Mike Leigh On Mike Leigh

Author : Mike Leigh
Publisher : Faber & Faber Film
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 0571353827

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Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh by Mike Leigh Pdf

This new edition updates Mike Leigh's career to his most recent films, Mister Turner and the epic masterpiece Peterloo. Five-time Oscar nominee and BAFTA winner, the only British director to have won the top prize at both Cannes (for Secrets & Lies) and Venice (for Vera Drake) - Mike Leigh is unquestionably one of world cinema's pre-eminent figures. Now, in this definitive career-length interview, he reflects on all that has gone into the making of his unique body of work. In their commingling of bleakness and humor, Leigh's films recreate the tragi-comic world of people whose everyday lives are far from glamorous: a world in which 'the done thing' usually prevails, contrary to our inner hopes, wants or needs. Leigh's work has always reflected its times and entered the vernacular, whether the harsh studies of Meantime and Naked or the humor of the now-legendary Abigail's Party and Nuts in May. Above all, Leigh is an accomplished storyteller, and these films deal with universal themes: births, marriages and deaths, parenthood and failed relationships, families and their secrets and lies. Within these pages Leigh speaks to Amy Raphael more openly than ever before of his life and inimitable working method, revealing himself as passionate, forthright, no sufferer of fools, but the owner of a dry and playful Mancunian wit.

Author : Mike Leigh
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578060680

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Mike Leigh by Mike Leigh Pdf

Collected interviews with the British filmmaker of High Hopes, Life Is Sweet, and Secrets and Lies

Author : Sean O'Sullivan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252036385

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Mike Leigh by Sean O'Sullivan Pdf

The author discusses the British film director Mike Leigh through an examination of his films as well as several interviews with Leigh and finds that he is a director interested in cinema's formal, conceptual, and narrative dimensions.

Author : Bryan Cardinale-Powell,Marc DiPaolo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781623565640

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Devised and Directed by Mike Leigh by Bryan Cardinale-Powell,Marc DiPaolo Pdf

Renowned for making films that are at once sly domestic satires and heartbreaking 'social realist' dramas, British writer-director Mike Leigh confronts his viewers with an un-romanticized dramatization of modern-day society in the hopes of inspiring them to strive for greater self-awareness and compassion for others. This collection features new, interdisciplinary essays that cover all phases of the BAFTA-award-winner's film career, from his early made-for-television film work to his theatrical releases, including Life is Sweet (1990), Naked (1993), Secrets & Lies (1996), Career Girls (1997), Topsy-Turvy (1999), All or Nothing (2002), Vera Drake (2004), Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) and Another Year (2010). With contributions from international scholars from a variety of fields, the essays in this collection cover individual films and the recurring themes and motifs in several films, such as representations of class and gender, and overt social commentary and political subtexts. Also covered are Leigh's visual stylizations and storytelling techniques ranging from explorations of the costume design to set design to the music and camerawork and editing; the collaborative process of 'devising and directing' a Mike Leigh film that involves character-building, world-construction, plotting, improvisations and script-writing; the process of funding and marketing for these seemingly 'uncommercial' projects, and a survey of Leigh's critical reception and the existing writing on his work.

Author : Raymond Carney,Leonard Quart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000-06-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521485185

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The Films of Mike Leigh by Raymond Carney,Leonard Quart Pdf

Carney examines one of the most important directors of British independent filmmaking.

Author : Mike Leigh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Drama
ISBN : UCSC:32106018529054

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Two Thousand Years by Mike Leigh Pdf

"In Two Thousand Years Mike Leigh explores, in a gentle tragi-comic way, a wide range of issues, including politics, religion, identity and the vexed question of Israel and the Middle East."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Michael Leigh
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781909923416

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The Velvet Underground by Michael Leigh Pdf

Swingers and swappers, strippers and streetwalkers, sadists, masochists, and sexual mavericks of every persuasion; all are documented in The Velvet Underground, a legendary exposé of the diseased underbelly of ’60s American society. The book that lent its name to the seminal New York rock’n’roll group, whose songs were to mirror its themes of depravity and social malaise. Welcome to the sexual twilight zone...

Author : Ronald Searle
Publisher : Souvenir Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05
Category : Illustrators
ISBN : 0285644203

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To the Kwai and Back by Ronald Searle Pdf

In 1941 Ronald Searle was made a prisoner of war by the Japanese, after 14 months in a POW camp he was sent to work on the Burma Railway until May 1944 when he was sent to the notorious Changi prison. Throughout his captivity Searle drew to record his experiences, hiding the drawings, and they have been become to be recognised as among the greatest, and most moving, record of WW2. Searle has described the book as "the grafitti of a condemned man... who found himself--to his surprise and delight -- among the reprieved."

Author : Mike Leigh
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1854593161

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Smelling a Rat by Mike Leigh Pdf

Rex Weasel, owner of the Vermination Pest Control Company, has returned home from holiday unexpectedly and without his wife. Hoping to lay low, his plans are rudely interrupted when one of his employees, Vic Maggot and his wife, Charmaine, drop in to check on the apartment. They're not even supposed to be there as Vic is filling in for another of Rex's employees. To complicate matters further, the Weasels' estranged son, Rocky shows up with his girlfriend, Melanie-Jane.

Author : Mike Leigh
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571283033

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Grief by Mike Leigh Pdf

1957. War widow Dorothy lives in a London suburb with her 15-year-old daughter Victoria and her older bachelor brother Edwin. More and more isolated from her married friends with their successful children, Dorothy tries to cope with Victoria's increasingly hostile behaviour. But is she doing her best, as she thinks, or is she in fact responsible for what threatens to become an unendurable situation?'A exquisitely observed, profoundly quiet slice of 1950s suburban life.' The Sunday Times'Meticulously evocative' Independent'Manville is magnificent in this broodingly muted family drama.' Sunday Express'Leigh makes you laugh and laugh - until you cry.' Time Out'A haunting portrait of loss and loneliness, exquisitely acted throughout and led by a riveting performance by Manville.' Financial Times'Leigh's meticulous production potently captures the pain that lurked behind stiff upper lips in the England of the Fifties.' Daily Telegraph'Nobody gets more truthful performances from actors than Mike Leigh.' The Times'The acting is superb.' Guardian'Leigh directs with sensitivity.' Evening Standard'Extraordinarily poignant' Independent on Sunday

Author : Mike Leigh,Graham Fuller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0571173861

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Naked and Other Screenplays by Mike Leigh,Graham Fuller Pdf

Three screenplays by Mike Leigh. Naked presents a bleak picture of urban society, Life is Sweet is a gentle comedy in which the pain of everyday life is borne with a wry smile, and High Hopes is a comedy of class-ridden life in contemporary Britain.

Author : Mike Leigh
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780241981337

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Abigail's Party by Mike Leigh Pdf

40th anniversary edition with a new introduction by Mike Leigh. Forty years on from its first performance at the Hampstead Theatre and original screening on BBC1 soon after, Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party - telling of two marriages spectacularly unravelling at an awkward neighbourhood drinks party - remains a pinnacle of British theatre. Here is the original script, complete with a new introduction by Mike Leigh describing the play's unlikely genesis, how it came to be made and where he believes it fits within his oeuvre as one of the country's leading writers and directors. 'The play came from my intuitive sense of the spirit and the flavour of the times, and from a growing personal fear of, and frustration with the suburban existence' Mike Leigh, from his new introduction 'Leigh's play isn't simply about marriage and Essex, but also about the unhappy state of the realm' Guardian

Author : Mike Leigh
Publisher : Samuel French , Limited
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015001726127

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Goose-pimples by Mike Leigh Pdf

Author : Judith Weston Judith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1615933212

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Directing Actors - 25th Anniversary Edition by Judith Weston Judith Pdf

Directing film or television is a high-stakes occupation. It captures your full attention at every moment, calling on you to commit every resource and stretch yourself to the limit; it's the white-water rafting of entertainment jobs. But for many directors, the excitement they feel about a new project tightens into anxiety when it comes to working with actors.In the years since the original edition of Directing Actors was published, the technical side of filmmaking has become much more easily accessible. Directors tell me that dealing with actors is the last frontier--the scariest part and the part they long for--the human part, the place where connection happens.Weston's books help directors scale the heights of the actor-director dynamic, learn the joys of collaborating with actors--and become an "actor's director."

Author : Edward Trostle Jones
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0820467456

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All Or Nothing by Edward Trostle Jones Pdf

This critical study of Mike Leigh's cinema is a comprehensive assessment of his thirty plus years in film, including his television features, from the first feature-length Bleak Moments to All or Nothing. Through his own species of tragicomedy and favored thematic content concentrating on relationships, Leigh enlarges the emotional boundaries of cinema for performers and audience alike. His deep and fully realized characters often subvert both decorum and irony traditionally associated with British film and television. Leigh's sense of the reciprocity and interpenetration of the material mundane, the ridiculous, and the humanistic sublime brings respect for the complexity of the ordinary and merits celebration within the democratic and demotic art of film.