Mike Leigh Starts Work on New Film Shooting This Year with Support from Team Behind ‘Hard Truths’
While his reunion with “Secrets & Lies” star Marianne Jean-Baptiste for 2024’s “Hard Truths” may not have yielded the awards ...
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Hard Truths review: Mike Leigh makes a moving return to the domestic miseries of north London
Awareness of Mike Leigh’s famous technique – improvising scripts from an initial singularity – invites speculation about the film that got away. Never more so than with his flintily moving ...
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Director Mike Leigh On The Improvisational Path to ‘Hard Truths’
“The crew comes and shoots the thing in a classical way in terms of film discipline.” Mike Leigh at the 68th BFI London Film Festival at The Corinthia Hotel on October 15, 2024 in ...
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Hard Truths director Mike Leigh: 'I make films for audiences to see, not for awards'
“Why can’t you enjoy life?” “I don’t know.” These two lines, spoken between the sisters Pansy and Chantelle in Mike Leigh’s new film Hard Truths, get you right in the heart. And Hard Truths is, ...
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Mike Leigh’s ‘Hard Truths’ Is a Bitter Pill
Since English filmmaker Leigh wrote and directed 2008’s wonderful Happy-Go-Lucky, which starred Sally Hawkins as the most positive woman in London, I should’ve known a movie about the most ...
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Vaping is seriously harmful to your vibe
By David Sexton Mike Leigh’s first feature film, Bleak Moments, appeared almost 50 years ago, in 1971. For 40 years, working first in TV and then in film, he steadily produced his distinctive domestic ...
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‘Hard Truths’ review: quiet devastation and laugh-out-loud rants from legendary director Mike Leigh
Hard Truths is Jean-Baptiste’s second on-screen collaboration with Mike Leigh, the veteran director who has honed a unique film-making method over 50 years. Leigh never gives his actors a script ...
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Hard Truths’ Mike Leigh, Marianne Jean Baptiste & Michele Austin on their new film and those annoying everyday things
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 ...
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Gary Oldman's First Major Role Was as a Skinhead in This Blistering Slow-Burn Comedy
His breakthrough came with a small but memorable role in Mike Leigh's Meantime, a TV movie that helped launch big screen careers for both the director and star. For Leigh, it paved the way for the ...
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Mike Leigh Loves ‘Anora’: “Massively Impressive” (Exclusive)
By Bryan Antunez “I think Anora is a great film, I really do,” the legendary English filmmaker Mike Leigh told The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast this week while promoting his ...
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Marianne Jean-Baptiste on changes in US: It feels like going backwards in time
Michele Austin, director Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste at the BFI London Film Festival gala screening of Hard Truths (Ian West/PA) PA Wire Her new film Hard Truths sees her reunite with ...