Mike Leigh famously says his method of filmmaking is to “devise and direct,” meaning, his actors devise their characters ...

Mike Leigh's 'Hard Truths' is a bleak and hard-to-watch picture of one woman's experience of depression, played incredibly by ...

While his reunion with “Secrets & Lies” star Marianne Jean-Baptiste for 2024’s “Hard Truths” may not have yielded the awards ...

Leigh is now 81, and he’s still producing brilliant films. Hard Truths has been nominated for two Baftas, for Outstanding ...

Mike Leigh's back catalogue is nothing if not unique, an so, it makes sense that his selection of favourite movies would be equally as eclectic.

The legend of British cinema on his unique way of working, Marianne Jean-Baptiste's Bafta-nominated performance and what's ...

Starring: Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Callina Liang, Eddy Maday and West Mulholland Director: Steven Soderbergh Email ...

The international rights for the project will likely be sold at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin. While his reunion with “Secrets & Lies” star Marianne Jean-Baptiste for 2024’s ...

Awareness of Mike Leigh ’s famous technique – improvising scripts from an initial singularity – invites speculation about the ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a fearless performance in Mike Leigh’s empathetic portrait of the outrageously hostile Pansy, whose hardened façade masks a real fragility.

Mike Leigh at the 68th BFI London Film Festival ... actors and work individually with each of them to find and create a character,” explains Leigh. “The characters are always pinned on real ...