Topic: Mike Leigh

Bingham Ray was such a welcome figure -- with an irrepressible, sometimes wicked wit -- on the independent film scene that his sudden death Jan...
By Tim Walker. 7:28AM GMT . Comments . . Almost seven months after Mandrake disclosed that JK Rowling had dumped the agent who conjured up her...

U.K. awards for National fare

The National Theater emerged triumphant at the U.K.'s Critic's Circle Drama Awards, taking five of nine available nods.. In a show of strength, the...
Mike Leigh, the quintessentially British director behind such collaborative dramas as Happy-Go-Lucky, Vera Drake and Secrets & Lies, takes great...

Oliver Stone to be honored at S.F. Film Festival

0 View Larger Image . Oliver Stone, director of such notable films as "Wall Street" and "JFK" and Academy Award winner for "Platoon," "Born on the...
More ideas from Leigh . Mike Leigh: I'm reluctant to proclaim about what entertainment should or shouldn't do. You talk about reality shows and all...

DVD review: 'Topsy-Turvy' sparkles

0 View Larger Image . RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) . . Writer-director Mike Leigh writes his screenplays after working with actors for months, providing ...
David Seidler, who himself once suffered from a stammer, has won the Academy Award for his work on The King's Speech. The nominated films were:....

Oscar's rules written for the screen

Another year, another Oscar controversy. No, I'm not talking about Nazi sympathizers in The King's Speech. It's literally Another Year, Mike...

Mike Leigh Knows Incentives

There's a great little scene in Mike Leigh's new-ish film Another Year, which like most Mike Leigh films, is wonderful and also rather depressing...