Seven reasons Mike Leigh is one of Britain's greatest filmmakers
Leigh is now 81, and he’s still producing brilliant films. Hard Truths has been nominated for two Baftas, for Outstanding ...
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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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‘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 ...
London Evening Standard6d
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 ...
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Marianne Jean-Baptiste triumphs at embodying vampiric rage in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths
It’s not a question of what will draw her ire but what won’t. Mike Leigh’s latest film, Hard Truths, continues his tradition of exploring the interiority of ‘difficult people,’ as he did with Naked, ...
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Film review: More quality from Mike Leigh with Hard Truths
IT'S been four years since Mike Leigh's last film, the searingly righteous Peterloo, which itself followed a four-year hiatus from Mr Turner. With 15 productions to his name, across five decades of ...
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Leigh Francis explains why you’re meant to find Keith Lemon funny
open image in gallery Leigh Francis as Keith Lemon (centre), alongside past ‘Celebrity Juice’ team captains Holly Willoughby (left) and Fearne Cotton (right) (ITV/Shutterstock) He explained ...