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		Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters is set in Ireland in 1964 and tells the story of four of these girls, Margaret, Bernadette, Rose and Crispina, who have to expiate their "sins" in a Magdalene Asylum that is actually a proper prison rather than a convent.
		Starting with the story of Margaret, raped by her cousin and consigned to a Magdalene asylum as punishment for "having been raped," the movie explores the psychological and physical tortures to which the girls were submitted to by the Sisters of Mercy, who are portrayed as greedy and evil prison guards.
		On his way to the stage, Mullan, who was wearing a blue kilt and matching violet jacket that literally drove crazy a lot of photographers and journalists, turned towards the jury, looked at them and cheerily clapped his hands to thank the members.
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	Peter Mullan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mullan was born in Peterhead in the northeast of Scotland, somewhat removed from the sectarian tensions in the West of Scotland.
		Peter was a member of a street gang while at high school, and worked as a bouncer in a number of rough south-side pubs.
		Mullan campaigned for the Scottish Socialist Party during the 2005 general election, and is a close friend of former SSP convener Tommy Sheridan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Mullan (498 words)

	INTERVIEW: Scotland's Indie Film "Orphan" Peter Mullan
		Mullan's outrage on the matter ("these fuckin' Channel Four assholes"), as well as his insight into genre and performance, came forth in a recent discussion with indieWIRE's Anthony Kaufman.
		Mullan: I think when anybody writes, there are days when there's no other way to describe yourself as just mischievous.
		Mullan: Apparently, we were on the American copyright thing, where you waive all rights or they won't give you the money to make the film.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_Mullan_Peter_000308.html (1999 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| Mullan: Success the hard way
		Peter Mullan has been through tougher times than the storm he is currently weathering over his film The Magdalene Sisters.
		Mullan's first screen roles were small parts in Shallow Grave and Braveheart and as Mother Superior, the wordy drug dealer in Trainspotting.
		Mullan also wants to address the image of Ireland he was inculcated with as a Scottish Catholic.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/2246960.stm (604 words)

	Peter Mullan
		Peter Mullan still chills out with the swimming practice that he started for On A Clear Day - but the Scottish star has a few heated words on the state of tv and cinema.
		The role was certainly a physical challenge for Mullan, who spent almost six months in training, which was something of a mixed blessing.
		The state of modern cinema isn't the only thing that Mullan feels strongly about, he thinks that television has lost its way, too, arguing that it is dumbing down at just the wrong time.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /feats/interviews/o/on_a_clear_day_pm_20050814.php (1072 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Interviews \| Peter Mullan: Local hero
		Mullan has spoken before of how he was working at home when suddenly he lost all concentration, started crying and couldn't stop.
		Mullan refers often to actors, writers, directors as 'bohemians' and it's evident that to him such people offered a significant nonconformist escape route from the environment he knew.
		Lest one imagines Mullan is being self-indulgent, it's worth noting that despite the rave notices he continues to choose independently spirited, low-budget projects, resisting the temptation simply to cash in.
	film.guardian.co.uk /interview/interviewpages/0,6737,418746,00.html (3070 words)

	The Passion Of Peter Mullan - [Sunday Herald]
		Mullan knows a lot about Dundee and its architecture – he worked in Scottish community theatre for almost all of his 20s, which coincided with most of the Eighties, and says the best thing about it was “touring around, hearing the stories, digging into the life of places”.
		Mullan is fascinated by lingering sense of defensiveness and inadequacy he detects in the Scottish psyche, particularly in the language.
		Mullan had always loved movies, but had no idea how his influences could be of practical use in saying anything about his own experience in his own country.
	www.sundayherald.com /41251 (2980 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| Controversy over Venice winner
		Scottish film director Peter Mullan has defended his film as based on "true events" in the face of strong criticism after winning the prestigious Golden Lion at the Venice film festival.
		Mullan got the idea for the film after seeing a documentary about how the women were subjected to physical and mental abuse but still managed to offer some resistance.
		Mullan shot to fame as an actor in Ken Loach's My Name is Joe, and won best actor at the 1998 Cannes film festival.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/2245805.stm (520 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review THE MAGDALENE SISTERS Irish movie by Peter Mullan with Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff, ...
		The real horror film of the summer is "The Magdalene Sisters," Peter Mullan's prize-winning excoriation of the Catholic Church's institutional enslavement of thousands of so-called "wayward" young women from the mid-1800s to 1996.
		Now Peter Mullan's extraordinary film "The Magdalene Sisters" exposes yet another form of slavery, not at some far distant historical perspective, but as recently as late- 20th Century Ireland.
		Mullan's film offers the church a chance to take responsibility for its crimes against these thousands of women.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2003/magdalenesisters.php (1048 words)

	Peter Mullan News
		Peter Mullan is no stranger to playing struggling working class characters -- he just usually plays them in films with a darker bent than "On a Clear Day." Formulaic and emotionally obvious, Gabrielle Dellal's...
		Do you know who Peter Mullan is? A lot of people don't, but since 1990 he has moved quietly but firmly into the first rank of British film actors.
		Directed by Gaby Dellal and starring Peter Mullan as Frank and Brenda Blethyn as his wife Joan, the action kicks off when this 55-year-old Glasgow...
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	EI > Interviews > Peter Mullan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mullan told us that the weird almost pagan type song “was the product of the actor.” It is a “creepy songalmost encouraging what goes on upstairs [referencing the rape],” Mullan said.
		After writing the script, Mullan said he gave a copy to a nun from one of the facilities and to “a survivor and was told yes it does bear a relationship to what really happened.
		Mullan smiled and said that Loach said it was “marvelous in bits.” The audience laughed.
	www.einsiders.com /features/interviews/petermullan.php (1046 words)

	At a loss Orphans, written and directed by Peter Mullan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Peter Mullan is a Glasgow-born actor and director.
		Mullan has not truly stepped outside of a certain tradition of “slice of life” filmmaking, he has merely permitted himself certain luxuries within it.
		It is indicative of the weight of the naturalist tradition within British filmmaking that Mullan obviously feels his relatively brief forays into the “surreal” to be quite daring, perhaps liberating.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/jul1999/orp-j27.shtml (813 words)

	Peter Mullan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Two years after making his professional debut in theatre, Mullan was voted best theatrical performance of the year in Crow.
		He continues to garner starring roles in films such as Miss Julie (1999) and The Claim (2001).
		Peter has directed many television dramas and several short films, including 1995's The Fridge, which won a Scottish BAFTA and many other international awards.
	www.tribute.ca /DIRECTORS/bios/2885.htm (155 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - The Magdalene Sisters (2003), Peter Mullan, Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone, dvd ...
		Actor Peter Mullan, best known for his great performance in Ken Loach's My Name Is Joe, turned director in 1997 with Orphans (released here in 2000).
		Later, Sister Bridget delights in tormenting Bernadette; Mullan cuts away from the torture and returns with an extreme close-up of her blood-encrusted eyelashes.
		Mullan successfully rounds out all the major characters by spending intimate moments with each of them alone.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /magdalene.shtml (1023 words)

	"He Who Courts Controversy": Film Freak Central Interviews Writer-Director-Actor Peter Mullan
		But there's more to Mullan than an accent raised on Guinness, cigarettes, haggis, and golf: the man, a former schoolteacher and favourite of director Ken Loach, is an amazingly erudite and charismatic cultural observer, expounding at length about film craft, racism, even poetry.
		The man knows his beer, I'll give him that, and while his film isn't without its imperfections, Mullan seems to know his capacity for outrage as well; let's not kid ourselves: that quality of passion in any filmmaker, in any age, is certainly not strained.
		You've got guys that say that the only way to do a street scene is to block off a street and repopulate it with extras and actors--and Loach cuts right through it and just shows up, has his actors cross the road, say their lines, and that's that.
	filmfreakcentral.net /notes/pmullaninterview.htm (2365 words)

	Peter Mullan @ Filmbug
		Peter Mullan is an acclaimed writer, director and actor.
		Mullan's first feature film, Orphans, which he both wrote and directed received an enthusiastic response from audiences and critics alike, winning many international awards including Best Film at the 1998 Venice Film Festival, the Grand Prix Du Jury at the Paris Film Festival and Best European Screenplay at the Barcelona Film Festival.
		For television, Mullan has directed several episodes of the BBC's drama Cardiac Arrest, starring Helen Baxendale, for which he earned a nomination for Best Director from the Royal Television Society.
	www.filmbug.com /db/2932 (413 words)

	NPR : Scottish Writer, Director and Actor Peter Mullan
		Fresh Air from WHYY, August 12, 2003 · His new feature film, The Magdalene Sisters, is based on the real-life laundries run by the Sisters of the Magdalene Order in Ireland near the end of the 19th century.
		Mullan's film follows the lives of four young women and takes place from 1964 to 1969.
		Before writing and directing, Mullan was best known for his acting and starred in The Big Man, Riff-Raff, Shallow Grave and Trainspotting.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1393562 (207 words)

	Amazon.com: Orphans (1997): Video: Douglas Henshall,Gary Lewis (III),Rosemarie Stevenson,Stephen McCole,Ann ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Peter Mullan - Director, Peter Mullan - Writer, Frances Higson - Producer (producer), Paddy Higson - Producer (executive producer)...
		Peter Mullan makes a mighty impressive debut as writer/director of a feature length, here with "Orphans." Wisely eschewing the Hollywood formula Mullan presses onward with the tale of four siblings dealing with the death of their beloved mother, confining almost every minute of screentime into the eve and day of the funeral.
		Mullan's script is ruthlessly truthful, his direction is unfailingly inventive and daring, and the film manages to be the product of a truly unholy schtup between Robert Bresson and the Weitz brothers.
	www.amazon.com /Orphans-Peter-Mullan/dp/B00005KH2S (1311 words)

	SESSION 9; Peter Mullan, David Caruso, CinemaSense.Com Review.
		Each of them has a weakness, and we are pulled into their strange ordeal as we are made to wonder who will be the first to lose his mind.
		Gordon Fleming (Peter Mullan), the owner of Hazmat Elimination Co is a down-to-earth business man with a wife and a new baby.
		He seems deeply troubled, though, and is so desperate to win the bid that he promises to complete the project in only one week, even though his partner and crew chief Phil (David Caruso) estimates a minimum of two weeks.
	www.cinemasense.com /Reviews/session9.htm (582 words)

	Orphans . Austin Chronicle . 06-26-00
		I'm sure there are plenty of good things to say about Scotland, but you'd never know it from films such as Trainspotting and this 1997 outing by Peter Mullan (more recently he starred as the title character in Ken Loach's My Name Is Joe).
		Admittedly, none of this sounds very funny in synopsis, but Mullan not to mention this wonderful quartet of actors makes this comedy of utter loss such a palpable, wearying thing that you're forced to identify with this motley lot, no matter what boundaries of decency they trample.
		The film's only shortcoming has nothing to do with Mullan's directing and everything to do with the Americanized subtitles that have been tacked on the bottom of the screen to ease Yanks' discomfort with the omnipresent Scottish burr.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/austin/o/orphans1.html (560 words)

	Orphans
		Orphans, the new film from writer-director Peter Mullan, begins with a long take of four siblings gathered around their mother’s coffin on the night before her funeral.
		One suspects that the siblings take their separate paths during the stormy night not because the symbolism is apt, but because Mullan knows that their conflicts aren’t sharp enough to come to a point.
		Both scenes are shot and edited so well that you wish Mullan had dropped all of the revenge plots and masturbating old men, and stuck with this material that actually pulls some poetry out of his characters.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/Orphans.htm (631 words)

	Paste Magazine :: Review :: The Magdalene Sisters :: Directed by Peter Mullan (Page 1)
		And now director Peter Mullan's new movie attempts to expose the horrific conditions suffered by thousands of Irish women.
		The Magdalene Sisters is a powerful look at the Magdalene convents to which wayward young women were sent, sometimes for the sin of promiscuity, sometimes simply because they were too flirty.
		Peter Mullan, a fine actor himself, knows how to elicit breathtakingly strong performances.
	www.pastemagazine.com /action/article?article_id=276 (494 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review ORPHANS Scottish movie by Peter Mullan with Douglas Henshall, Gary Lewis, Stephen McCole, Frank ...
		While watching "Orphans," a Scottish film from 1997, I was reminded of a sketch by Derek & Clive, the fictitious — and excessively profane — duo conceived by comedians Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
		The sketch is one in which Derek delights in telling Clive (or vice-versa) how he kicked the crap out of a bloke who had the unmitigated temerity to say "Hello" to him one day.
		Sheila's is about the only good fortune to be found on a night in which a gale-force wind tears the roof off the parish church.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2000/orphans.php3 (746 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Claim [2001]: DVD: Peter Mullan,Milla Jovovich,Wes Bentley,Nastassja Kinski,Sarah Polley,Shirley ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Despite this less than encouraging counsel, Dillon trades for the miner's claim something most men would consider too dear to barter.
		Now, almost two decades later in 1868, Daniel's mine has spawned a town, Kingdom Come, and Dillon (Peter Mullan) is the benevolent despot that rules the settlement and everyone in it.
		Again, it's winter, and there's nothing for the prospectors to do but drink, gamble, carouse in the local brothel, and await the verdict of the Central Pacific survey party out to determine if the transcontinental trains will pass through KC.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Claim-Peter-Mullan/dp/B00005UWP6 (1129 words)

	Peter Mullan Bio, News and Movie Credits - RopeofSilicon.com
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	ROTTEN TOMATOES: Movie Reviews & Previews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Plot: The cheese-loving Wallace (Peter Sallis) and his ever-faithful dog Gromit-the much-loved duo from Aardman's Oscar®-winning clay-animated "Wallace & Gromit" shorts-star in an all new...
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		Plot: The comedy spoof series that knows no fear is at it again with its funniest installment yet: SCARY MOVIE 3.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /p/peter_mullan (464 words)

	Peter Mullan Article Archives by KeepMedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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		Over here in America, it seems we just cannot get enough of the gentle shenanigans of average, everyday Brits.
		Stirring up controversy for its depiction of Ireland's brutal, now-defunct Magdalene laundries for wayward girls, Peter Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters muckrakes the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church and comes off seeming self-righteous, gloomy, and redundant.
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