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ABIGAIL'S PARTY
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Mike Leigh's brilliant satire about middle-class English consumerism and appearances, with Alison Steadman's frightening performance as a frantic woman trying to orchestrate an important dinner party, which is interrupted by her husband's untimely heart attack. In this situation, the "unbearable and hopeless fuse to create an explosion of incredible hilarity." Mike Leigh---Great Britain---1977---105 mins.
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ANOTHER YEAR (BLU-RAY & DVD)
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Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen, Lesley Manville, Peter Wright, and other familiar faces star in this low-key, London-set drama about the interconnected lives of those discontented or unloved characters who surround Tom (Broadbent) and Mary (Sheen), an aging but still very happy couple. "...gently juxtaposes the big issues of everyday life: loneliness and love, selfishness and kindness, birth and death...Each [Mike] Leigh film rests heavily on the ensemble chosen, and here the chemistry...distills pure dramatic magic" (Variety).
Mike Leigh---Great Britain---2010---129 mins.
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BLEAK MOMENTS
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This breakthrough film from Leigh is the shrewdly observed and brilliantly understated portrait of London's offbeat residents and the fleeting but significant moments which define their lives. Sylvia (Anne Raitt), a clever but bored secretary, desperately seeks to escape from the bleak moments of her life, first in an awkward flirtation with a sexually repressed schoolteacher (Eric Allan), and then with the eccentric, guitar-playing hippie tenant living in her garage (Mike Bradwell). Mike Leigh---Great Britain---1971---110 mins.
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CAREER GIRLS
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Mike Leigh's (Secrets and Lies) intelligent, poignant comedy about the reunion of two very different 30-ish women who were battling college roommates in London six years ago. Over the course of their brief reunion, Hannah and Annie (Katrin Cartlidge, Naked and Breaking the Waves, and Lynda Steadman, in stand-out performances) reveal the present while they talk about the past, in jittery flashbacks that match their emotions. As we watch these two progress from black leather to discreet beige, we also watch the growth that has carried them beyond the shared, angry turmoil of their college years. Mike Leigh---Great Britain---1997---87 mins.
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FOUR DAYS IN JULY
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Mike Leigh's humanism is the hallmark of this BBC television film about the opposite fortunes of two couples in Northern Ireland, one Catholic and one Protestant, both of whom are expecting children. With Brid Brennan, Desmond McAleer, Charles Lawson and Paula Hamilton. Mike Leigh---Great Britain---1984---99 mins.
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GROWN UPS
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Mike Leigh's working class comedy about a recently wed couple who must deal with the wife's idiosyncratic sister and their next door neighbor, who was a high school instructor. With Philip Davis, Leslie Manville, Sam Kelly, Lindsay Duncan and Brenda Blethyn. Mike Leigh---Great Britain---1980---95 mins.
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HAPPY-GO-LUCKY/ HAPPY GO LUCKY
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Mike Leigh wrote and directed this uncharacteristically sweet comedy, and it almost unanimously drove critics and juries wild. Or maybe it was the irresistible performance of Sally Hawkins as Poppy, a spirited, cheery elementary schoolteacher who tries to help her students, coworkers, and friends coexist in an otherwise cruel system (a.k.a. North London). With Alexis Zegerman and Eddie Marsan. Hawkins won the Silver Berlin Bear for Best Actress at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival. Mike Leigh---Great Britain---2008---119 mins.
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HARD LABOUR
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This emotionally horrific and yet oddly amusing film is a scathing indictment of classicism and sexism. The grinding daily abuse suffered by a poor elderly woman at the hands of her husband, her children and even her employer illustrate the nature of oppression. Ben Kingsley appears as a hairy but Mike Leigh---Great Britain---1973---70 mins.
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HIGH HOPES
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A thoughtful study of class warfare in modern London. Three couples from differing social and financial backgrounds cross paths when an old woman gets locked out of her flat. Writer-director Mike Leigh's sympathies are clearly with the younger leftist hippies and he saves most of his comedic venom for the posh aristocrats and the greedy upper middle class. With Philip Davis and Ruth Sheen. Sharply performed by all those concerned.
Mike Leigh---Great Britain---1989---110 mins.
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HOME SWEET HOME (LEIGH)
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This, the story of three not terribly jolly postmen, centers on Stan, a would-be ladies' man whose wife has left him. Insightful comedy results when Stan compensates for his loneliness by seducing his co-workers' wives. In this unusual film, England emerges as a land of bitter, isolated individuals unconsoled by marriage and pigeonholed by the state. Mike Leigh---Great Britain---1982---90 mins.
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KISS OF DEATH (LEIGH)
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Trevor is a quiet undertaker's assistant. His attempts at romance give shape to a plot characterized by whimsy and a puckish sense of humor. The courtship attempts of this strange misfit must rank among cinema's most funny and awkward expressions of tortured love. Mike Leigh---Great Britain---1977---80 mins.
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LIFE IS SWEET
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Satirist Mike Leigh is at it again in the London south side with this decidedly bittersweet comedy about the members of a dysfunctional family and their oddball friends. It seems everyone in this film is striving for change. The family tries to balance their differences with alcoholic friends and their short fuses proves a challenge, but they don't forget to laugh a lot along the Mike Leigh---Great Britain---1992---103 mins.
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MIKE LEIGH COLLECTION 1
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Three early films from British director Mike Leigh, known for his emotionally realistic and darkly comic depictions of the dramas of daily life. The emotionally horrific and oddly amusing Hard Labour (1973, 70 mins.) is a scathing indictment of classicism and sexism. The grinding daily abuse suffered by a poor elderly woman at the hands of her husband, her children and even her employer illustrate the nature of oppression. Ben Kingsley appears as a hairy but friendly cab driver. The satire about middle-class English consumerism and appearances, Abigail's Party (1977, 105 mins.), features Alison Steadman as a frantic woman trying to orchestrate an important dinner party, which is interrupted by her husband's untimely heart attack. Grown Ups (1980, 95 mins.) is a working class comedy about a recently wed coupl e who must deal with the wife's idiosyncratic sister and their next door Mike Leigh---Great Britain---1973/1977/1980---270 mins.
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MIKE LEIGH COLLECTION 2
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Three early films from British director Mike Leigh, known for his emotionally realistic and darkly comic depictions of the dramas of daily life. Leigh's breakthrough film, Bleak Moments (1971, 110 mins.), is the shrewdly observed and brilliantly understated portrait of London's offbeat residents and the fleeting but significant moments which define their lives. A clever but bored secretary (Anne Raitt) desperately seeks to escape the bleak moments of her life, first in an awkward flirtation with a sexually repressed schoolteacher (Eric Allan), and then with the eccentric, guitar-playing hippie living in her garage (Mike Bradwell). Nuts in May (1976, 84 mins.) recounts the weird adventures of a fierce young couple trying to abide to their strict vegetarian diet, with dangerous repercussions. With Roger Sloman , Alison Steadman and Anthony O'Donnell. Set in a brokerage firm, Who's Who (1978, 75 mins.) charts the hilarious degrees of greed and avarice of some ambitious young traders, each trying to step on top of the other. With Bridget Kane, Simon Chandler, Adam Norton, Philip Davis and Joolia Cappleman . Mike Leigh---Great Britain---1971/1976/1978---269 mins.
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MIKE LEIGH COLLECTION 3
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This 3-DVD set bundles together three feature films from acclaimed British director Mike Nichols, whose films balance wicked humor and natural acting styles with keen social observation and bold political critique. This set includes Four Days in July (1984, 99 mins.), Home Sweet Home (1982, 90 mins.), and Kiss of Death (1977, 80 mins.) Mike Leigh---Britain---1977-1984---269 mins.
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NAKED (LEIGH)
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This film won both the Best Director and Best Actor honors at the Cannes Film Festival. David Thewlis stars as in this darkly funny, oppressive and bizarre odyssey, set in the streets of London, which explores the seamy side of desire and desperation in post-Thatcherite England. Thewlis is magnetic as the ultimate outcast: an unemployed misogynist, fleeing a rape charge, who shares his non-stop bilious rantings with all those he meets. Mike Leigh---Great Britain---1993---131 mins.
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NUTS IN MAY
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British filmmaker Mike Leigh has a wonderful sense of rhythms and improvisational textures, and this film recounts the weird adventures of a fierce young couple trying to abide to their strict vegetarian diet, with dangerous repercussions. "Hilarious and appalling" (Vincent Canby). With Roger Sloman, Alison Steadman and Anthony O'Donnell. Mike Leigh---Great Britain---1976---84 mins.
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SECRETS AND LIES
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Mike Leigh's heartwarming comedy/drama of a young black woman (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) searching for her natural birth mother only to discover that her mom (the magnificent Brenda Blethyn) is white, makes for a film with "rare heart and soul" (Janet Maslin, The New York Times), from Britain's master of improvisational, working-class social comedies. With Timothy Spall. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Mike Leigh---Great Britain---1996---114 mins.
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TOPSY-TURVY (CRITERION)
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Best known for his realistic film portraits of contemporary society, Mike Leigh proved his talent also extends to period dramas with this rich, colorful, funny and sad look at the backstage lives of Gilbert and Sullivan and their theatrical collaborators. The creation of The Mikado is the center of this captivating, multi-faceted story.
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VERA DRAKE
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Imelda Staunton gives the performance of a lifetime as Vera Drake, a loving wife and mother who cleans houses by day and performs illegal abortions by night. Mike Leigh's masterful film, set in gray 1950's England, is a devastatingly effective portrait of an everyday woman whose commitment to helping others runs her afoul of the law. Through period detail and nuanced performances, Leigh crafts an earnestly felt drama that transcends politics to become "a prime example of how genuine drama terrifies and uplifts us. It also reveals how controversial subjects can seem fresh and new in the hands of a master director and a great ensemble cast" (Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune). Nominated for 3 Academy Awards (Best Actress, Best Director, Best Mike Leigh---Great Britain---2004---125 mins.
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