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Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh
by Mike Leigh and Amy Raphael
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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.
About the authors:
Amy Raphael has been writing about music for the past ten years, moving on from fanzines to join the staff of The Face in 1990. After a year as Features Editor for Elle magazine, she is now a freelance journalist working for the NME, The Guardian, The Observer, The Face and Elle.
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Newer edition
Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh (2022)
by Mike Leigh and Amy Raphael
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Subject: Director > Mike Leigh
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