Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh
Title | Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh PDF eBook |
Author | Mike Leigh |
Publisher | Faber & Faber Film |
Pages | 560 |
Release | 2021-10-07 |
Genre | Motion picture producers and directors |
ISBN | 9780571353828 |
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.
Mike Leigh
Title | Mike Leigh PDF eBook |
Author | Mike Leigh |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781578060689 |
Collected interviews with the British filmmaker of High Hopes, Life Is Sweet, and Secrets and Lies
The Films of Mike Leigh
Title | The Films of Mike Leigh PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond Carney |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2000-06-19 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780521485180 |
Carney examines one of the most important directors of British independent filmmaking.
Devised and Directed by Mike Leigh
Title | Devised and Directed by Mike Leigh PDF eBook |
Author | Bryan Cardinale-Powell |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 589 |
Release | 2013-07-22 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1623565642 |
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.
Goose-pimples
Title | Goose-pimples PDF eBook |
Author | Mike Leigh |
Publisher | Samuel French , Limited |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
Grief
Title | Grief PDF eBook |
Author | Mike Leigh |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Pages | 131 |
Release | 2012-04-03 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0571283039 |
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
The Velvet Underground
Title | The Velvet Underground PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Leigh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011-10 |
Genre | Fetishism (Sexual behavior) |
ISBN | 9781902588827 |
Swingers and swappers, strippers and streetwalkers, sadists, masochists, and sexual mavericks of every persuasion; all are documented in this legendary expose of the diseased underbelly of '60s American society. The legendary sexology book that lent its name to the seminal New York rock'n'roll group THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, led by Lou Reed, whose songs were to mirror its themes of depravity and social malaise. Subjects range from mail-order pornography and prostitution to bondage and SM parties, orgies, and clandestine sex clubs. In 1966 the book was picked up on by Lou Reed, a young New York musician who had just formed a band, The Falling Spikes. Reed immediately changed the band's name to The Velvet Underground, became Andy Warhol's house band, wrote a raft of songs based on sleaze and the demi-monde, and the rest is history...