Mike Leigh Starts Work on New Film Shooting This Year

Mike Leigh on Hard Truths and Universal Truths
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‘Hard Truths’ movie review: Mike Leigh’s painful portrait of depression
Mike Leigh's 'Hard Truths' is a bleak and hard-to-watch picture of one woman's experience of depression, played incredibly by Marianne Jean-Baptiste.
Mike Leigh Starts Work on New Film Shooting This Year with Support from Team Behind ‘Hard Truths'
Plot details on the film are under wraps as it's likely not even Leigh knows entirely what the film will be about. As is his practice, Leigh comes into a new work only with loose
Mike Leigh To Shoot New Film This Year, Re-Teaming With Bleecker Street, Studiocanal, Film4 & Cornerstone Ahead Of EFM
Bleecker Street released Leigh’s latest drama Hard Truths nationwide in the U.S. on January 10 after an awards qualifying run on December 6, with Studiocanal releasing in the UK today (January 31). Cornerstone handled international sales and is back aboard ahead of the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin.
Mike Leigh to Shoot Next Film This Year
On the day that “Hard Truths” opens in U.K. cinemas, details of the next feature from Mike Leigh - a filmmaker not exactly known for his prolific output - has already emerged. As per usual with the iconoclastic British director,
Mike Leigh (sort of) unpacks his new film Hard Truths
The legend of British cinema on his unique way of working, Marianne Jean-Baptiste's Bafta-nominated performance and what's next
British filmmaker Mike Leigh transfixes with his searing new comedy-drama, ‘Hard Truths’
British auteur Mike Leigh turns viewers into amateur psychiatrists with his transfixing new film, “Hard Truths,” and its main character, Pansy, played with astonishing force by Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Figuring out what’s bugging her is the challenge.
Mike Leigh’s Bafta-nominated Hard Truths will make you laugh and cry
The British director’s new film features a titanic performance from Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who reunites with him nearly three decades after his Oscar-nominated ‘Secrets & Lies’
Director Mike Leigh On The Improvisational Path to ‘Hard Truths’
The writer-director calls his movies “tightly scripted,” but the harrowingly funny ‘Hard Truths’ wasn’t scripted in any conventional sense. “Everything was created on
Mike Leigh's Hard Truths offers fresh and important take on depression
Where Mike Leigh's excellent movie Hard Truths differs from the deluge of mental health focused media is in its refusal to offer diagnosis. Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is not the easiest woman to get along with.
Mike Leigh names his four favourite movies of all time: “I can’t get enough”
Mike Leigh's back catalogue is nothing if not unique, an so, it makes sense that his selection of favourite movies would be equally as eclectic.
Hard Truths review: Mike Leigh makes a moving return to the domestic miseries of north London
Awareness of Mike Leigh ’s famous technique – improvising scripts from an initial singularity – invites speculation about the ...
Mike Leigh already has eyes on his next project
Mike Leigh is getting behind the camera to break your heart all over again sometime this year. The acclaimed director has set his next project with longtime collaborator Bleecker Street, per Deadline.
‘It’s rare to see a middle-aged Black woman in pain this way on screen’
‘We’re not used to seeing – especially in the UK – a middle-aged Black woman in pain on screen in this way. I think there’s ...
Four new films to see this week
Mike Leigh’s latest drama is ‘desperately moving’. Plus evocative doc on Edna O’Brien, a clever spin on The Stepford Wives, and a lovely, low-key anime from Japan ...
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Michele Austin Is Embracing Her Solitude
Michele Austin, muse of filmmaker Mike Leigh and one of the stars of his new family drama Hard Truths, has been a cornerstone ...