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The empty philosophy of BrewDog’s James Watts
In a close-up portrait of an intolerably contemptuous woman, the veteran director returns to his miserabilist comic mode.
How does Mike Leigh make a movie? It's complicated, but his actors wouldn't have it any other way
he sat in King's Cross station and watched people go by — a very Mike Leigh thing to do. “Improvising is a way of making films,” he continues, leaning back on his chair as Jean-Baptiste nods. She’s ...
The hard truths of Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s decades-long ‘love fest’
In Mike Leigh’s latest movie, Hard Truths, a London family begins to splinter as an overbearing matriarch releases her ...
Marianne Jean-Baptiste on Hard Truths: ‘We tend to write off angry women’
Three decades after Secrets & Lies made her a star, the British actress has reunited with Mike Leigh – to give the ...
‘Hard Truths’ Co-Stars Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin Pull Back the Curtain on Mike Leigh’s Unique Directing Process
The title of Mike Leigh’s latest movie, “Hard Truths,” suggests a remarkable, career-spanning consistency, tracing back to the stage and screen director’s 1971 big-screen debut, “Bleak Moments.” For ...
50+ Years of Film with Mike Leigh
there are 10 possible films there, really. [Narrator] This is Mike Leigh. with his actors over months of research and ...
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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 ...
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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 & Lies.” ...
Mike Leigh Knows Someone Like Pansy, Too
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.