There’s a mythology that surrounds Mike Leigh’s films ... (they’ve also done a play and a film score together). For “Hard Truths,” the director had initially approached Jean-Baptiste ...

Director Mike Leigh vividly remembers the 1997 Academy ... during the Toronto International Film Festival. Jean-Baptiste lost ...

EXCLUSIVE: Filming is expected to start later this year on Mike Leigh’s next project, which will see the acclaimed writer-director reuniting ... the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin.

But his latest, Hard Truths, was snubbed by the Academy this year, even though it was showered with accolades elsewhere, ...

After a career spanning 60 years, British film-maker Mike Leigh is considered the godfather of British cinema. He's got experience as an actor, producer, screenwriter and director - and he's used ...

Michael "Mike" Leigh, OBE (born 20 February 1943) is a British writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and studied further at the ...

Now in his 80s, the British filmmaker Mike Leigh is widely regarded as ... Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who last worked with Leigh on the 1996 film Secrets and Lies, returns here as the unforgettable ...

History lives in the film’s words and images but succumbs in the end to leftist rhetoric. ‘We can all deliver a speech” brags a 19th-century argumentifier, one of many crowding Mike Leigh ...

In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies ... On day one of a Mike Leigh film, there is no script, no story and the actors do not know if they will even be in the final ...

Elsewhere, the likes of Mike Leigh, Riz Ahmed and Khalid Abdalla are ... acknowledging “unacceptable flaws”. The film follows four teenage boys through the conflict in Gaza, and pro-Israel ...

This clip shows film director, Mike Leigh working with actors on character-based improvisation.

Michael "Mike" Leigh, OBE (born 20 February 1943) is a British writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and studied further at the ...