A new film from the legend that is director Mike Leigh is always an occasion and his latest, the BAFTA-nominated Hard Truths, is no exception. After the Victorian settings of Peterloo (2018) and Mr ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste reunited with her 'Secrets & Lies' director to make the harrowing 'Hard Truths.' We spoke to them both about Leigh's famous prep process.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste in “Hard Truths,” Danielle Deadwyler in “The Piano Lesson,” Clarence Maclin in “Sing Sing,” Aunjanue ...

British director Mike Leigh is best known for his depictions of every-day life and for his improv style. Here are his best movies. As Pansy goes about her day, complaining to, and about ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste puts in a towering performance as the bitter, angry and ultimately unknowable heroine of Hard Truths, ...

The series highlights the work of British writer-director Mike Leigh and is curated by Ian Moran ... I discovered the work of Mike Leigh. The style of these films and the entire approach of their ...

Mike Leigh has directed 15 feature films over 5 decades with a unique style of immersing his actors in the creative process of developing scripts over months of research and improvisation.

Mike Leigh’s films are famous for their extensive rehearsal process–the actors and Leigh work together to build and refine characters and dialogue. To work this way requires an extraordinary level of ...

Five years on from the events of March 2020, it seems the world as a whole is still processing those dark days. Mike Leigh has insisted that Hard Truths could take place at any time and any place, but ...

Hard Truths feels like a part of a tradition of moral films in the style of Eric ... What makes Mike Leigh’s films so watchable and enduring as works of art has to do with his innate curiosity.