Format:
xxvi, 575 pages
,
illustrations
,
24 cm
Edition:
Updated edition
ISBN:
9780571353828
,
0571353827
Content:
Machine generated contents note:Bleak Moments --Hard Labour --The Permissive Society --`The Five-Minute Films' --Nuts in May --The Kiss of Death --Abigail's Party --Who's Who --Grown-Ups --Home Sweet Home --Meantime --Pour Days in July --The Short and Curlies --High Hopes --Life Is Sweet --A Sense of History --Naked --Secrets & Lies --Career Girls --Topsy-Turvy --All or Nothing --Vera Drake --Happy-Go-Lucky --Another Year --A Running Jump --Mr. Turner --Peterloo.
Content:
"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."--Publisher description
Note:
Includes index
Language:
English
Keywords:
Leigh, Mike 1943-
;
Interview
Author information:
Leigh, Mike 1943-
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