That’s what Mike Leigh, the 82-year-old director of such classics as High Hopes, Secrets and Lies, Topsy-Turvy, Career Girls, and Mr. Turner says when a journalist meeting him for an interview ...

Having grown up in the rubble of post-WWII Great Britain, Leigh knows the impact fascism can have perhaps more than most. “I’ve been to the States in the last few weeks,” Leigh said during a ...

By Bryan Antunez “I think Anora is a great film, I really do,” the legendary English filmmaker Mike Leigh told The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast this week while promoting his ...

With a long production initially delayed by lockdown, Hard Truths is also Leigh’s return to a contemporary domestic setting after the historical dramas Mr Turner (2014) and Peterloo (2018).

The U.S. premiere of Hard Truths at the New York Film Festival in October brings director Mike Leigh back to the podcast for the third time (Ep. 54 and Ep. 204). He talks about working again with ...

Such was the case over the last few weeks as British writer/director Mike Leigh took some time across the pond for the U.S. nationwide release of his new feature, “Hard Truths.” “I’ve been ...

"Hard Truths" star Marianne Jean-Baptiste and director Mike Leigh, photographed in Santa Monica in January. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) There’s a mythology that surrounds Mike Leigh ...

Marking 45 years since the publication of Agatha Christie's last Miss Marple novel, 'Marple: Twelve New Stories', a collection of ingenious stories by acclaimed authors who also happen to be ...

Since English filmmaker Leigh wrote and directed 2008’s wonderful Happy-Go-Lucky, which starred Sally Hawkins as the most positive woman in London, I should’ve known a movie about the most ...

In an interview with The Times, Leigh, 81, responded to those questioning whether he had the right, as a white filmmaker, to direct a project featuring an almost entirely Black cast.

By Scott Feinberg Executive Editor of Awards Leigh’s films have won the top prizes of both the Cannes and Venice film festivals, something no other Brit has ever been able to claim. He ...