Mike Leigh On Mike Leigh

Author : Mike Leigh
Publisher : Faber & Faber Film
ISBN 13 : 9780571353828
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh written by Mike Leigh and published by Faber & Faber Film. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition updates Mike Leigh's career to his most recent films, Mister Turner and the epic masterpiece Peterloo. Five-time Oscar nominee and BAFTA winner, the only British director to have won the top prize at both Cannes (for Secrets & Lies) and Venice (for Vera Drake) - Mike Leigh is unquestionably one of world cinema's pre-eminent figures. Now, in this definitive career-length interview, he reflects on all that has gone into the making of his unique body of work. In their commingling of bleakness and humor, Leigh's films recreate the tragi-comic world of people whose everyday lives are far from glamorous: a world in which 'the done thing' usually prevails, contrary to our inner hopes, wants or needs. Leigh's work has always reflected its times and entered the vernacular, whether the harsh studies of Meantime and Naked or the humor of the now-legendary Abigail's Party and Nuts in May. Above all, Leigh is an accomplished storyteller, and these films deal with universal themes: births, marriages and deaths, parenthood and failed relationships, families and their secrets and lies. Within these pages Leigh speaks to Amy Raphael more openly than ever before of his life and inimitable working method, revealing himself as passionate, forthright, no sufferer of fools, but the owner of a dry and playful Mancunian wit.

Author : Mike Leigh
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578060689
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mike Leigh written by Mike Leigh and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected interviews with the British filmmaker of High Hopes, Life Is Sweet, and Secrets and Lies

Author : Sean O'Sullivan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252036387
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mike Leigh written by Sean O'Sullivan and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author discusses the British film director Mike Leigh through an examination of his films as well as several interviews with Leigh and finds that he is a director interested in cinema's formal, conceptual, and narrative dimensions.

Author : Bryan Cardinale-Powell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623565642
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Devised and Directed by Mike Leigh written by Bryan Cardinale-Powell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned for making films that are at once sly domestic satires and heartbreaking 'social realist' dramas, British writer-director Mike Leigh confronts his viewers with an un-romanticized dramatization of modern-day society in the hopes of inspiring them to strive for greater self-awareness and compassion for others. This collection features new, interdisciplinary essays that cover all phases of the BAFTA-award-winner's film career, from his early made-for-television film work to his theatrical releases, including Life is Sweet (1990), Naked (1993), Secrets & Lies (1996), Career Girls (1997), Topsy-Turvy (1999), All or Nothing (2002), Vera Drake (2004), Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) and Another Year (2010). With contributions from international scholars from a variety of fields, the essays in this collection cover individual films and the recurring themes and motifs in several films, such as representations of class and gender, and overt social commentary and political subtexts. Also covered are Leigh's visual stylizations and storytelling techniques ranging from explorations of the costume design to set design to the music and camerawork and editing; the collaborative process of 'devising and directing' a Mike Leigh film that involves character-building, world-construction, plotting, improvisations and script-writing; the process of funding and marketing for these seemingly 'uncommercial' projects, and a survey of Leigh's critical reception and the existing writing on his work.

Author : Raymond Carney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521485180
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Films of Mike Leigh written by Raymond Carney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carney examines one of the most important directors of British independent filmmaking.

Author : Michael Leigh
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1909923419
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Velvet Underground written by Michael Leigh and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2013-10-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swingers and swappers, strippers and streetwalkers, sadists, masochists, and sexual mavericks of every persuasion; all are documented in The Velvet Underground, a legendary exposé of the diseased underbelly of ’60s American society. The book that lent its name to the seminal New York rock’n’roll group, whose songs were to mirror its themes of depravity and social malaise. Welcome to the sexual twilight zone...

Author : Mike Leigh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571173860
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naked and Other Screenplays written by Mike Leigh and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three screenplays by Mike Leigh. Naked presents a bleak picture of urban society, Life is Sweet is a gentle comedy in which the pain of everyday life is borne with a wry smile, and High Hopes is a comedy of class-ridden life in contemporary Britain.

Author : Mike Leigh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Thousand Years written by Mike Leigh and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Two Thousand Years Mike Leigh explores, in a gentle tragi-comic way, a wide range of issues, including politics, religion, identity and the vexed question of Israel and the Middle East."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Mike Leigh
Publisher : Samuel French , Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goose-pimples written by Mike Leigh and published by Samuel French , Limited. This book was released on 1982 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mike Leigh
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571283039
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grief written by Mike Leigh and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1957. War widow Dorothy lives in a London suburb with her 15-year-old daughter Victoria and her older bachelor brother Edwin. More and more isolated from her married friends with their successful children, Dorothy tries to cope with Victoria's increasingly hostile behaviour. But is she doing her best, as she thinks, or is she in fact responsible for what threatens to become an unendurable situation?'A exquisitely observed, profoundly quiet slice of 1950s suburban life.' The Sunday Times'Meticulously evocative' Independent'Manville is magnificent in this broodingly muted family drama.' Sunday Express'Leigh makes you laugh and laugh - until you cry.' Time Out'A haunting portrait of loss and loneliness, exquisitely acted throughout and led by a riveting performance by Manville.' Financial Times'Leigh's meticulous production potently captures the pain that lurked behind stiff upper lips in the England of the Fifties.' Daily Telegraph'Nobody gets more truthful performances from actors than Mike Leigh.' The Times'The acting is superb.' Guardian'Leigh directs with sensitivity.' Evening Standard'Extraordinarily poignant' Independent on Sunday