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Posts Tagged "Mike Leigh"
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Life Is Sweet ***** (1990, Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks) – Classic Movie Review 1875
If only all British comedy movies could be as brilliant as this! Writer-director Mike Leigh’s 1990 film is extremely sweet indeed – yes and of course just as sour, too. Leigh presents a desperately sad, […]
Career Girls *** (1997, Katrin Cartlidge, Lynda Steadman, Kate Byers, Andy Serkis) – Classic Movie Review 1874
A lightweight 1997 release from writer-director Mike Leigh lacks the subtlety, depth and epic scale of his much applauded previous outing, Secrets & Lies (1996). Some weird, crude performances harm the pleasures of his story […]
All or Nothing **** (2002, Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen) – Classic Movie Review 1873
Writer-director Mike Leigh’s 2002 gem stars his regular actor collaborator, British national treasure Timothy Spall, who is brilliant as Phil Bassett, a London cabbie wallowing in a sea of troubles and bad fares. Director Leigh’s […]
Vera Drake ***** (2004, Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Jim Broadbent, Eddie Marsan) – Classic Movie Review 1872
Award-winning Imelda Staunton is a revelation as Vera Drake, a cheery Fifties London cleaner, who has a secret life ‘helping young girls out’ as an abortionist. Performing an abortion is illegal in England at the […]
Naked ***** (1993, David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge) – Classic Movie Review 1871
Writer/director Mike Leigh’s 1993 eye-opener is one of his most powerful, controversial and uncompromising films, angering feminists big time. They booed and heckled him, trying to stop him speaking when he presented his movie at […]
Mr Turner ***** (2014, Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey) – Movie Review
With the help of Timothy Spall’s triumphant Cannes Best Actor performance, director Mike Leigh imaginatively explores the middle age to old last 25 years in the life of the great, eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner. Leigh’s […]
Secrets & Lies ***** (1996, Brenda Blethyn, Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Marianne Jean-Baptiste) – Classic Movie Review 721
Writer-director Mike Leigh’s much-lauded film was the triumphant winner of the Palme D’Or at Cannes in 1996. Brenda Blethyn hugely impresses in a Bafta, Cannes and Golden Globe-winning performance as Cynthia Rose Purley, a lonely and […]