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April 4, 2019
Real-life referents and improvised storytelling in Peterloo help audiences experience the events that led to the infamous 19th century British…
February 20, 2017
Criterion releases Ermanno Olmi’s 19th century rural epic The Tree of Wooden Clogs which updates Italian neorealism in 1978, winning…
December 17, 2014
"Implosive, curious mind... beautiful, grandiloquent language." That's Timothy Spall describing Joseph Mallord William Turner, whose mantle the actor takes on…
December 17, 2014
Wickedly observant, consummately English, a cinematic storyteller par excellence: Mike Leigh is the award-winning writer-director behind Naked (1993), Secrets &…
February 8, 1994
Like his movies, British filmmaker Mike Leigh is confrontational and acerbic, with a dark wit and strong opinions. But Leigh,