BRATTLEBORO — Latchis Arts and Ian Moran are partnering to present "Devised & Directed: The Films of Mike Leigh," a film and discussion series on four consecutive Saturdays this winter starting on Jan ...

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.

Look hard — and, in all likelihood, in vain — for a fiercer performance in the past year than Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s in Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths.” She plays Pansy, a Londoner who ...

Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), protagonist of Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths,” opening Friday in Houston, is not the first postmenopausal cinematic antiheroine to ask to speak to a manager.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a phenomenal performance as a profoundly unhappy woman. There isn't a lot of plot, but director ...

Jean-Baptiste did this, she says, to “stay honest”. And, well, because it’s the Mike Leigh way. Now, nearly 30 years after Secrets & Lies, Jean-Baptiste and Leigh have reunited for the ...

“Hard Truths” explores family dynamics through sisters: one angry and fearful, the other loving. Director Mike Leigh teamed up with Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Keep KCRW Independent. KCRW is here to ...

Mike Leigh is one of my favorite filmmakers, so naturally, I was among the first in Chicago to see his latest, Hard Truths, when it opened at the AMC River East last Thursday. I’d qualify this ...

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