Mike Leigh and his longtime collaborator Marianne Jean-Baptiste search for answers in their latest tour de force
Leigh never lets his audience escape the underlying humiliation and helplessness Pansy feels, and Pansy never allows herself ...
‘Awards Chatter' Pod - Mike Leigh on ‘Hard Truths,' Mysterious Methods, Theatrical vs. Streaming and Loving ‘Anora'
Mike Leigh, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast, is one of the greatest English ...
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Marianne Jean-Baptiste Gives a Performance for the Ages in “Hard Truths”
In his excoriatingly funny new film, the British realist Mike Leigh reunites with a key actor from his 1996 triumph, “Secrets ...
How Marianne Jean-Baptiste Found 'Compassion' for Mike Leigh's 'Hard Truths'
"By the time an actor gets to the point of improvisation in a Mike Leigh process, they've got a whole person that they're working with," Marianne Jean-Baptiste tells Newsweek.
How does Mike Leigh make a movie? It's complicated, but his actors wouldn't have it any other way
There’s a mythology that surrounds Mike Leigh’s films. And like with any shared lore, not all of it is true. One ...
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Mike Leigh’s Nearly Great Peterloo
‘We can all deliver a speech” brags a 19th-century argumentifier, one of many crowding Mike Leigh’s impressive but imperfect political history Peterloo. As in his other period ...
‘Hard Truths’: Read The Screenplay That Returns Seven-Time Oscar Nominee Mike Leigh To Modern London
Hard Truths, from seven-time Oscar-nominated writer-director Mike Leigh, reunited him with his Secrets & Lies star Marianne ...