In Mike Leigh’s latest movie, Hard Truths, a London family begins to splinter as an overbearing matriarch releases her ...

Having started his career in the theater, Mike Leigh knows to put a lot of trust in his actors. Unlike most auteurs who begin the process of building a new project by writing a script, Leigh ...

there are 10 possible films there, really. [Narrator] This is Mike Leigh. with his actors over months of research and ...

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.

Mike Leigh was born on Feb. 20 ... London's experimental fringe theater scene of the 1960s set the backdrop for Leigh's artistic vision, and in 1971, he made his feature film writing and ...

You're unlikely to find a fiercer performance in the past year than Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s in Mike Leigh’s “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 ...

It’s amazing watching Mike Leigh’s film Hard Truths, starring the extraordinary Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin, in an American theater. Another layer is added as audience members ...

The Glasgow Film Theatre has announced its programme for January with a season devoted to legendary British director Mike Leigh. The GFT has a programme packed with some of the biggest award ...

Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths” invites you to ... Pansy is so overcome that she falls silent. In my theater, the hushed tension spread from the screen to the seats. Everyone held their breath.