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	Stephen Frears
		Frears' next three films proved to be some of the most successful of his career.
		It was for this film that Frears garnered a reputation as one of the most gifted British directors of his generation.
		Collaborating again with John Cusack, Frears completed High Fidelity, which was adapted from Nick Hornby's popular novel of the same name, but it was largely ignored at the box office, barely earning back its modest initial investment.
	www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=2813 (510 words)

	The complexities of cultural change: An interview with Stephen Frears
		Frears: I came down to the location on a Friday night, and Dan was standing under a lamppost that was a little bit raised, and I said, "Oh, you're playing it like Marlene Dietrich." He stood there- I don't know why he stood there-but he looked like Marlene, even with his dirty blonde hair.
		Frears: It has never occurred to him to be with a woman more successful than he is, so he's threatened sexually by her economic freedom, by her moving up in the world.
		Frears: I began by saying that the BBC took the responsibility of giving an account of what it was like to be alive in England at a certain time, and that's how we grew up making films.
	mpelembe.mappibiz.com /archives_06/stephen_frears.html (8061 words)

	An Interview With Stephen Frears (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A puckish grin emerges from Stephen Frears face as he asks the question where an answer is not a prerequisite.
		Frears himself is a rather large, lumpish presence one might describe as resembling a pile of rumpled clothing.
		Frears says it is exactly the type of story that challenges him most.
	www.moviecitynews.com /Interviews/frears.html (1168 words)

	Stephen Frears - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frears had another critical success with The Grifters but suffered a major box office disappointment with Hero, starring Dustin Hoffman.
		Frears has also directed two films based on stories by Roddy Doyle, The Snapper and The Van.
		Stephen Frears currently holds the "David Lean Chair in Fiction Direction" from the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, England where he teaches frequently.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stephen_Frears (411 words)

	Reel.com: Stephen Frears
		Stephen Frears is a director who effortlessly strides both sides of the Atlantic.
		Frears recently placed a call to Reel.com to talk about Liam, the surprising specter of English anti-Semitism, and the differences between working large in Hollywood and small in the United Kingdom.
		Stephen Frears: Well, it sounds sort of stupid, but I was simply sent the script and asked if I would make it.
	www.reel.com /reel.asp?node=features/interviews/frears (1258 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Liam" review (2001) Stephen Frears, Anthony Borrows, Ian Hart, Claire Hackett
		Directed by the versatile and perceptive Stephen Frears, "Liam" is a refreshingly modest, yet very affecting look at the bleak life of struggling class Catholics in 1930s Liverpool, as seen through the eyes of a 7-year-old boy.
		Frears is a director who seems able to spin gold in any genre from noir ("The Grifters") to aristocratic 18th Century sexual politics ("Dangerous Liaisons") to live-broadcast TV drama ("Fail Safe") to guy-centric rock'n'roll romantic comedy ("High Fidelity").
		Frears does run into narrative trouble from time to time -- the big brother is conspicuous and inexplicably regulated to background status and the specifics of the between-wars, socio-economic strife may confuse those unfamiliar with British history.
	www.splicedonline.com /01reviews/liam.html (744 words)

	INTERVIEW: The Homecoming; Stephen Frears Returns to U.K. with "Liam"
		With "Liam," Frears is back in the milieu he's most successful with -- the British working class and their adversities.
		Frears: Jimmy McGovern is a very good writer whom I admire, and it reminded me of my childhood, I guess.
		Frears: It's slightly one of the perceived views of England, this sort of grim childhood.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_Frears_Stephen_010924.html (1225 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Movies and Videos
		Frears comes from Leicester in the English Midlands, the son of a physician father and social worker mother.
		Moving to London in the swinging '60s, Frears got his first break as an assistant to Czech-born director Karel Reisz, who allowed his apprentice the chance to learn.
		In each film Frears seeks to bring to the screen a complete universe, an image of community and family seen from a new angle, whether it's the world of con artists or French aristocrats.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/movies/features/stephenfrears.htm (1141 words)

	Stephen Frears (The Hi-Lo Country)
		Frears: The truth is, after the first few moments, I never thought about it.
		Frears: First of all, of course, it exists in a way that the British film industry simply doesn't exist.
		Frears: In my experience, what helped me to grow was an atmosphere of continuity and stability.
	www.industrycentral.net /director_interviews/SF01.HTM (1300 words)

	Like Pulling Teeth (Or Stealing Kidneys): Stephen Frears On "Dirty Pretty Things"
		Frears is also a journalist's nightmare (second only to the tape recorder that has silently quit on you) -- brusque, adverserial, the very opposite of forthcoming, like those social maladroits who refuse to hold up their end of a dialogue.
		Frears: Oddly enough, when I made "High Fidelity," which I made for Disney, the head of the studio said, "Make this like an indie film." "Liaisons," you know, is about me in frocks, so people in Hollywood were nervous about that.
		Frears: Yes, they supply whatever it is that the wealthy classes need.
	www.indiewire.com /people/people_030718frears.html (2028 words)

	Marcia Pally - Meeting Stephen Frears
		Frears, born in 1941, read law and Cambridge and learned that he didn't want to practice it.
		Frears was attracted to the Orton project because "we come from the same town.
		Frears' club sandwich was brought to his room just about the time the photographer arrived, which worried him.
	www.marciapally.com /Pages/frears.html (2026 words)

	Untitled
		Director Stephen Frears tells Mike Hodgkinson how he took one of Sam Peckinpah's favourite cowboy stories, focused on the complicated relationships of the characters, and came up with a classic Western that's not really a Western at all...
		What really drew Frears to the story was the simmering conflict between the ways of the Old West and the pressures of 20th-century industry.
		Stephen has shown that he can adapt to many genres - gangster, horror, period, comedy, noir, you name it -; with remarkable ease and flexibility.
	www.filmfestivals.com /berlin99/html/us/interv6.htm (1591 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! Movies - Artists - Frears, Stephen: Fond of Frears
		The red carpet is out for Frears tonight as the Toronto Film Festival honours the director in a gala tribute, but the man responsible for such movies as My Beautiful Laundrette, The Grifters, Dangerous Liaisons, Hero, The Snapper, and High Fidelity, among others, started out studying law at Cambridge.
		The modest and witty Frears, a filmfest regular, is the perfect tribute choice for this important 25th anniversary festival.
		The disheveled Frears, who generally looks as if he's just been pulled backward through a hedge, is a fave with actors and audiences.
	jam.canoe.ca /Movies/Artists/F/Frears_Stephen/2000/09/09/758461.html (531 words)

	Stephen Frears Biography
		Intended for TV, this instead proved a big success in cinemas, encouraging Frears to try his hand at bigger screen stuff, notably Prick Up Your Ears (1987), a biopic of the gay and self-destructive playwright Joe Orton.
		The award winning Dangerous Liaisons (1988) set Frears up for the international career that had long interested him, although his work within that framework has been rather more variable, from the underrated The Grifters (1990) and one of Frears' best mainstream films, Accidental Hero (1992).
		After a Hollywood hit with High Fidelity (2000), Frears returned to the gritty realism of his indie past with the urban thriller Dirty Pretty Things (2002).
	www.britmovie.co.uk /biog/f/008.html (268 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Screens: Of Church and State: British Director Stephen Frears Takes on Catholicism and ...
		Stephen Frears directs Liam, which opens in Austin on Friday.
		To call Frears -- whose latest film, Liam, screened at this year's Austin Film Festival and opens in local theatres on Friday -- prolific would be an understatement.
		After his father loses his shipyard job and his sister goes to work for a wealthy Jewish family, Liam is left to find his own way as his First Communion approaches.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:83394 (1432 words)

	Mr. Frears Presents: Film Freak Central Interviews Stephen Frears (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		y first glimpse of lanky British director Stephen Frears was in passing as he took shelter from a frigid early-December wind in a doorway in front of Denver's historic Brown Palace Hotel.
		Iconoclastic at the least, Frears turned his back on a career in law and began his tutelage in the arts at the Royal Court Theatre under Karel Reisz and, eventually, Lindsay Anderson, on whose fantastic If...
		Frears to the consternation of his local PR rep and her schedule), finding him to be as elusive to pin down as his pictures are--the playful hooliganism many mark as his watermark only manifesting itself in person as a sly look now and again.
	filmfreakcentral.net /notes/sfrearsinterview.htm (2442 words)

	Stephen Frears Celebrity Interview for Dirty Pretty Things (2003) at The Movie Insider
		Stephen Frears has a steely gaze that pierces down to the very core of a question.
		Frears, with his disheveled salt and pepper hair and rumpled button down shirt, chortles and renders silence with a sardonic retort:
		Some say that a great director either lends or borrows facets of personality from the characters he creates onscreen, but as Frears enters the room to face a long table with tape recorders and microphones, he mutters a phrase distinctively himself: "Goodness, this must be the McCarthy trials."
	www.themovieinsider.com /i122/stephen-frears (1206 words)

	Movie Habit: Interview with Stephen Frears
		Stephen Frears has been making films for TV and theaters since the late 1960s.
		They stay ahead of the competition by showcasing nude women, although because of morality laws, the women have to stand perfectly still, in tableaux.
		Frears is quick to praise actors and writers, which doesn’t come across as false modesty; he seems genuinely tickled to get to work with great talent and still get much of the credit.
	www.moviehabit.com /essays/frears05.shtml (1041 words)

	Mindjack Film: Stephen Frears on Lindsay Anderson
		Director Stephen Frears came around to San Francisco this week to talk about his new Golden Globe-nominated Mrs.
		The director got his start working in theater, and then as an assistant for directors Karel Reisz and Lindsay Anderson.
		On the late great Anderson -- about whom most Americans still know too little -- Frears had this to say: "He was a bugger.
	www.mindjack.com /film/2005/12/stephen-frears-on-lindsay-anderson.html (103 words)

	screenonline: Frears, Stephen (1941-) Biography
		Frears achieved his career breakthrough the following year with
		Frears had already dealt with the plight of political refugees in the television play
		Early short film by Stephen Frears set in apartheid South Africa
	www.screenonline.org.uk /people/id/469201/index.html (703 words)

	In Focus \| August 2003 \| The Sum of All Frears
		But the film’s lurid plot is grounded (and given a deeply human voice) by Frears’ direction – which focuses squarely on the film’s desperate immigrant characters, one of them played by “Amélie” star and Gallic supersprite Audrey Tautou.
		Frears is nothing if not direct, and it’s a directness earned through experience: He spent much of the ‘70s and early ‘80s working in British television, cultivating a reputation as a superb craftsman and friend to actors.
		Frears well past midnight (his time) about “Dirty Pretty Things,”; “High Fidelity,” fun with accents, working with actors, the economics of indie filmmaking and one very good pirate movie.
	www.infocusmag.com /03August/frears.htm (3077 words)

	Telegraph \| Entertainment \| Filmmakers on film: Stephen Frears
		By any standards, Stephen Frears has had a rich, mercurial career.
		Although best-known for his work for the cinema, the British director had a long, distinguished apprenticeship on television, including a great many plays and one inspired episode of The Comic Strip Presents (a robust dig in the ribs of television cops The Professionals).
		But Devlin and Huberman fall for each other - a fact he admits to himself only after she seems to be firmly in Sebastian's clutches.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2002/12/07/bffmof07.xml (834 words)

	Stephen Frears
		Stephen Frears started out at the BBC, directing Alan Bennett plays.
		Not that they share many similarities, except a reliance on actors, designers and cinematographers to make the movie.
		Frears has an eye for material (OK, forget Mary Reilly) and beautiful casting.
	www.thecontext.com /docs/875.html (94 words)

	Amazon.ca: Dirty Pretty Things: DVD: Stephen Frears,Sophie Okonedo,Sergi López,Audrey Tautou,Chiwetel Ejiofor,Benedict ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Former game-show impresario Steve Knight delivers a script that adheres to all the standard tenets of the paranoid thriller, but where he, Frears, and the talented cast make the material their own is in the colorful, grimy details of immigrant life in modern-day London.
		Only when bodies start popping up does the film shift into thriller mode, and thanks to the realistic tone Frears worked so hard to establish in the opening act, all the revelations, red herrings, and foreshadowing are seamlessly integrated into picture as a whole.
		Director Stephen Frears leads the cast and crew to completing this unique film.
	www.amazon.ca /Dirty-Pretty-Things-Stephen-Frears/dp/B00018D3LE (1455 words)

	BFI \| About \| Governors \| Stephen Frears
		in 1990, renowned director Stephen Frears began his feature film career in 1972 with
		A native of England, Frears studied law at Cambridge University before turning to the arts and became involved with London's Royal Court Theatre.
		While there he served as an assistant to director Lindsay Anderson and to Albert Finney.
	www.bfi.org.uk /about/people/governors/frears.html (119 words)

	IGN: 10 Questions: Stephen Frears
		August 15, 2003 - Stephen Frears may find it hard to believe he's been making films for twenty-five years now.
		And it suffices to say, if they kept stats for critical acclaim he would have a very high average.
		In the '60s and for much of the '70s Frears worked in television in Britain.
	movies.ign.com /articles/433/433929p1.html (560 words)

	Stephen Frears quiz -- free game
		Which movie directed by Frear was adapted from the book 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses'?
		Which two John Cusack movies were directed by Frears?
		Name one of the movie(s) that he was nominated for an Academy Award for best director for.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=42720 (129 words)

	Stephen Frears
		Armed with a keen visual awareness and compelling ability to tell a story, Stephen Frears established himself as a leading director in British cinema and TV in the 1980s.
		After studying law at Cambridge, Frears became interested in the stage and joined London's Royal Court Theater.
		He did not become involved in film until 1966 when Karel Reisz offered an unemployed Frears a job as assistant director on "Morgan." Frears continued working as an assistant director for Reisz, Lindsay Anderson and Albert Finney before he had the opportunity to direct his first feature....
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/detail/id/195964 (465 words)

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