Mike Leigh is one of the most prolific living filmmakers ... arrives to remind us that no one creates movies that enmesh tragedy and comedy quite as powerfully as he does. So obviously, now ...

“It would be a Mike Leigh heist movie.” Leigh is uninterested. “Let me know how that goes,” he cracks. “I’d watch it as long as I don’t have to make it.” He pauses, leaning over to ...

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 ...

In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about a unique body of work and a lifelong struggle to ...

Mike Leigh To Shoot New Film This Year, Re-Teaming With Bleecker Street, Studiocanal, Film4 & Cornerstone Ahead Of EFM Andreas Wiseman Fri, January 31, 2025 at 3:32 PM UTC ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Now in his 80s, the British filmmaker Mike Leigh is widely regarded as one of the great originals of world cinema – but there’s ...

Elsewhere, the likes of Mike Leigh, Riz Ahmed and Khalid Abdalla are among artists calling on the BBC to re-install 'Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone' on BBC iPlayer. By Lily Ford The BBC has ...

BAFTA winner and multiple Oscar nominee Mike Leigh discusses his early years at the BBC with Tom Brook from Talking Movies. In this interview he explains how he found fame directing the BBC Play ...

‘We can all deliver a speech” brags a 19th-century argumentifier, one of many crowding Mike Leigh’s impressive but imperfect political history Peterloo. As in his other period ...

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 ...

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Mike Leigh has written 5 shows including Ecstasy (Playwright), Goose-pimples (Playwright), Smelling a Rat (Playwright), Abigail's Party (Playwright), Two Thousand Years (Author). What awards has ...