Binding: Paperback
Description: This new revised edition brings Mike Leigh's career up - to - date including his film about J. M. W. Turner Mr. Turner and his epic masterpiece Peterloo. Five - time Oscar nominee and BAFT a 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 humour 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 humour 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.
Title: Mike Leigh On Mike Leigh
Author(s): Leigh Mike, Amy Raphael
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Barcode: 9780571353828
Pages: 608 Pages
Publication Date: 1/18/2022
Category: Biography: Arts & Entertainment