“People are saying this is ‘a film about mental health’ – a ‘post-Covid film’,” huffs Mike Leigh as he picks at his bobbled fleece and reflects on his 20th film, Hard Truths. “That ...

It has been 28 years since Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste worked together on a project, the pair’s breakout 1996 drama “Secrets & Lies,” which earned both Leigh and Jean-Baptiste ...

When the British filmmaker Mike Leigh was 6, his father, a doctor who opposed his son becoming an artist, told him to quit drawing pictures of people.

EXCLUSIVE: Filming is expected to start later this year on Mike Leigh’s next project, which will see the acclaimed writer-director reuniting with recent collaborators Cornerstone, Bleecker ...

In a way, Leigh never stopped. In his six decades making movies, the 81-year-old Leigh has made some of the most humanistic movies in cinema, many of them character studies of ordinary, working ...

Mike Leigh, right, writer/director of the film "Hard Truths," poses with cast member Marianne Jean-Baptiste during the Toronto International Film Festival, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, in Toronto.