Mike Leigh’s Love Affair with Real Life In his new film, “Hard Truths,” the director returns to his favorite mode: building intimate portraits of regular people, from the ground up.

For her Treat, Lynskey expresses a profound admiration for British director Mike Leigh’s style of filmmaking. Seeing his film Naked as a teenager made quite the impression on Lynskey. She shares how ...

In Mike Leigh's newest film, Marianne Jean-Baptiste stars as an overly critical woman struggling with her mental health. Leigh and Jean-Baptiste talk with NPR's Scott Simon about "Hard Truths." ...

The co-stars, who first played sisters in a 1993 Mike Leigh play, explain the iconoclastic director's unique method and how 'Hard Truths' took shape.

Mike Leigh is one of the most prolific living filmmakers, an acolyte of the human condition. With a body of work that ranges from micro-dramas to period-set opulence, Leigh makes films that never ...

Hard Truths Review. Hard Truths (2024) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Mike Leigh and starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, David Webber ...

Abigail’s Theatre at Stratford East Theatre – ★★★★☆ In Mike Leigh’s early play Abigail’s Party, almost nothing happens: even the titular shindig takes place next door. Instead ...

Mike Leigh, writer/director of the film "Hard Truths," poses for a portrait during the Toronto International Film Festival, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, in Toronto.

This production by filmmaker and G&S enthusiast Mike Leigh was rather coolly received as unadventurous when new in 2015, but now revived by Sarah Tipple it flows well, with plenty of energy and a ...

Leigh has made moving movies about the underdog, such as his previous fact-based historical epic about a proletarian rebellion, 2018’s Peterloo.

Two Netflix Originals and new movies from Mike Leigh, Joshua Oppenheimer, Gia Coppola and Edward Berger will vie for San Sebastian’s top Golden Shell this September. The festival features a main ...

When the British filmmaker Mike Leigh was 6, his father, a doctor who opposed his son becoming an artist, told him to quit drawing pictures of people.