Although clearly a man of the left, Leigh (like Dickens) is less interested in society than human nature. Some of his ...

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

Mike Leigh is getting behind the camera to break your heart all over again sometime this year. The acclaimed director has set his next project with longtime collaborator Bleecker Street, per Deadline.

We welcome director Mike Lee back to the show. He talks with us about his recent film Hard Truths and what it was like to ...

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

On the day that “Hard Truths” opens in U.K. cinemas, details of the next feature from Mike Leigh — a filmmaker not exactly known for his prolific output — has already emerged. As per usual with the ...

“Hard Truths,” the latest film from Mike Leigh, could easily have been called “Hurt People.” And we all know what hurt people do.

Jean-Baptiste did this, she says, to “stay honest”. And, well, because it’s the Mike Leigh way. Now, nearly 30 years after Secrets & Lies, Jean-Baptiste and Leigh have reunited for the ...

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 ...

Look hard — and, in all likelihood, in vain — for a fiercer performance in the past year than Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s in Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths.” She plays Pansy, a Londoner who ...