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Director Mike Leigh presents another slice-of-life drama--this time focusing on a family of acerbic, terminally unemployed working-class Britons languishing in their East End council house. Frank (Jeff Robert) and Mavis (Pam Ferris) are the endlessly bickering parents of Mark (Phil Daniels) and Colin (Tim Roth). Colin is a slow-.. Read more

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  Leigh returning to Berlin film festival as jury president

  • WENN Newsdesk
  • 02 Dec 2011

  Revered director Mike Leigh will head the judging panel at next year's (12) Berlin International Film Festival. The Vera Drake legend's first feature film Meantime debuted at the festival back in 1984, and he only returned in 2008 when Sally Hawkins won Best Actress prize at the event for her starring role in his comedy Happy-Go-Lucky. Leigh's big screen work has garnered great acclaim from critics throughout his career, and he's collected the top prizes at film festivals in Cannes, France,... Read more

  

  Vintage Oldman

  • 08 Sep 2011

  Asked what attributes he took from his old college rector Vivian Green that inspired his most famous character, John Le Carré talked about his spirit and intellect, his powers of observation and recall, and “his ability to disappear into the crowd like a shrimp in sand”. An extraordinary image, that, to convey camouflage and invisibility, and one that makes Gary Oldman seem like the perfect choice for George Smiley. It’s been a long time coming. For many of us (he’s... Read more

  

  Loving and Loathing Mike Leigh

  • 02 Nov 2010

  Another year, another Mike Leigh movie… though to be fair, it’s actually every other year. Still, we know what to expect: social satire larded with maudlin sentiment; all or nothing performances from his favourite cosmetically unenhanced English thespians; not much plot but characters who rub each other up the wrong way, grin and bear it in the conventional English manner until they are forced to acknowledge an uncomfortable truth in the last reel. Okay, I admit it – I have a Read more

  

  The Secret Life of Bees: Sophie Okonedo Interview

  • 04 Dec 2008

  We caught up with the versatile British actress Sophie Okonedo to ask her about her role in The Secret Life of Bees, in which she stars alongside Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson and Paul Bettany. Sophie is probably best know for her Oscar-nominated performance as Tatiana in Hotel Rwanda, so we also asked her about breaking into the US and the films that inspired her to become an actress. LOVEFiLM: How did you get involved in The Secret Life of Bees? Sophie Okonedo:... Read more

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    Director Mike Leigh presents another slice-of-life drama--this time focusing on a family of acerbic, terminally unemployed working-class Britons languishing in their East End council house. Frank (Jeff Robert) and Mavis (Pam Ferris) are the endlessly bickering parents of Mark (Phil Daniels) and ...

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