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 ...

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

“There is nothing as full-bodied, creative, and terrifying as working on a Mike Leigh project,” says Jean-Baptiste. “You get to use all of your imagination in a way that’s not usually ...

"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 ...

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.

Mike Leigh's new film, "Hard Truths," can be tough stuff. Pansy Deacon is a middle-aged housewife living in London suburbs and always seems about to explode. She harangues her grown son ...

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 writer-director calls his movies “tightly scripted,” but the harrowingly funny ‘Hard Truths’ wasn’t scripted in any conventional sense. “Everything was created on ...