Matthew Cooper - Director
@Matcooper
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Director of comedy feature film 'Sober'. #LUFC #Leeds
Leeds UK
Joined January 2011
'SOBER' - Leeds set feature film in full - free to view on YouTube starring Dean Smith. https://t.co/pN9iDc9IZq via @YouTube ‘Trainspotting for #LeedsUnited dads’ #LeedsUnited #LUFC
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Raise a glass of blood to the televisual horror of the Scarred For Life era...
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William Friedkin on why 'The French Connection' (1971) succeeded despite the compromises he had to make: "I never feel as though I've completely got my original vision. Often it's a compromise that works favorably to the film that wasn't intended. There is a movie god. And when
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My post on the principles of continuous action has just been published on my website. I set out 15 principles that present the conditions under which action continuity can be established in a film: https://t.co/cUeBQMKSr6
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In this post I turn to the issue of what constitutes continuous action. Consider the recurrent scene in which the protagonist and the antagonist of a film are locked in some type of combat and pause...
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(1/2) Happy birthday to actor Tom Atkins! Known by genre fans for his work in HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH, THE FOG (1980), NIGHT OF THE CREEPS, MY BLOODY VALENTINE (2009), and MANIAC COP (1988). We love you!
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Yeah if this doesn't win Best Editing we're gonna have a fucking problem on our hands
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i’ll be honest i don’t think any other movie has had me rooting for characters as hard as i was right here; was almost on my feet. rock and fucking roll.
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the beautiful gothic horror film Bram Stoker’s DRACULA was released on this day in 1992
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PTA shut down production and ballooned the budget on this movie so he could cast Benicio del Toro, and the very first shot of him instantly proves it was worth it
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The Duellists is Ridley Scott’s first feature (1977) and you can already see the precision he’d bring to Alien. Harvey Keitel and Keith Carradine clash in a film that feels like Scott doing his own Barry Lyndon every frame composed like a painting.
Name a movie most people haven't heard of that you highly recommend.
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this movie is a masterpiece but the entire ‘dojo to store to apartment to phone call’ sequence is genuinely one of the best 25 minutes of film i’ve ever watched
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"Not Bad For a Human is BACK in print from @HarkerPress after a decade away! Get your copy now on Amazon!" Amazon page: https://t.co/S48OpCKmGu Harker page: https://t.co/wLP0YXvuan
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The next month at #Leeds pits the strength of strategy against the might of the fixture list. When the aim is 16th and the team is 16th, does a club back itself, or not? About #LUFC vs Nottingham Forest: https://t.co/1Xpg2261m6
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The next month at Leeds pits the strength of strategy against the might of the fixture list. When the aim is 16th and the team is 16th, does a club back itself, or not?
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Just received free lifetime membership to East Leeds Snooker club as a thanks for using it as a backdrop in my film ‘Sober’ - starring @deansmith7 Check out the name on the membership card. Sober is free to watch in full on YouTube… #Leeds #Lufc
'SOBER' - Leeds set feature film in full - free to view on YouTube starring Dean Smith. https://t.co/pN9iDc9IZq via @YouTube ‘Trainspotting for #LeedsUnited dads’ #LeedsUnited #LUFC
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Happy Birthday to horror king TOM ATKINS, who turns 90 years young today. From The Fog to Halloween III, Night of the Creeps, My Bloody Valentine 3D, and Shudder's Creepshow, Atkins is the very definition of Leading Man Cool for the horror genre. You'll always thrill us, Tom.
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EXCLUSIVE: “It’s like looking in a mirror…only” thirty years later. Almost three decades after they graced screens with wild action pic 'Face/Off', movie legends John Woo and Nicolas Cage are reuniting for the first time on crime biopic 'Gambino' about notorious New York crime
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