Books & the Arts / In “Hard Truths,” Leigh reminds us that a family dinner can tell the story of a whole society. J. Hoberman A spring morning on a quiet street in suburban North London. Inside an ...

Mike Leigh has managed to consistently create fantastic movies that tap into contemporary Britain with ease, exploring class, ...

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

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.

British cinema is known for various genres, from bawdy sex comedies to folk horror, but social realism remains the country's strongest and enduring output.

What we all need is a good bit of Mike Leigh, right ... miserabalism – the director behind Naked and Secrets & Lies and Meantime, and other ventures into the grim minutiae of failure and ...

WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has informed Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, that he will no longer be chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, according to a GOP leadership source and ...

His breakthrough came with a small but memorable role in Mike Leigh's Meantime, a TV movie that helped launch big screen careers for both the director and star. For Leigh, it paved the way for the ...

“Why can’t you enjoy life?” “I don’t know.” These two lines, spoken between the sisters Pansy and Chantelle in Mike Leigh’s new film Hard Truths, get you right in the heart. And Hard Truths is, ...

“People are saying this is ‘a film about mental health’ – a ‘post-Covid film’,” huffs Mike Leigh as he picks at his bobbled fleece and reflects on his 20th film, Hard Truths.

By David Sexton Mike Leigh’s first feature film, Bleak Moments, appeared almost 50 years ago, in 1971. For 40 years, working first in TV and then in film, he steadily produced his distinctive domestic ...

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