Although clearly a man of the left, Leigh (like Dickens) is less interested in society than human nature. Some of his ...

Mike Leigh famously says his method of filmmaking is to “devise and direct,” meaning, his actors devise their characters under The post Mike Leigh on Hard Truths and Universal Truths appeared first on ...

Leigh is now 81, and he’s still producing brilliant films. Hard Truths has been nominated for two Baftas, for Outstanding ...

With Mike Leigh, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Sean Baker. Show more Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode explore the visionary world of veteran British filmmaker Mike Leigh, as he returns with Hard Truths ...

That’s what Mike Leigh, the 82-year-old director of such classics as High Hopes, Secrets and Lies, Topsy-Turvy, Career Girls, and Mr. Turner says when a journalist meeting him for an interview ...

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 ...

The international rights for the project will likely be sold at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin. While his reunion with “Secrets & Lies” star Marianne Jean-Baptiste for 2024’s ...

“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 ...