All posts tagged "Mike Leigh"
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Directing
Peterloo: Director Mike Leigh Doesn’t Play It Safe With His 19th Century Period Drama
April 4, 2019To make Peterloo—my new film based on the Peterloo Massacre of 1819, during which tens of thousands...
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Criterion Crash Course
Criterion Crash Course: Moviemaking Lessons From Criterion’s The Tree of Wooden Clogs
February 20, 2017Whether you’re a moviemaker, critic or devoted film collector, lovers of cinema can all agree: A...
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Acting
Art School Confidential: Timothy Spall on Painting the Sublime in Mr. Turner
December 17, 2014“Implosive, curious mind… beautiful, grandiloquent language.” That’s Timothy Spall describing Joseph Mallord William Turner, whose mantle...
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Things Learned
Things I’ve Learned: Mike Leigh
December 17, 2014Wickedly observant, consummately English, a cinematic storyteller par excellence: Mike Leigh is the award-winning writer-director behind...
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Directing
“I Make Populist Entertainment Films:” Mike Leigh on Naked
February 8, 1994Like his movies, British filmmaker Mike Leigh is confrontational and acerbic, with a dark wit and...
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