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Transilvania Film Festival programming heads on going against curatorial trends of major festivals: 'We should not be copying ...
In watching Hard Truths, the first film from writer-director Mike Leigh since 2018’s Peterloo, it’s hard not to think of the film in conjunction with the rest of his career, and in a way ...
and while “Urchin” lacks the sadism of Mike Leigh’s Thatcherite-era scream, it’s a credit to Dillane’s remarkable performance that the two movies seem capable of holding a conversation ...
British maestro Mike Leigh’s 23rd feature, Hard Truths, is an intense yet compassionate character study of Pansy Deacon (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a far from likeable person at first sight.
In a rare interview, the actress discusses tackling a difficult, sensitive and often dastardly role in the latest offering from Danny and Michael Philippou.
Sally Hawkins, fabled for her performances in Mike Leigh films like “Happy-Go-Lucky” and “All or Nothing,” and for her work in “The Shape of Water,” “Blue Jasmine,” “Spencer,” ...
It’s like an open window. Once you open it, you can’t close it again.” Of course, Mike Leigh and “Naked” came to mind while prepping the film, but also “Career Girls” and “High ...
The bubbliness of her character in Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky or the disarming warmth of her part in the Paddington films is still present in her portrayal of foster mother Laura, who takes in ...
It’s like a Mike Leigh movie where someone also stabs themselves in the mouth. Hawkins plays Laura like a real, pathetic, dangerous person who just happens to be up to something unimaginably ...
MCA underwent layoffs, with the Nashville label cuts staff and will restructure as a smaller unit under Mike Harris, ...
THR's executive editor of awards coverage makes the case for a wide variety of movie stars, auteurs, craftspeople, executives ...