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 film. It is a process that has yielded some of cinema's most celebrated ...

“People are saying this is ‘a film about mental health’ – a ‘post-Covid film’,” huffs Mike Leigh as he picks at ... Vera Drake (2004), the 81-year-old is both charming and difficult ...

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: Filming is expected to start later this year on Mike Leigh's next project ... families still find ways to love one another. Leigh is a seven-time Oscar nominee, thirteen-time BAFTA ...

‘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 ...

For more than 50 years, Mike Leigh has been one of Britain's most prolific and celebrated filmmakers. At 81, he's still going strong, recently releasing Hard Truths, which has been nominated for a ...

Michael "Mike ... Tokyo." Leigh begins his projects without a script, but starts from a basic premise which is developed through improvisation by the actors. Leigh works initially one-to-one ...