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Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh (Directors on Directors) Book

Five-time Oscar nominee and BAFTA winner, the only British director to have won the top prize at both Cannes (for 'Secrets and Lies') and Venice (for 'Vera Drake'), Mike Leigh is one of world cinema's pre-eminent figures. This book reflects on all that has gone into the making of his unique body of work.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    Five-time Oscar nominee, BAFTA winner, the only British director to have won the top prize at both Cannes and Venice - Mike Leigh is unquestionably one of world cinema's pre-eminent figures. Now, in this definitive career-length interview...

  • Pickabook

    Mike Leigh, Amy Raphael (Editor)

  • Product Description

    An insightful collection of original interviews with the innovative director of Secrets & Lies
    A five-time Oscar nominee and BAFTA winner and 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 preeminent figures. First trained in theater, Leigh devised his own method for the making of first plays and then films, based on months of improvisation and rehearsal with actors prior to shooting. Leigh’s actors invent characters based on real people, each unaware of what the other is up to or the larger design Leigh has in mind.

    In their commingling of bleakness and humor, Leigh’s films re-create the tragicomic 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. Leigh speaks to Amy Raphael more openly than ever before about his life and inimitable working method, revealing himself as passionate, wise, and the owner of a dry and playful Mancunian wit.

  • 0571204694
  • 9780571204694
  • 17 April 2008
  • Faber and Faber
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 352
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