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| | "He Who Courts Controversy": Film Freak Central Interviews Writer-Director-Actor Peter Mullan |
 | | An indisputable sign of my provincialism, ten minutes into my conversation with Scottish actor-filmmaker Peter Mullan and I was still thinking to myself how awesome his rolling brogue is--I've never been more tempted to ape Irvine Welsh. |
 | | 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. |
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