Shane Meadow's King Of The Gypsies

The official fansite for British film director Shane Meadows has posted up a little Christmas present in the shape of Meadow’s rare 1995 short documentary King of the Gypsies. I cant recommend his work enough being, I reckon at least, one of the most interesting and enthusiastic filmmakers working in the UK today. The writer and director of this years excellent This Is England, his films have a great mix of realism and humour, hilarious one second and shocking the next. He seems really enthusiastic about staying in the UK and making films about British life, yet having the style and sensibility of an international filmmaker. His films are very honest yet discard the social realism that can really weigh down British cinema.

King of the Gypsies is a short documentary about the legendary bare knuckle boxing champion Barley Gorman. Meadow’s is writing a script with Paddy Constantine for a film based on Gorman’s life,whihc could be pretty epic. Check out the documentary below and at shanemeadows.co.uk



Here's a great Shane Meadow's interview held at the National Film Theatre earlier in this year from the Guardian.