Steve Coogan plays the television journalist-turned-impresario Tony Wilson in Michael Winterbottom's 24 Hour Party People, a movie about the post-punk music scene in Manchester, England and Factory Records, the label that Wilson founded. The style of the movie, which Coogan sort of narrates from his self-serving point of view, is risky but irresistible. He seems to stroll through the late 1970s and 1980s, identifying musical trends as they happen. I didn't know until reading Elvis Mitchell's review ("fact-free fabulous fabulism") that the movie contained cameos by the actual people that Coogan describes.
I don't know why I liked his smug and erudite character so much, except that I kept wishing he had a corollary in the art world.
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