Sentences with phrase «leigh films»

Though I've enjoyed — or admired — many other Leigh films, Happy - Go - Lucky is the first one that made me want to turn around and see it again, right away.

Many of the cast members are veterans of earlier Leigh films, including the pear - shaped, pouty - lipped Timothy Spall, whose character blinks back tears as his big song seems doomed in dress rehearsal.

(laughs) But then, you know, Eddie Marsan is someone Nick had worked with, and loved, and we were big fans of him, especially in the Mike Leigh films, so we wanted him to be in the movie.

The resulting portrait, with all its mystery and theater, is utterly fascinating and emotionally expansive, as only Mike Leigh films are.

It almost cries out to be a Mike Leigh film starring Jim Broadbent and other members of the director's stock company.

Spall, who played the very different part of the restaurant owner in Life Is Sweet, magisterially conveys a sense of goodness, and Jean - Baptiste in a much less showy part pulls off a rare feat in a Mike Leigh film: she escapes the writer - director's usual caricatural scorn for the middle class.

Not quite every year brings a new Mike Leigh film, but the years that do are blessed with his sympathy, penetrating observation, and instinct for human comedy.

The biggest UK opening for a Leigh film came from Happy - Go - Lucky, with # 385,000 from 77 cinemas.

It's been too long since we've had a Mike Leigh film, but four years is only long with Leigh because the gaps between his movies are felt more heavily than with most.

It's been too long since we've had a Mike Leigh film, but four years is only long with Leigh because the gaps between his movies are felt more heavily than

Naked (1993) Before Harry Potter, David Thewlis had a career as an actor, and I dare say his finest performance was captured in the Mike Leigh film, Naked.

Only three thesps (all women) have been Oscar - nominated for their work in a Leigh film — a number far smaller than it should be — and all of them, oddly enough, were tapped for their first collaboration with the director.

No one looks like a movie star in a Mike Leigh film, and he's assembled a dream team of previous collaborators here, with stalwarts like «Another Year» duo Ruth Sheen and Lesley Manville particularly standing out.

Her 167 credits include many grand British success stories — The King's Speech, The Theory of Everything, the Paddington movies and every Mike Leigh film since Topsy - Turvy.

I tthink the Academy members are almost always happy to see a Leigh film, particularly since there are so many actors in the organization (Leigh is definitely an actor favorite).

Another Year, Another Mike Leigh film, another masterpiece.

But then again, glancing at his C.V. you will see that his films which consist of mainly people talking and talking and talking have won pretty much every major world cinema prize imaginable, BAFTA, Oscar, Palm D'Or, Golden Lion, you name it, so the run - of - the - mill Mike Leigh film is pretty fucking excellent.

Another Year is typical of a Mike Leigh film in that it concentrates firmly on the characters in a thoroughly British setting.

This phenomenon we might call the Vera Drake syndrome, named after the relentlessly poignant and almost unwatchable Mike Leigh film that, in a case of mass critical psychosis, got good reviews in 2004 from almost everybody, including me.

For one thing, no male actor has been nominated for a performance in a Leigh film, despite some highly praised performances (including one by Spall himself in Leigh's only Best Picture nominee Secrets & Lies).

You wouldn't really expect any less from a Mike Leigh film that premiered at Cannes (where Spall won Best Actor honors) and opened in US theaters days before Christmas.

It's a deft act of performance - in - reverse, stripping away the character rather than building upon it, and it's arguably the showiest, most expansive turn we've yet seen in a Mike Leigh film.

A new Mike Leigh film is always an occasion, and this is no exception.

You know, the Mike Leigh film?

Yet even a misbegotten Mike Leigh film can't be all bad.

When I heard that the new Leigh film was called Happy - Go - Lucky, I had to laugh.

Last year, in the Mike Leigh film, «Mr. Turner» was depicted as a single - minded artist and dyspeptic loner who disdained his family, abused his housemaid, kept his romantic life strictly personal, and reveled in the fame and money his talent brought him.

In the Leigh film, Turner (played by Timothy Spall) flamboyantly adds a daub of red paint to a presumably finished seascape, walks away, then returns later with a rag to transform it into a buoy.

Not exact matches

Pulling off a lavish period film on such a small budget, Leigh admitted at a small press luncheon on Friday, was satisfying but also troubling.

«The film was made in the exact same process as my other films,» Leigh said.

Leigh's script - free films generally begin with his actors working for months to invent their characters, and then improvising situations in which those characters can interact.

Natalie Portman and Jennifer Jason Leigh have weighed in on accusations of whitewashing in their upcoming film Annihilation, agreeing that it's «problematic» but that they were unaware...

Not to say that there isn't other talents who tackle similar projects and important social issues in film (Shane Meadows and Mike Leigh spring to mind) but there really isn't anyone quite like Ken Loach.

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Mr. Turner was inexplicably ignored as Mike Leigh's films generally are.

With a strong supporting cast that includes James Marsden, Tim Robbins, Wes Bentley, Joan Cusack, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Linda Cardellini, Loretta Devine, and Thomas Mann, Shira Piven's film, from a script by Eliot Lawrence, earned very good reviews when it premiered in Toronto last fall, and it opens in limited release this weekend.

The film was written by Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber (500) DAYS OF SUMMER and also features wonderful supporting turns from Brie Larson, Kyle Chandler, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

Nestling somewhere between a documentary and an art film, between a Crimewatch re-enactment and the work of Mike Leigh, it is extremely difficult to pigeonhole it or to compare it readily with any film on a similar subject.

Mike Leigh's Naked is a great one — a film of brutal impact, withering wit and humanity.

Written and directed by Karen Leigh Hopkins, the film's tone looks to be all over the place, but it's good to see James Badge Dale as something other than a supporting character in an action blockbuster.

Other film credits include THE RACHEL PAPERS and Mike Leigh's NAKED.

Her parents got to see her Oscar - nominated performance in Mike Leigh's film Vera Drake, the role she still regards as the «big gear change... I think they were proud.

But now, more than ten years later, having pored over the film's array of buried politics, narrative cul - de-sacs, and ceaseless attention to custom and behavior, we can see that Mike Leigh, even when he changes costumes, is still very much himself.

Leigh and Hemming moved on to High Hopes (1986), Life Is Sweet (1989), and Naked (1992), hard - luck films as grim as they are forgiving, and each one grimmer, and more forgiving, than the last.

And as if perfectly timed to chime with those canvases in celluloid terms is Mr Turner, the ravishing film that stands as a testimonial to what one might call Late Leigh.

Johnson's supportive wife is played by the always excellent Jennifer Jason Leigh, but that's her sole purpose in the film; she's a character as dry as paint.

Other films that are definitely worth checking out that played at TIFF (and other festivals): Adam Wingard's rapturous and playful The Guest, Palm d'Or winner Winter Sleep, latest from master filmmakers Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne Two Days, One Night, 3 and a half hour epic Li» l Quinquin, harrowing street life portrait Heaven Knows What, ambitious and transcending Jauja, and Mike Leigh's exemplary Mr. Turner.

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But Criterion is also home to some of the finest contemporary filmmakers like Wes Anderson, Mike Leigh (Meantime), Kelly Reichardt (Certain Women), Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper), and Alexander Payne, whose Election has gotten the deluxe treatment accorded to films that are many decades old.

At the time of the film's release, critics praised Leigh for venturing out of what they deemed his comfort zone.