The Hard Truths director on “growing” his films in collaboration with his actors, and why he’s not going to explain the ending to you.

Seven-time Oscar nominee Mike Leigh has reteamed with British actor ... We first broke news of the project, which was shot in London, last May. Hard Truths is described as a movie set in the ...

British director Mike Leigh’s return to domestic ... one that doesn’t end with the film's brilliant final shot but — we hope ...

You shot to fame after your first film with Mike ... British Film director Mike Leigh, surrounded by Brenda Blethyn (R) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (L) arrives for the screening of his film ...

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 ...

filmmaker Mike Leigh's process involved improvisational workshops and rehearsals with his actors, often done weeks before a single frame was even shot. The British writer-director worked on stage ...

So, when we see Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), the middle-aged protagonist of Mike Leigh’s marvelous Hard ... though a few tell-tale shots suggest that Pansy’s anxiety has entered a new ...

The title of Mike Leigh’s latest movie ... Toward the end, in a scene shot in the same cemetery where “Secrets & Lies” began, the sisters intimately discuss how their upbringing impacted ...

Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths” invites you to spend ... Dick Pope, underlines with a shot of her fearfully huffing up a set of stairs, her exhausted face peeking through the bars on the handrail ...