uea )
amateur films are listed as selochrome , the extra fast roll film for fine grain , selo fine grain panchromatic roll film , fully colour corrected and of extreme speed and fine grain , and selo hypersensitive panchromatic roll film ,
the fastest panchromatic roll film made
.
the remainder of the film focuses on tommy trying to evade the millwall gang seeking retribution for the attack , while trying to understand the strange dreams that plague him throughout the film .
nick : the film was cast before i wrote the script . these two were in it before they even auditioned . i think if you are making a film about a subject like this which has to be absolutely believable , you can only cast people , who aren ' t football thugs - danny and tamer aren ' t football thugs , but they have a real understanding about male culture , tribalism and hierarchy .
this would be a subversive ending if the football factory was set up as a morality tale and stopped here . with tommy rejecting all the film ' s lessons , it would upend you , making the point , if a little bluntly , that the draw of male camaraderie and the feeling of belonging is too strong to resist , and give a suggested explanation for why hooligans fight .
also embossed onto the film spool are the words
for projector use only
.
danny dyer takes you to meet the real top boys and hooligan firms throughout the uk . if you loved the football factory , and want to know more about some of the uk ' s top hooligan firms , this series does it with terrific coverage of the casual movement , the most intense derbies , and the tactics of the old bill in confronting football violence . dyer is the perfect presenter for the series , as he is an ardent fan of west ham united , f . c . , a club with passionate fans and a history of football hooliganism . that passion and love for the game come through with every fixture he attends and every pint he shares with the top boys .
violence has certainly not disappeared entirely from football , and it would be foolish to pretend otherwise . the supporters of certain clubs still have a reputation for taking trouble around with them . at all levels , however , english football is a much nicer place to be than it was 22 years ago .
: it was the end of an era . but before the murders , the torture , the beatings and the ecstacy . . . before all of that , there was football . you see , football was where all the spite and the hatred first came from . on those terraces . . . well , it ' s where it all began for me .
hp4 roll film first became available alongside hp3 ( not replacing it until the end of 1969 ) in 120 and 127 roll film sizes , cost 4 / 6d ( 23p ) . hp4 in 35mm film size became available during 1966 . the hp4 35mm film illustrated was donated by luis loubet .
the movie portrayed rudy’s father as always being very negative and unsupportive of rudy’s desire to play football ; in reality , his father was not as harsh but agreed to be portrayed as such on film to make it more dramatic .
also describes the ilford processing chemistry available at the time and the suitability of each to the indivual film types .
the film director wolfgang petersen allegedly spent £111 million to bring us his vision of troy , with its panoramic battlefields , gleamingly muscular fighters and brad pitt in a leather skirt . nick love spent slightly less than £500 , 000 on his film the football factory , or roughly enough to keep the cast of troy in double espressos for a fortnight . yet when the two tribes go to war - the greeks and the trojans in one , the hooligan fringe of chelsea and millwall in the other - love ' s film is the one that leaves its audience feeling as though they have just been through a scrap themselves .
selo films were sold by these companies under their own labels . the ' selo ' company was situated in woodman road , warley , brentwood , essex . although the name ' selo ' was officially dropped in 1946 ( see below ) the brentwood factory continued to be known as ' the selo factory ' until it was sold and the site subsequently levelled in the early 1980s .
the football factory is not a bad a film as its reputation would suggest . its biggest crime is that john king may be regarded as a schlock and pulpy because of it . in reality , he is one of the most exciting british writers of the last twenty years , and for me deserves all the fame that has fallen at the feet of welsh and hornby . so in this case , without a doubt i go with :
while pitt and eric bana swoop and dance around each other in troy ' s perfectly choreographed climactic routine , the engagement at the heart of the football factory looks like cctv footage of saturday night closing time in yeovil . grainy , indistinct , full of horrible noises , such is its ugly intensity , it sucks the air out of the cinema even as you watch .
' fp ' was originally an abbreviation for fine ( grain ) panchromatic ( film ) and ' hp ' for hypersensitive panchromatic ( film ) . hence , strictly grammatically , these film names should be abbreviated to f . p . and h . p . , as in the film carton of h . p . 2 shown immediately below . as this film carton is dated september 1942 , it must be from some of the last batches of h . p . 2 film produced ( carton images from charlie kamerman ) . interestingly , this 127 size roll film carton was original intended for selo ortho ( chromatic ) film and has a sticker relabelling the carton as hypersensitive panchromatic film .
the film follows tommy johnson ( danny dyer ) , a football hooligan in his mid 20s who has begun to question his morals and the morals of those around him . tommy ' s major conflict in the film stems from his inevitable aging . although he loves his weekend ' meets ' , he knows he cannot possibly play forever .
the instruction leaflet with this film pack was printed in april 1934 ( d34 ) but is presumably an instruction leaflet appropriate to all contemporary ilford film packs so may not have been printed for this specific film . ' silver by the ton ' lists the selochrome ' super speed ' film pack ' s first appearance to 1935 .
during the next 30 years , ilford ' s mobberley site began to concentrate on the manufacture of photographic paper . the large rolls of paper were transported to the essex factory for cutting , packing and distribution .
two new disposable black & white cameras announced in january . one is preloaded with xp2 super film ( c41 process ) and the other with hp5 plus film .
the word ' selo ' features throughout much of ilford ' s history , between the 1920 ' s to 1968 . above , and below , are shown a number of images bearing the selo name . the ' selo ' company , initially formed to serve a consortium of several uk photographic companies , was situated in woodman road , warley , brentwood , essex . although the name ' selo ' was officially dropped from this factory ' s name ( by ilford ) in 1946 , this brentwood factory continued to be known as ' the selo factory ' until it was sold and the site subsequently levelled in the early 1980s for some early photographs relating to this factory , see urltoken the same factory is pictured in 1973 can be seen at urltoken selo ) factory . html a 1930s selo advert can be seen here urltoken a 1934 selochrome film advert can be seen here urltoken some early printing papers , including selo gaslight , can be seen here urltoken another pack of selo gaslight printing paper , believed to date to around 1940 , can be seen here urltoken an interesting ' selo girl ' picture , probably from the 1930 ' s , reminiscent of the famous kodak girl advertisement , can be seen here urltoken
members of the mobberley village society have contributed various images and information regarding the early times of rajar ltd and the mobberley site . the factory is believed to have been acquired by ilford , limited , in 1928 .
sharon ellis has sent me a photograph of some of the selo factory employees in the 1960s . don cornish has let me know that this photograph was taken at the retirement of shift manager bill bassam .
) is raised throughout , in fact . cleverly , football itself is entirely absent from the film . the characters are never inside a stadium , we never see action on a pitch , no one watches or even discusses football . even when billy bright and fred go to watch their sons play , the shots we see are above the kids ' head height , of the two men arguing their way into a fight . the kids shake their heads and trudge off wearily .
we are looking for males & females to be passers by aged 30 - 60 for this hilarious spoof film on football hooligans . if you are available and can get to london on saturday 9th february or sunday 10th february , you can star in this film ! although these roles are unpaid , we will give you £10 to cover expenses and will supply you with lunch . you will be needed from 7am - 5pm . for all supporting artists , it’s a great opportunity to get involved in an independent british movie with a fantastic cast and a guaranteed cinema release ! this will be an amazing shoot to be a part of and a brilliant days filming and loads of fun . urltoken the hooligan factory is the first movie spoofing the \ ' football hooligan film \ ' genre made in the uk . football violence is so funny , it hurts . your application will be going directly to the casting director who will be contacting you to arrnage the filming . you can be expected to be featured in the film as you will be needed for filming all day . get involved !
in fact , this is a film that has gone down very well in certain laddish quarters . pirate copies have been doing the rounds for some time , suggesting that , even before its theatrical release this week , love ' s film has achieved precisely what his tabloid critics suggest its director set out to do : glamorise the violent fringe of football .
a 9 . 5mm metal cine film spool , clearly embossed with the brand name selo .
the previous ilfachrome colour reversal 35mm film becomes renamed as ilfochrome , probably late in 1961 .
accept it for what it is and you ' ll enjoy it . classic film
a young british soccer hooligan faces his personal damascene moment in “the football factory , ” a wannabe hard - hitting drama about blighty’s best - known export that’s as pointless as the social disease it purports to examine . made bearable by a blackly humorous streak and a couple of good performances , this cuss - filled slice of english self - loathing will appeal to [ … ]
as a uk citizen i can understand the love by usviewers for
green street
with its main character being a american who falls into football hooliganism , but as a movie . . .
tamer : i think so , but the actual film is very different and has added scenes .
selo film dispenser south kensington science museum ( perhaps now at the bradford media museum ? ) .
once in use , the name selo survived in the film name ' selochrome ' until around 1968 . click here , or the adverts alongside , to see how selo film was being advertised in september 1930 .
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the company makes all its own film base , i . e . the non - inflammable plastic on which the emulsions are coated . before the war this film base had to be imported , either from america or belgium , and meant expenditure of foreign currencies . now , in the £2 million factory built in association with bx plastics ( see the 1946 chronoloy ' slot ' ) , all of llford ' s requirements are being met .
john alexander has emailed with recollections of working in the original ilford factory site at roden street , ilford , essex , when he was a teenager . click here to read his account of those times .
ilford ltd now employ about 4 , 000 people in england and over 500 abroad in subsidiary distributing companies including their new factory in australia ( for pictures see the 1955 chronology ' slot ' ) . .
the football factory ' s tommy johnson ( danny dyer ) is just such a character - a twentysomething chelsea supporter who is putting off his fate , a dead - end job and a sexless marriage , for as long as possible . he lives for the weekends , when he and the rest of the firm , an eclectic group of bullies , go out to brawl with rival supporters under the delusion that they ' re battling for britain .
as such , love believed , this view of the grim underbelly of our national game was worth exploring in a film . this is not an attitude shared by most involved with football , those who would prefer to ignore it , hoping that way it might disappear of its own accord .
watch this movie . . . . . hooliganism and drugs . . . what else does a movie need . . . . well , could have used a little more sex , but that ' s just my opinion . pure entertainment the whole way through . don ' t expect to see any football in this movie . this movie portrays the passion of football . . . . or maybe more so , hooliganism . . . . . but it ' s still good to be passionate about something in life , right ? well written , good acting , & very humorous on top of everything else . a must see for any football ( proper football , as in ' soccer ' ) fanatic , or for anyone else that is passionate about any one thing in life .
nick : when you make a film that people are interested to see , it makes life really easy . mike skinner ( the streets ) came to see the film and wanted to give us a song for nothing . primal scream ' s bobby gillespie saw the film and wanted to give us a song . so when everyone wants to be in the film , it ' s a real good footing . the film features a couple of gang fight scenes - were they difficult to co - ordinate ?
the three films illustrated are selochrome ortho , hp3 and fp3 , all in 120 roll film format .
if i ? m honest ( and this will sound like i am stating the obvious here ) football hooliganism is very much all this film is about . it offers no moral to the story , like many of the films in this genre , but a very realistic view of what goes on behind the scenes of the game . we ? re used to seeing danny dyer in films containing violence and paired up again with director nick love , this film had the potential to be the film of all football hooligan films to me . now i know i ' m a woman and not quite in my teens any more , but anyone who knows me , knows that i prefer lad movies and don ' t shy away from the violent ones , it was a watchable film , but didn ' t haven ' t anything great about it .
has the pirate version helped create a buzz around the film ? danny : yeah , people are going mad for the dvd .
the ilford ' prentice ' first appeared , a basic 120 roll film folding camera very similar to the kershaw penguin .
two new film developers , tested in amateur photographer 21st january 1970 ; ilfosol and perceptol .
the story of a poor boy who , with the help of winning a golden ticket into the world’s most wonderful and bizarre chocolate factory , has all of his dreams come true is a staple in moviedom . the script for the 1971 movie was written by dahl himself .
ilford hps roll film ( 120 size ) and 35mm film introduced
the fastest film in the world
( plates had been introduced in 1952 ) . fast panchromatic , 400asa in daylight , 320asa in tungsten light . the speed revision of 1960 raised the speed to 800asa . price ; 127 film 3s / 1d ( 15 . 5p ) , 120 & 620 film 3s / 5d ( 17p ) & 36exp 35mm cassette 9s / 2d ( 46p ) . multiply these costs by around 20 to get 2008 equivalents , so the 35mm cassette of monochrome hps would cost £9 . 20p and a 120 roll film £3 . 40p .
i think this is jarring because it isn ' t how films end . they either wrap things up , deliberately don ' t wrap things up , or suggest that they might be wrapped up at some point in the future . the football factory doesn ' t have to show us that tommy has grown or that he ' s realised the error of his ways . it just needs to give us a minute less , or an extra minute more of
scratching beneath the initially unnerving surface , you ' ll discover a film that ' s less concerned with football violence and more intrigued by the destructive nature of male bonding , the male ego and male discontentment . the anticipated displays of violence are brutal , but they are both infrequent and counterbalanced by the astonishingly brazen and laughably hapless conduct of an array of aimless characters .
after sitting through a preview last night , i can only say that those fears seem justified , in a limited sort of way . as a piece of cinematic art , the football factory makes lock , stock and two smoking barrels look like wild strawberries . the only people likely to enjoy it are those already stupid enough to contemplate spending their saturday afternoons looking for what the film ' s characters call
a row
. and it seems possible that by watching such events on the big screen , they will find their activities further legitimised - because that , whether the film ' s director , nick love , admits it or not , is the way popular culture works on society .
based on the bestselling novel by john king , this study of middle - class england , football violence and male culture introduces you to tommy , a bored twenty - something who lives for the weekend , casual sex , watered - down lager , heavily cut drugs - - and occasionally kicking someone ' s ass ! tommy ' s life ambles along until a violent encounter with a rival starts a war , and a series of nightmares forces tommy to question his way of life . shot in documentary style with the energy and vibrancy of handheld , the football factory is frighteningly real yet full of painful humor , a drug - fueled adrenaline rush about friendship , revenge and violence .
david kilcast , who worked in r & d at the brentwood factory site from 1972 - 81 , tells me that the ( selo ) brentwood site was still operating on his departure in 1981 , although shutdown plans were then well advanced .
directed by nick love , the film stars an all british cast featuring rising stars danny dyer and tamer hassan . thanks to a rough pirate copy doing the rounds , the film is already causing a buzz before it is even released !
here ' s the final trailer for the movie , that was unveiled just before the film ' s cinema release in march . . .
ilford ' s chief executive , dr a j o axford , announces planned £4m additions to the brentwood , essex , factory ; a new film manufacturing block , a quality control laboratory , additional film packing areas and general site support services . expected to be ' on - line ' within 2 years . i also understand there was a large r & d department at or near this site , at warley , brentwood .
rise of the footsoldier follows the inexorable rise of carlton leach from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through london and essex in the late eighties and early nineties . it is three decades of his life following him from football hooliganism , through to his burgeoning career as a bouncer , his involvement in the criminal aspects of the early ' rave ' scene and subsequently to his rise to power as one of the most feared and respected criminals in the country .
ilford high speed delta 3200 professional film launced at photokina ( 10 years after kodak ' s tmax 3200 ) . ilford stole a march , however , by also introducing their film in the 120 roll format . ilford ' s previous ultra high speed film was the little - loved 800asa hps , which was removed from the range in the late 1960s .
ilford 220 fp4 was available in 5 roll professional packs by either december 1971 ( date of printing of the leaflet enclosed with the film pack shown left ) or more likely march 1972 ( the date on the box itself ) . the film within the box had an expiry date of january 1978 , so probably packaged around 1975 . by 1982 , ilford 220 film was available both as fp4 and hp5 versions ( see below ) . but 220 film never seemed to ' catch on ' to any great extent and by 2009 the availability of 220 film ( in the uk at least ) seems virtually zero .
released just before euro 2004 , any film about english football hooliganism was , frankly , about as welcome as victoria beckham performing at alex ferguson ' s birthday party . yet despite the decidedly controversial subject matter , nick love ' s adaptation of john king ' s 1996 novel provides much more than just bullyboys kicking the crap out of each other .
the address for processing was : ilford limited , colour processing unit , christopher martin road , basildon , essex . the film carton shown here contained a processed film . to see scans of a few frames , click here or on the image .
a glass fronted shop cabinet advertising selochrome film , british made by ilford limited , ilford , england .
four policemen go undercover and infiltrate a gang of football hooligans hoping to root - out their leaders . for one of the four , the line between ' job ' and ' yob ' becomes more unclear as time . . . see full summary »
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the competition commission report of 1960 - 69 provides valuable information about ilford ' s move into the field of colour film supply and why ilfochrome was ( unusually ) a non - subtantive colour transparency ( reversal ) film , as was kodachrome .
rudy ruettiger graduated from notre dame in 1976 and worked as a graduate assistant for a year , then found a job in the insurance industry . today , rudy works primarily as an in - demand motivational speaker . in addition , rudy and his wife cheryl run the rudy foundation , which is devoted to “the support and recognition of those who aspire to fulfill their dreams through character , courage , contribution and commitment” . in 2007 , the rudy foundation created the college football rudy award to honor division i football players who exhibit extraordinary characters ; an equivalent award was created in 2009 to honor high school football players who exhibit the same extraordinary characteristics . rudy has co - authored several motivational books , including rudy’s insights for winning in life , and sells autographed memorabilia and merchandise .
as an examination of soccer hooliganism and its tribal psychology , film doesn’t hold a candle to an earlier brit movie , philip davis’ “i . d . , ” centered on london bobbies going undercover in the tough east end . where davis’ pic at least packed a punch in its portrayal of terrifying violence , “factory” evokes little sense of fear or horror in the viewer . in fact , its closest parallel is more “trainspotting , ” though entirely void of that movie’s verbal and visual invention . where “trainspotting” was a drug - fueled cry against the conformity of ’80s thatcherism , “factory” is a violence - fueled yelp against the vacuousness of ’90s blairism .
it ' s a quite daunting sort of thing to do because the book has sold nearly 300 , 000 copies and is very well loved , very passionate book for the football terrace male culture . it ' s the first real book of its kind . the first thing i thought was keep the elements of the book so it feels like the book but absolutely do my own thing . so why did you cast danny dyer and tamer hassan in the film ?
nick : yeah , film is a very difficult medium . as an auteur , looking at something and going ' right this is the book and i ' m going to make the film - now how am i going to do that ? '
the 1930 ap advert shows that ilford size no . 20 ' selo ' film cost 1 / - for 8 exposures .
the name fp4 first appeared as a plate emulsion ( a name not used for roll & 35mm film until 1968 ) .
ron photographed the frigate hms mourne ( k 261 ) blowing up after she was hit by a gnat torpedo from u - 767 on the 15 june 1944 . he got his film from
an old school pal
, robert patience , who worked at the selo factory in brentwood . bob had previously been the tail gunner on a bombing raid over hamburg in 1943 , part of operation gomorrah to destroy germany ' s second largest city . their ' plane was badly shot up and the entire crew invalided out . ron soon had a good business going , selling selo film to his shipmates , taking their photographs , developing the film and making prints .
the original rajar factory buildings , which retained the rajar name long after ilford acquired the premises , were mostly demolished in 2004 and the land sold to barratt homes for the construction of around 90 houses , some of which were occupied by march 2007 . ilford retained its newer buildings at the rear of the site and they are still in use ( 2016 ) . the imposing 1903 entrance building to the rajar factory has been retained and now serves as a village community facility . this building was preserved , renovated & presented to mobberley as part of an agreement with ilford in exchange for the parish council supporting ilford ' s planning application for housing on the site
ilford launched its first colour film
d
10 asa . ( and in 1956 type
f
for clear flashbulbs ) this was ( unusually ) a non - substantive reversal film , as was kodachrome . to read a full account of ilford ' s attempts over the following 20 years to move into the field of colour film photography , click here .
in fishwick ' s 1st nov 1982 catalogue , 220 roll film is available in fp4 and hp5 versions ( £2 . 48 per roll compared to £1 . 06 for a standard 120 ) . in the same catalogue , only kodak ' s tri - x film is listed as available in 220 roll film ( £2 . 39 a roll ) .
a single 127 size roll film of selochrome panchromatic , still in the pre - 1965 colours . this film is dated for processing before july 1968 , suggesting it was made around 1965 , perhaps just before the new carton colours and sunburst symbol were unveiled .
xp1 chromogenic film processing kits ( acutance enhancing formula ) finally discontinued following the success of xp2 plus with its full c41 compatibility .
ciba ag , switzerland , approach ilford with a buy - out offer . the ciba group comprised ciba ag , ciba photochemie ag ( formerly tellko ag , research laboratory near fribourg ) a manufacturer of sensitised photographic materials , lumière sa france ( near lyons , acquired by ciba in 1962 ) also a manufacturer of sensitised materials & of colour film , and gretag gmbh ( germany ) a designer and constructor of equipment and instruments for use in the photographic industry . a lumière cilcolor 36 exposure 35mm film , 80asa , expiry date march 1979 , colour negative film , is shown alongside . michael talbert comments
this was apparently distributed by lumière , france , in the late 1970s to early 1980s . its a c - 41 process film , so likely to have been around since 1976 ; it is listed in the 1977 b . j . annual . its also in the 1983 b . j . annual but its not in the 1985 annual . the film is actually a japanese made sakuracolor ii film . the package is reminiscent of ilford i . e . a white carton , black lettering , much like an fp4 black and white film carton . when ilford put ilfocolor 100 film on the market , about 1982 - 3 , it was the same sakuracolor ii film . ilfocolor hr100 was an improved version in 1984 , again sakuracolor ii film or possibly konica sr 100 film by then
.
an interesting article on the exposure latitude of selo film , where the film was subjected to exposures of the same sunny outdoors subject over an exposure range of 3 , 000 : 1 , and claiming all negatives gave acceptable prints . from ten times under - exposed to 300 times over - exposed . such latuitude was claimed to be good for film sales as snapshot success was virtually guaranteed .
so the film ' s asking questions about whether tommy should change his life . it isn ' t judging him for his choices particularly . in fact it rather paints him and a chosen few in a good light by showing the real bad guys to be racists , and he rejecting this . the football factory takes pains over its anti - racist stance . it would be more persuasive if it had any ethnic minority characters who weren ' t drug dealers or mute victims of discrimination , but the intent is commendable . there is no real need for it to judge its characters , though ; it isn ' t a morality tale and shouldn ' t be expected as one .
testosterone and football combine to paint a violent portrait of middle - class england in director nick love ' s adrenaline - charged adaptation of john king ' s popular novel . tommy is your typical twenty - something soccer fan ; bored with life , in love with lager , and always looking for a little action from the ladies . of course there ' s the fighting , too . when tommy exchanges blows with a rival football fan and the situation quickly spins out of control , the thuggish sports fanatic is prompted to reconsider his brutal lifestyle and make a change for the better .
in the meantime , feel free to flick over to page 2 , where we ' ve been collecting everything we know about the film to date .
the selochrome pan roll film illustrated is a size 620 , 160asa , with an expiry date of april 1971 , from or near the last batch .
paul says
i am particularly pleased with the photo of the ilfocolor prints being checked at the basildon colour laboratories . what a shame there are no pictures of the ( automatic ) printers . one little scrap in the article is the mention of the british xylonite ( bx ) factory at manningtree which , despite the magazine being about essex , is actually in brantham , which is just across the river stour in suffolk . you mention the margaret thatcher connection with this factory ( see 1946 , above ) . my late mother - in - law worked for bx at brantham in the laboratories when she first left school , before ww2 , but had left long before mrs thatcher ever worked there .
august 1967 ( h67 ) , after the introduction of ilfobrom ( see entry above ) , the 16 page a5 booklet
ilford hp4 in action
, was made available , with considerable detail about the use , developing and printing of hp4 35mm , roll film and flat film .
from the start of 1969 ( as announced november 1968 - see ap magazine , 20th nov , news of the week ) , ilford ceased applying their name to amateur colour films . ilford ltd changed their policy to only supplying colour films to distributors and organisations able to market the material under their own private label . at this time , 25 % of ilford ' s colour film output was going to the usa . ilford intended to continue with colour film r & d but decided on this new marketing policy as their colour film had not returned a healthy profit during the previous 20years ( 1948 launch of ilford ' s first colour film , colour film d ) .
xp2 ( c41 process ) film updated late summer 1996 . made more easily compatible with multigrade iv paper , the iso 400 film had more contrast but was intended to give lower contrast with over - exposed negatives and more printing latitude . sharpnes is better . price remained as for the original xp2 ( released 1991 ) and was available in the same formats , being 35mm , 120 and sheet film .
delta 100 film improved and suffixed professional , supersedes the previous emulsion with claimed all - round improved quality , especially in terms of shadow detail and latitude . availalble in 35mm ( 24 & 36exp ) , 120 roll film and all standard sheet sizes .
i don ' t know if it is unique to britain , i mean have you seen city of god ?
said love of the brazilian film about murderous gang warfare , which featured the real inhabitants of rio ' s favelas .
that ' s a film about eight - year - olds shooting each other . you make a film about the underbelly of english male culture and everyone condemns you for glorifying violence . because a film on the same subject is made in brazil , they say it ' s a masterpiece .
dates from a time when size 20 ie 120 film , cost 1 / - per roll , probably early 1930s .
roll film h . p . 2 and f . p . 2 were introduced in 1939 , see entry below .
fp4 plates had a pre - 1960 speed rating of 80asa ( at this time , fp3 film was 64asa ) .
a young british soccer hooligan faces his personal damascene moment in “the football factory , ” a wannabe hard - hitting drama about blighty’s best - known export that’s as pointless as the social disease it purports to examine . made bearable by a blackly humorous streak and a couple of good performances , this cuss - filled slice of english self - loathing will appeal to a certain stratum of young male viewer but has little else going for it , either as cinema or drama , to score many goals with broader auds . pic went out locally may 14 .


housos vs. authority is an australian film , based upon the stories and characters of the housos television series , created by paul fenech .

the film was released to australian cinemas on 1 november 2012 , following several pre-release screenings around the country .

directed , produced and written by fenech , the film was made for a modest budget of $ 200,000 and was distributed by transmission films .

upon release , the film was a box office success , grossing $ 1,386,692 throughout australia .

housos vs . authority

the characters of sbs ' s cult hit tv series housos make their feature - film debut in housos vs authority .
housos vs authority must be good because the producers made a sequel , pizza vs housos , now showing in cinemas . see the original at 8 . 30pm on saturday ( sbs one ) .
this is the sequel to two different films : fat pizza ( 2003 ) and housos vs . authority ( 2012 ) .
housos vs . authority is an australian film , based upon the stories and characters of the housos television series , created by paul fenech . [ 2 ]
the stars of the movie housos vs authority ( from left ) jason davis , elle dawe , paul fenech , vanessa davis and kevin taumata .
housos vs authority was created to satisfy fans as fenech waited to see if sbs would commission a second series , which the broadcaster eventually did .
he said film and television are the key places where people are stigmatised and the screening of housos vs authority — the feature film version of housos — was likely to entrench existing prejudices .
paul fenech brings his two tv comedies to the big screen in fat pizza vs housos .
reviewing a paul fenech film , whether it be fat pizza , housos vs authority or his latest assault on political correctness , fat pizza vs housos , is a bit like reviewing a wild , raucous , out - of - control circus .
in housos vs authority , franky , shazza , dazza and their mates take on every authority possible . their quest ? . . . to sprinkle shazza ' s mums ashes on top of australias most famous icon .
in housos vs authority , franky , shazza , dazza and their mates take on every authority possible . their quest ? to sprinkle shazza ' s mum ' s ashes on top of australia ' s most famous icon .
richard payten , managing director of transmission films , said housos vs authority & apos ; s figures were particularly strong in the suburban heartland of australia’s capital cities .
urltoken
fat pizza vs . housos , 2014
: cars , bikes , trucks and other vehicles
in 2016 , there seem to be no plans of a sequel to
fat pizza vs housos
.
housos vs authority , the low - budget film based on paul fenech & apos ; s controversial television show , opened at the no 5 at the australian box office today .
to say housos vs . authority is a bad film is easy , to say it made you laugh at decent amount to people you respect , now that’s the hard part .
nevertheless , fenech invariably has turned a tidy buck selling his seedy , sludgy humour to the masses , and it & apos ; s very much business as ooze - ual with the hugely mucky housos vs . authority .
the majority of his comedy projects , which include three previous features — somewhere in the darkness , fat pizza and housos vs authority - and something like 100 half hours of television for sbs , have turned a profit .
based on the television series housos , housos vs . authority follows three groups of people living in “sunnyvale , ” a derelict suburb in new south wales . here we are exposed to their constant run in’s with authority , poverty and the continuous struggle of love , loss and friendship in a time of economic hardship . a triumph of the human spirit… . now if you think that’s what housos vs . authority is / could be about , then close this page right now and go see argo , jokes about farting , stealing and defacing public property ensue . yet is any of it funny ?
long after 1000 sensitive , lyrical mood pieces have been forgotten , there ' ll surely be a place in australian film history for the unsinkable paul fenech – writer - director - star of fat pizza , housos vs authority , and now fat pizza vs housos , in which the characters from two of his knockabout tv comedies go head to head on the big screen .
actor stuart rawe ( reg ) never appeared in the
pizza
tv series or the previous
fat pizza
movie , meaning he was new to these characters and setting . however , rawe played the same character in the
housos
tv series and
housos vs authority
movie .
fat pizza vs . housos is a crossover film bringing together the eponymous series housos and fat pizza , itself a spin - off of television series pizza , which was released on 27 november 2014 . [ 4 ]
in its second week , housos vs authority , distributed by transmission and directed by paul fenech , took another $ 302 , 800 across 152 screens for a relatively low screen average of $ 1 , 992 . the film now stands at $ 1 . 028m .
two of paul fenech’s best - known worlds collide in his most recent project , fat pizza vs housos , which features cameos by kyle sandilands and angry anderson .
australian director , writer and star of housos vs authority , paul fenech , takes the denizens of tv ' s fictional public housing enclave , sunnyvale , to the big screen , with results that are gross , deliberately overstated and cartoonish , and surprisingly good - natured at times .
rumour has it fenech’s movies’ profitability comes more from their cheap production costs than their box office take . but make money they do and so fenech shows no sign of quitting , even though he’d be doing us all a favour if he did . fat pizza vs housos ends on a cliffhanger ( of sorts ) and the news that the story will continue in fat pizza vs housos vs authority . his shit was barely tolerable when they were giving it away on sbs : he’s fucked in the face if he expects anyone to pay for it now .
all the characters from fat pizza are back and they go head on with the local housos in sunnyvale . courtsey pauly fenech ' s housos tv .
the housos characters , on the other hand , are a little less predictable .
housos vs authority should be celebrated because it is a rare thing when an aussie movie sparks a sequel , especially on the indie film front . it ' s not unheard of - - think alvin purple , crocodile dundee , wolf creek - - but it ' s also not common . fat pizza vs housos went into cinemas last week . fury road is heading our way soon and blue dog is in planning . it may be too soon to pronounce a trend towards sequels but it is a healthy sign .
this story uws researcher says housos film has lost the plot first appeared on hills news .
unpredictable . . . the housos gang gather in bobo’s pizza shop . picture : transmission films
what it isn ' t , in this instance , is particularly entertaining or funny , for fat pizza vs housos lacks even the minutest of narratives that were present in fenech ' s previous
fill - ums
.
paul fenech has so much faith in his ability to connect with his target audience that he has invested $ 500 , 000 of his own money in his latest film project , fat pizza vs housos — about half the film’s total budget .
housos verse authority film depicts ' bogans ' now defined as ' depreciative term for unfashionable , uncouth , or unsophisticated person , especially of low social status . ' pictured are shazza and dazza played by actors elle dawe and jason davis . picture : justin lloyd
written , directed , produced and starring housos creator paul fenech , the comedy romp sees franky , shazza , dazza and their mates take on every authority possible in a quest to fulfil shazza ' s mum ' s deathbed request to have her ashes sprinkled on top of uluru .
but with the lazy , nonsensical narrative in fat pizza vs housos - which is the worst of his three films - i suspect the whole housos and pizza phenomenon is now a bit on the nose . i ' m sure not all ethnic groups , disabled folks or welfare battlers appreciate being depicted this way . fenech needs to move on to something else . something new . something lacking ' vs ' in the title . and that ' s just what he ' s doing , apparently , with a secret new project next year .
shot in five weeks with a cast of about 200 of the most unlikely performers and non - actors ever assembled , fat pizza vs housos sees the characters from both unlikely hit series and movies go head - to - head in a kind of lowbrow battle to the death .
housos vs . authority has a 60 % approval rating on rotten tomatoes ( based on 5 reviews ) . [ 3 ] luke buckmaster of in film australia wrote
paul fenech has been lobbing comedy grenades for eons . whether he intended it or not , his latest movie is one of australia ' s most brutal satires of lower class suburbia
, while 3aw ' s jim schembri wrote
very faithfull , very funny , very crass big screen version of [ the ] brilliantly low brow tv series . . . as far as a film doing justice to the tv show on which it is based , housos vs . authority leaves the abomination of kath & kimderella for dead .
however , reviews haven ' t been wholly positive for the film . for example , matthew toomey of abc radio brisbane wrote
the tiresome nature of the comedy wears thin very quickly . it ' s the same easy jokes over and over again
.
once again , the housos are in the spotlight , denounced and derided - and once again , they find a way to fight back .
but fat pizza vs housos turns out to be surprising in one unexpected way – yeah , we kind of guessed that there’d be new depths plumbed here , so that “surprise” doesn’t count . no , the big surprise here is that it’s conclusive proof that fenech’s wacky full - bore style of comedy is actually , measurably getting worse .
while fat pizza vs housos displays a consistent anti - authority slant , it would be hard to characterise the film as either left or right . fenech ' s scattershot method involves taking all stereotypes to the extreme – and certainly not every aspect of what he does is worth defending , especially not the inarguable sexism , which harks back to the days of benny hill . but by and large he achieves a rough - and - ready sense of democracy by implying that no character is more worthy of respect than any other . in other words , they ' re all a bunch of stooges .
just out of interest , from box office mojo , fat pizza vs housos seems to have tapped out at the box office with total takings of under $ 500 , 000 . given fenech was boasting of putting about half the budget of $ 1m in himself , this could be , finally , the end of a fifteen - year - long reign of comedic terrror
uws researcher dallas rogers has criticised the new housos movie , saying the exaggerated characters and plot reinforce negative public attitudes about tenants and affect real people’s lives .
western sydney satire rejoice – two of your favourite comedy franchises are about to collide full force as housos lines up a head to head cinematic battle with fat pizza .
a friend of mine accuses me of reverse snobbery , in part because he knows i think he ' s a snob even though i ' m too polite to say . i tend to be condescending towards the rich and privileged , whereas he tends to not give the poor and uneducated the time of day . he ' d hate housos vs authority ; i love it because it ' s cinematic proof that the smart , the hilarious , the larger than life , the confident - - and the rat cunning - - can be found not just on the right side of the tracks but among the junkies , bogans , bikies and gangs .
as part of the uws residents’ voices project , dr rogers organised public screenings of the previous television series of housos , set in the fictional public housing estate of sunnyvale .
‘‘in my research , most of tenants challenged the view among non - tenants that housos is a true reflection of life in a public housing estate , ’’ he said .
before you say “because you’re an idiot” you have to consider , this is a “movie” that does everything in its power to offend you and make you laugh rather than pretending it cares for plot and three dimensional characters ( something the comedies listed above did ) . housos vs . authority has no shame , no understanding of structure or decency , it just does everything it can to top itself every five minutes in something more ridiculous and idiotic in hopes that you laugh , and after about five minutes , you become accustom to this and either do so or not , if not , get the hell out of there , if so , stick around , it gets better ( or worse , if you really think about it ) .
west pennant hills actress vanessa davis , who plays the character vanessa in both the controversial comedy series and the film , argued it was never the intention of housos to poke fun at society’s underprivileged .
the housos cast , on the other hand… well , they shout a lot . frankie slaps people ( usually authority figures ) with his thong , the cops chase him but they’re too fat to catch him , a lot of people in wheelchairs zip around , “the junkies” try to steal shit , “the bikies” yell a lot and sell drugs , habib and his crew try to sell drugs , there’s a cranky grannie and a lumbering idiot and the rest just blur into one mass of shouty morons . it’s a live - action cartoon ; this is not a good thing .
the colliding universes give fenech the chance to double his roles as both franky from housos and his
cousin
pauly from pizza . he also writes , directs , produces and has a hand in every aspect of the production .
housos seems designed to work the same way a cartoon does . even the minor depth of the fat pizza characters is gone : housos just features no - dimensional characters having slapstick adventures in a crazy setting . but the team at warner brothers who made the looney tunes shorts were bona fide geniuses working in a medium where they could put literally anything on the screen : fenech is marginally competent director who thinks creating characters who run around swearing is all he has to do to get laughs . he’s even given up using his imagination when it comes to slinging insults : if you laughed at “fucked in the face” back in season one of housos , fenech hasn’t bothered coming up with anything new – let alone better – here .
the ‘housos’ of the title — pronounced ‘how - zoes’ and short for the subsidised residents of public housing authority properties — come from sunnyvale , “the worst suburb in australia” , described lovingly as “a shit sandwich at a picnic” . here we meet such characters as bazza , chazza , gazza , wazza and kazza , out of work , on the grog and communicating at the absolute top of their voices . when chazza’s mum rayleen dies , a group of sunnyvale regulars decide to scatter her ashes ( cling - filmed into one of her ugg boots ) from uluru — which is determinedly called ayer’s rock , its earlier un - pc name .
much as we like to sneer dismissively at fenech’s work , we try to do so for reasons apart from the usual “ugh , he’s making shows about poor people” and “this show is just a thrown together mess” reasons so beloved of the tiny wedge of the australian media that actually pay attention to his work . so one thing that didn’t surprise us about fat pizza vs housos is that it actually has a real story : the film begins with former fat pizza owner bobo ( john boxer ) leaving prison after serving a 15 year stretch for chainsawing someone who annoyed him . now he ( and his mother ) are on a mission to rebuild the pizza business . only problem is , over those fifteen years away rents and wages have skyrocketed ( by their standards ) , and the only place crummy enough to be affordable is sunnyvale , home of the housos .
the housos attempt to gain access to the rock only to be denied due to failure to pay the entry fee . they then break in and franky goes to deface the rock while kev , vanessa , dazza and shazza have an orgy until they are arrested by the fired cops . the former mayor of sunnyvale
simon abbott
is elected into federal parliament but his live interview is interrupted by the news that four of the housos got arrested for breaking into uluru . when they get to court shazza explains that they were only committing the act of a true aussie and are let off with a warning . on the way back to sunnyvale the housos deliver the stuff to the alice chapter and then run into franky who refuses to say anything related to what happened with him .
up till roughly halfway through , fat pizza vs housos appears to have no plot : if anything , it has too much . what ' s absent , as ever with fenech , is any kind of modulation . even more than in most tv comedy , the same devices are repeated over and over : slapstick punch - ups , slapstick sex scenes , constant swearing and political incorrectness . each character is assigned one or two running gags . pauly is obsessed with sub - woofers and calling people
stooges
; shazza makes casually bigoted comments and neglects her kids ; and it ' s only a matter of time before bobo cranks up his chainsaw once again .
‘‘stigmatised neighbourhoods face difficult challenges even without shows like housos , such as discrimination by employers on the basis of postcode , businesses being reluctant to operate in or near estates , and the selling off of social housing to the private market to promote mixed communities , ’’ dr rogers said .
paul fenech directs the film like one big episode of housos yet the timing of each gag strangely works , there are no inventive camera angles or amazingly shot set pieces , it all comes from the exaggerated performances and timing and they work . if you’re wondering how the writing is , then you haven’t been reading this review carefully of haven’t seen the trailer for this film yet .
simon convinces the prime minister to re arrest the housos who appear in the supreme court in canberra . johnno the dwarf bikie acts as their lawyer until he attempts to commit an act of contempt after the judge tells him he ' s not allowed to smoke or drink in court . after multiple arguments franky tells the story of what happened in the bush and explains that he snuck into an army base which was american land . franky then explains that aliens gave him an anal probe . after the judge continuously asks franky to remove his hat , he loses it and attempts to thong the judge . shazza then commits an act of contempt of court and the housos are given ten years until that night a current affair plays the footage and re edits it leaving all the sunnyvale housing commission residents disgusted . simon is forced by an angry prime minister to let the housos free or he will be fired . the whole of sunnyvale has a party until junior and franky ' s ex cheree show up demanding money for child support . franky refuses which starts a riot until the coppers show up after which the riot is taken out on them .
as you’d expect , having an open and functioning business in their neighbourhood messes with the housos’ do - nothing ethos , even if they do like the pizzas . things get worse once bobo’s mum starts pulling strings at the local centerlink to first get the locals working there for free as a work - for - the - dole scheme , then have their benefits paid in food vouchers that they have to spend at fat pizza .
fenech has ruled bogan territory before , with his five television series of fat pizza for the sbs network , two of swift and shift couriers , and a first series of housos . his 2003 movie version of fat pizza did excellent home business . there’s no doubting his instinct for bruising working class humour — think the three stooges on welfare — and he has developed a group of like - minded , unrestrained comic actors who consistently let rip .
some of the pizza / housos regulars are looking rather mature for the naughtier action , but elle dawe is fearlessly provocative as the wiry chazza , always in a grubby t - shirt that says ‘this is australia’ , and fenech himself , despite his very short shorts , is sympathetic even while endlessly guzzling whisky . brutally brisk editing by david rudd matches the non - stop action . it’s unlikely that any movie has ever had such cheerfully obscene , f * ck - filled dialogue .
from just about every perspective that doesn’t involve writer / director / star paul fenech cashing in , bringing the worlds of housos and fat pizza together makes no sense . and not just in the traditional “ugh , aliens versus predator really messed up both franchises” way that bringing different worlds together in the one movie is almost always a massive artistic fail because… look , it’s paul fenech we’re talking about here , ok ? both shows are just about him and his mates running around swearing their heads off , right ?
keen - eyed readers will have spotted that while that’s an actual story , it’s one that at most takes about ten minutes to tell . so fenech pads it out with the usual housos stuff : “thongings” ( frankie has developed a boomerang version ) , topless women , swearing dwarves , fat cops pigging out , sex dungeons and songs that involve people shouting the name of the tv series – though most of these songs are holdovers from fat pizza . there’s even a brief swift & shift couriers cameo at the start , for the two people that watched that deservedly unloved fenech series .
the reason why the words “live - action cartoon” fill viewers with dread is because cartoons and live - action work in different ways . cartoons are animated : animation means a lot more of the energy a comedy needs can come from having the characters do things that real - life people can’t . you don’t need to give characters in cartoons a lot of depth – though bugs bunny and daffy duck are a lot closer to real people than anyone in housos , and they’re cartoon animals with only 7 or 8 minutes per classic episode – because you can do all manner of crazy stuff with and to them .
shazza jones is a die - hard resident of
sunnyvale
the roughest , toughest , meanest area of australia not yet rejuvenated by the australian government . packed together inside this ' hope - less ' place of low - life , and acutely destitute estate are some of the most inhuman bacterial scourges that are left to their own devices ; the junkies , who will have anything that resembles a valuable meal ticket for their next hit of heroin . the bikers , headed by angry ( angry anderson ) , whose authority and rule over parts of sunnyvale echo his warnings to stay out of his way , and then there is kev , franky , shazza and vanessa - together they make up the estate into what is it today . . . unbelievable ! the story of
sunnyvale
is told through the experiences and guidance of shazzas ' uncle bazza , whose daily life revolves around the slot machines , pub and pleasurable assertions while under the stupor of alcohol . and the story which he tells us is the quest of shazza scattering her old mom ' s ashes of
aires . . .
the sessions , a film by an australian film - maker husband and wife duo , has taken $ 267 , 000 at the box office in its opening weekend .
written and directed by ben lewin and produced by his wife judi levine , the sessions is inspired by a true story and and follows man in an iron lung who wishes to lose his virginity to a professional sex surrogate .
the fox - distributed film was awarded winner of the audience award at the sundance film festival this year .
starring john hawkes , william h macy and helen hunt , the film opened on 57 screens for a $ 4 , 680 screen average , taking the film’s total australian box office to $ 278 , 000 , following a screening at melbourne international film festival .
elsewhere , action - comedy seven psychopaths opened with $ 671 , 000 across 186 screens for an average of $ 3 , 608 . the film which is distributed by hopscotch was second on the box office chart , but along way behind argo , directed and starring ben affleck , now in its third weekend and taking $ 1 . 49m across 354 screens for an average $ 4 , 210 .
madman’s australian documentary paul kelly : stories of me took another $ 14 , 743 across nine screens , with the film standing at $ 384 , 733 .
australian film last dance , directed by david pulbrook , also in its second week made just $ 2 , 892 for distributor becker across four screens , while amiel courtin wilson’s hail made $ 1 , 677 on just one screen .
last dance’s total box office stands at $ 14 , 210 while hail has taken $ 38 , 556 .
cate shortland’s lore made another $ 1400 . the film now stands at $ 295 , 000 .
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released on a mid - range 155 prints , it had the highest screen average of all the films that opened in australia yesterday , including ben affleck & apos ; s oscar candidate argo and the jake gyllenhaal crime drama end of watch .
fenech wrote , directed , produced and starred in the castle - style comedy , which sees franky ( fenech ) and his best mate dazza ( jason davis ) travel in a drug - laden campervan from the western outskirts of sydney to uluru - so that dazza & apos ; s foul - mouthed girlfriend shazza ( elle dawe ) can be reunited with the dying mother she hasn & apos ; t seen since she was three .
paul fenech knows his audience as well as , if not better , than any filmaker we & apos ; re ever worked with , & apos ; & apos ; he said .
fans have embraced the film with relish - attending early , paid previews dressed up as their favourite character .
what & apos ; s great is to see that enthusiasm and the deep social media following translate into a strong box office opening , & apos ; & apos ; said payten .
this is very much an australian film made for a broad australian audience . & apos ; & apos ;
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shazza jones is a die - hard resident of
sunnyvale
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the series is a satirical parody of australian residents , who are living in housing commission public housing .
after fifteen years , pizza chef bobo is released from prison . rent has gone up so the only shop bobo can afford is in the infamous housing commission suburb of sunnyvale .
swift and shift couriers is an australian comedy series created by the writers of fat pizza . based on a courier business in the western suburbs of sydney , the business is run and staffed by . . . see full summary »
the show focuses on the activities of pauly and his fellow co - workers as they deliver pizzas for
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, the sydney - based pizzeria of bobo gigliotti , whose slogan is
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rabbit and rongo , two dumb but kind - hearted criminals , want to help a young girl get the medical treatment she needs . inspired by true crimes around the world , they attempt to raise money through a series of dumb plans and hopeless schemes .
when pauly goes to sell raffle tickets the first person ( 23 : 47 ) is dave gleeson of the screaming jets ( australian music band ) .
this is a brilliant satire tongue in cheek comedy and highlights the many cultural diversities in australia and superficial nature of the social upper class . most of this will be lost on those upper class people and those not from australia and in particularly americans . there ' s no big name multimillion dollar actors / actresses or explosives , fireworks or even cgi , which hollywood are much more comfortable with . instead talent is what makes this film hilarious . great editing and is fast paced all the way through . the acting is superb and the writing is brilliant and totally unpredictable . laughter from start to even past the end credits , so make sure you watch the end credits . so grab a pizza and a six - pack and sit back for some hilarious entertainment .
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the gang try to find ways to make money to survive & get wasted . mean while shazza needs to visit her mum that lives in ayer’s rock who is slowly dying . they all live in a suburb called sunnyvale that brings the worst out of them by making them steal & bash people .
their main source of income comes from centre link where they pretend their disabled to get more money . in the end trying to find ways to get the bikie ' s drugs back to them without trying to get killed by them at the same time .
film review : you can think what you want of paul fenech - as if he ' d give two hoots anyway - but there can be no denying this rascally raker of moronic mirth is a showman .
sure , his shows aren & apos ; t much . tv series like pizza and swift & shift couriers have always been good for quick , cheap laughs , but only if you and your brain had temporarily parted company .
nothing wrong with that . dumb comedies have just as much a right to exist as the sophisticated ones .
if there was an offensive olympics , fenech and his team would finish on the podium in every event going on the pungent strength of what transpires here .
every ethic minority cops a whack , as do the wheelchair - bound , the drug - addicted , the unemployed , the employed , the insane , the sane , the living and , indeed , the dead .
with a flimsy plot held together by the spiritual quest of haggard houso shazza ( elle dawe ) to spread her dead mum & apos ; s ashes at ayers rock , the film is free to try anything and everything to get a laugh .
the results are shabby , with a joke - to - laugh ratio of seven parts miss to one part hit . and what passes for dialogue is often just a stream of expletives , uttered by people who speak ( and move ) as if their underwear is full of gravel .
as subtle , sad and pointless as a brick thrown through a kindergarten window .
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the plot involves a pilgrimage to the north by a select group of sunnyvale ' s finest , to reunite shazza ( elle dawe ) with her long - lost mother . the journey is made possible by bikie gang boss ( angry anderson ) , who needs some illicit substances transported .
the quest takes an unexpected turn , and culminates in a visit to uluru that becomes the subject of nationwide notoriety , not to mention a fleeting visit to pine gap .
fenech takes the chance to have a go at offending every conceivable special interest group . at the same time the movie presents a perverse yet celebratory vision of a certain type of australianness . and it ' s a paean to the virtues of the versatile thong - ubiquitous footwear , and a handy offensive weapon .
there ' s an admirable democratic impulse to paul fenech ' s latest work that overcomes some of its less forgivable impulses .
in a peculiar way , the film presents itself as a nostalgia trip : while new episodes of the sbs show pizza aired as recently as 2007 , fenech pretends that the characters have been out of sight since 1999 . as the story begins , crazed chef bobo gigliotti ( john boxer ) is released from prison , having completed a 15 - year sentence for running amok with a chainsaw .
moving into the rundown sydney suburb of sunnyvale , bobo opens a new pizza joint and rehires most of his old crew – including the hapless pauly ( fenech ) – at the improved rate of $ 5 an hour . problems arise when bobo ' s domineering mama ( maria venuti ) uses her pull on the council to bring about a scheme whereby the local unemployed receive their dole in the form of food vouchers . this doesn ' t go down well with the residents of the sunnyvale housing estate , especially permanently aggrieved single mother shazza ( elle dawe ) who ' ll fight for the right to squander her income on drink and drugs
and yet , remarkably , the narrow cartoon world fenech creates retains some connection with the world australians live in . the highjinks unfold against a backdrop of highways , shopping strips and vacant blocks that are recognisably those of the actual outer suburbs ( there ' s also a brief excursion to inner melbourne , land of hipsters and hook turns ) . likewise , fenech is far more willing than most australian filmmakers to tackle uncomfortable topical issues – racial tensions in low - income communities , the government ' s treatment of the unemployed – even if he does this in the crudest possible way .
jake wilson was born in london and grew up in melbourne . he got his start reviewing movies for various websites and has been writing for the age since 2006 .
certainly tenants feel that satire plays an important role in public debate , but many would prefer the parodies to not be directed at people in society who are already vulnerable ,
dr rogers said .
‘‘months and months of research was involved in the first series , ’’ ms davis said .
‘‘we went out to the housing commission people , we befriended them , took on their stories . ’’
‘‘the research was sparked by the strong opposition to the tv series from public housing tenants in western sydney , who approached their local member of parliament [ mt druitt state labor mp richard amery ] seeking to ban the show while it was still in production , ’’ dr rogers said .
dr rogers said public housing provided an important affordable housing option for low - income working families , pensioners and others that have difficulty entering the home ownership or private rental market in an increasingly unaffordable housing sector .
pejorative stereotypes and negative neighbourhood perceptions can have very real social and health implications , he said .
‘‘it’s time for us to look past housing estates and their tenants as an object of derision and carefully consider public housing options for low - income citizens within our cities . ’’
‘‘hopefully through all this we can get rid of the separation between housing commission people and the rest of the community . ’’
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this is where a plot synopsis comes in , yet we aren’t talking about a film that associates itself with this thing we call a plot , but as it must be done : shazza’s ( elle dawe ) mum has died and her dying wish is to have her ashes spread over uluru so she decides to take the trip by bringing along her deadbeat husband , dazza ( jason davies ) his best mate frankie ( paul fenech , the film’s writer , director , producer and just about every other crew member in the credits ) his best mate kevo ( kevin taumata ) and his loud , terrifying wife , vanessa ( vanessa davis ) . they proceed to road trip across the country where they destroy everything they touch and decide to make love in the most public and monumental of locations . it gets more and more ridiculous from the point onwards but if i continue , you’ll have to meet other characters whose names end in “azza” , you don’t want that , trust me .
did you find the show funny ? if you haven’t seen the show , do you find poor australian people throwing objects at police and politicians funny ? if so , why haven’t you bought your ticket yet ? it’s 107 minutes ( yeah , really ) of gags and stupidity and you will laugh yet hate yourself for it the minute after .
you may also want to have a peek at these reviews : skyfall , the man with the iron fists , need for speed : most wanted .
meanwhile recent anti - bikie legislation has de - fanged the local bikie gang ( who now have to travel everywhere by maxitaxi ) , allowing habib ( tahir bilgic ) – now back working at fat pizza – and his drug dealing mates to corner the market by peddling drugs inside the pizzas . so while half the locals want to tear the place down for messing with their dole , the other half are hanging around looking to score . as they say in news reports , it’s a volatile mix .
it seems like just the same loud cartoony stuff he’s been serving up for close to twenty years now , which is why he’s received close to zero real critical attention for close to twenty years . but in bringing back the original fat pizza cast of characters – sleek the elite returns halfway through after spending the last fifteen years in gitmo , while fenech plays both houso ’s thong - wielding sex machine frankie and fat pizza ’s hopeless paulie , who also spent the last fifteen years away ( in his case , trapped in a sex dungeon ) – it becomes clear that fenech has gotten a shitload lazier over those twenty years .
the fat pizza characters might be face - pulling morons , but they’re actual comedy characters of a sort : habib is a dodgy guy trying to get rich the easy way , sleek the elite… ok , he’s just a shit rapper , and paulie is a hopeless loser constantly getting into trouble . oh , and bobo’s a thug obsessed with chainsaws . there’s not much to work with there , but it’s at least possible to build stories around them .
stand - up is the main route into comedy these days . try naming a comedian who’s been well known in the past . . .
if you’ve heard anything about that’s not my dog ! – and why would you , it’s an australian film – it’s . . .
ben elton’s something of a strange figure in australian comedy , in that despite living here off - and - on for the last twenty . . .
look on the bright side – at least it’s not nick giannopolous making lame movies at the same rate as paul fenech . can you imagine a new version of the wog boy every year ?
holy shit , there’s an actual plot . no explanation though as to why jabba has a clone i’d guess : d . i would still download the original pizza before it became fat pizza as i thought it was good enough
crap , forgot to mention nick g makes an appearance in this as a racist taxi driver ! that bit was actually a nice call back to paul f’s comedy forefathers , considering he’s basically just making updated 80s “wog comedy” .
rebel wilson , hey ? ghostbusters 3 will be more horrific than the first two films .
why is akroyd so keen to make gb3 ? can’t he just leave it to rest ? especially since harold ramis rassed away .
this is feig’s reboot version , wrested away from the feverish crystal skull of aykroyd .
sadly , it seems likely that the usual other revenue avenues open to australian film – dvd sales , selling the broadcast rights to sbs , etc – might be enough to get it , if not over the line , then at least closer to it . and then when the third film comes out he can re - package the set as “the complete trilogy” .
you people that write all these rubbish comments are embarrassing , its good natured humour that alot of people enjoy and can connect with , aus tv is a joke its copied wannabe american shite and paul fennech movies an tv programs are a breath of fresh air with all celebrity obsessed muppet programming thats on atleast he makes programs for the real salt of the earth people who like a good laugh , normal people , not trend following idiots who try to sling together little clever wity sentances to read like how every “critic / blogger” in the world writes . if u cant laugh at any of his work then you should try writing , directing , producing and starring in your own shows and movies an show how its done ! stop being copy cat douches chipping in ur pointless 2 cents to other exact clone minded people commenting on these stupid blog pages about things they could never achieve , and if you have a beard a stupid sideways hair cut hipster glasses wen u dont need glasses or have used a hashtag in the last 24 hours dont comment back because ur proly a joke anyways
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franky and his best mate dazza travel in a drug - laden campervan from the western outskirts of sydney to uluru so that dazza ' s foul - mouthed girlfriend , shazza , can be reunited with the dying mother she hasn ' t seen since she was three .
not much to say about this one , there ' s an attempt at satire here , but it ' s lost under some awful comedy .
in all honesty one of the worst films i have ever seen . assuming its a satire on the poorer , socio - econmic areas of australia , it very rarely hits its mark . when its not being funny , its being offensive or trying to be . the quality of the dialogue goes along these lines - oi , f * * king darren , you c * nt , you got a smoke ? oh f * * k off shaz , you f * * kin ' b - tch f * * k you c * nt nah , f * * k youse
why ? just why ? this is the cinematic equivalent of giving yourself a home enema , with a garden hose and chilli sauce .
i have seen people like this out in the world . the humour is very broad and juvenile , and its only occasionally funny , but it ' s disturbingly relatable .