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Onsdag 15. februar 2012

Mike Leigh

The New York Times

Artikler om Mike Leigh fra nytimes.com. Senest opdateret 23. marts 2011
  • THEATER REVIEW; Plays That Grapple With Grief in War and Love

    LONDON -- People spend a lot of time looking out windows in the gorgeous new revival here of the World War II drama ''Flare Path'' at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. The majority of them are women, quietly watchful wives and partners awaiting the return safely home of the men they love but whom, in some cases, they don't really know. We pass an...

  • MOVIE REVIEW | 'ANOTHER YEAR'; Injustice, British and Otherwise

    Class consciousness has frequently played a role in Mike Leigh's films, and not only because, as a storyteller whose native terrain is modern Britain, he can hardly hope to avoid it. And sure enough, the observant viewer of his splendidly rich and wise new feature, ''Another Year,'' will notice the shadows that an always-evolving system of social...

  • MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE KING'S SPEECH'; The King's English, Albeit With Twisted Tongue

    British films that make it to American screens these days often fall into two distinct niches: life is miserable and life is sweet (to borrow a title from the director Mike Leigh, who oscillates between the two). Given its quality headliners and high commercial profile (ding-dong, is that Oscar calling?), it's no surprise that ''The King's...

Wikipedia

Mike Leigh (født 20. februar 1943), engelsk filminstruktør. Han er kendt for sine socialrealistiske film og for sin specielle metode, hvor han blot kommer med en ramme til optagelserne og så sammen med skuespillerne fylder improviserer handlingen frem.

Udvalgte filmpriser

  • 2004 - Guldløven i Venedig for Vera Drake.
  • 2000 - Oscarnominering for Topsy-Turvy.
  • 1997 - Oscarnominering for Hemmeligheder og Løgne.
  • 1996 - Den Gyldne Palme for Hemmeligheder og Løgne.
  • 1992 - Bodil for Life is Sweet.

Filmografi

  • Bleak Moments (1971)
  • Hard Labour (1973)
  • Nuts in May (BBC Play for Today, 1976)
  • Abigail's Party (BBC Play for Today, 1977)
  • Grown-Ups (1980)
  • Meantime (1983)
  • The Short and Curlies (1987)
  • High Hopes (1988)
  • 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 (2007)
  • Another Year (2010)
  • Fold ud

Skuespil

  • The Box Play (1965)
  • My Parents Have Gone to Carlisle (1966)
  • The Last Crusade of Five Little Nuns (1966)
  • Individual Fruit Pies (1968)
  • Glum Victoria and the Lad with Specs (1969)
  • Bleak Moments (1970)
  • A Rancid Pong (1971)
  • Wholesome Glory (1973)
  • The Jaws of Death (1973)
  • Dick Whittington and his Cat (1973)
  • Babies Grow Old (1974)
  • The Silent Majority (1974)
  • Abigail's Party (1977)
  • Too Much of a Good Thing (1979; BBC radio)
  • Ecstasy (1979)
  • Goose-Pimples (1981)
  • Smelling a Rat (1988)
  • Greek Tragedy (1989)
  • It's a Great Big Shame! (1993)
  • Two Thousand Years (2005)
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