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- A slow-burning depiction of economic degradation in Thatcher’s England, Mike Leigh’s Meantime is the culmination of the writer-director’s pioneering work in television. Unemployment is rampant in London’s working-class East End, where a middle-aged couple and their two sons languish in a claustrophobic public-housing flat.
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Meantime Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Brian Susbielles InSession Film. It’s a slice-of-life of struggle in the family with commonplace events that fall...
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- Picture 8/10
- Audio 6/10
- Extras 7/10
A slow-burning depiction of economic degradation in Thatcher’s England, Mike Leigh’s Meantime was the culmination of the writer-director’s pioneering work in television and became his breakthrough theatrical release. Unemployment is rampant in London’s working-class East End, where a middle-aged couple and their two sons languish in a claustrophobi...
Mike Leigh’s Meantime receives a much needed upgrade after a rather shoddy DVD edition release by Fox Lorber a looongtime ago. Though it was aired on television (and I believe made for the medium) the film had also screened at festivals so that probably explains why it is delivered here in the widescreen ratio of 1.66:1. The film is presented on a ...
Though the image on the old DVD didn’t help in any way, leading to a painful viewing, it was actually the audio on that disc that made the experience absolutely horrendous: it was incredibly tinny and distorted and it was brutal trying to understand any of the dialogue (even Tim Roth mentions how awful the audio was in the included interview found ...
Criterion gets a couple of new interviews, the first between Mike Leigh and Jarvis Cocker. The two talk about the film’s growing legacy, Leigh especially surprised by its longevity. It was made for television, basically aired and then disappeared before it apparently started showing up on bootlegs, recorded from the broadcast, and from there grew m...
A slow-burning depiction of economic degradation in Thatcher’s England, Mike Leigh’s Meantime is the culmination of the writer-director’s pioneering work in television. Unemployment is rampant in London’s working-class East End, where a middle-aged couple and their two sons languish in a claustrophobic public-housing flat.
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A made-for-TV story of an unemployment-wrecked family in Dalston that brought together fresh faced talents Tim Roth and Gary Oldman. Filled with the deadpan naturalism that became Leigh's signature.
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Aug 14, 2017 · A gorgeous, perceptively supplemented restoration of a pivotal early masterwork in Leigh’s career. Broadcast on British television in 1983, Meantime already finds Mike Leigh in full command of his brand of working-class tragicomedy. The film follows the downtrodden Pollock family, who live in a flat in London’s East End.
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.
