Search results
Meantime is a 1983 British comedy-drama television film directed by Mike Leigh and produced by Central Television for Channel 4. It stars Tim Roth, Phil Daniels and Gary Oldman. It was shown in 1983 at the London Film Festival and on Channel 4 and at the 1984 Berlin International Film Festival. According to the critic Michael Coveney, "the ...
Bleak Moments is a 1971 British comedy-drama film by Mike Leigh in his directorial debut. Leigh's screenplay is based on a 1970 stage play at the Open Space Theatre, about the dysfunctional life of a young secretary.
Abigail's Party is a play for stage and television, devised and directed in 1977 by Mike Leigh. It is a suburban situation comedy of manners, and a satire on the aspirations and tastes of the new middle class that emerged in Britain in the 1970s. The play developed in lengthy improvisations during which Mike Leigh explored the characters with ...
Nov 10, 2021 · Among his richest films, Mike Leigh’s quartet of period pieces are perfect examples of how to – in his words – make period films that don’t just look like costume dramas.
Four Days in July is a 1984 [1] [2] [3] [4] television film by Mike Leigh. Set and filmed in Belfast, the film explores the Troubles by following the daily lives of ...
Life Is Sweet is a 1990 British comedy-drama film directed by Mike Leigh, starring Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks and Timothy Spall. Leigh's third cinematic film, it was his most commercially successful title at the time of release. A tragi-comic story, it follows the fortunes of a working-class North London ...
Jul 1, 2020 · My home life was a battlefield: Mike Leigh tells of early traumas. Film director Mike Leigh is to talk for the first time about the impact of childhood conflict on his art and the decision by his ...
