and while "Urchin" lacks the sadism of Mike Leigh's Thatcherite-era scream, it's a credit to Dillane's remarkable performance that the two movies seem capable of holding a conversation with each other ...

"With visually luxurious, emotionally filled, and intellectually insightful style, he won the hearts of audiences ... who saw ...

There’s a mythology that surrounds Mike Leigh’s films. And like with any shared lore, not all of it is true. One ...

In Mike Leigh's newest film, Marianne Jean-Baptiste stars as an overly critical woman struggling with her mental health. Leigh and Jean-Baptiste talk with NPR's Scott Simon about "Hard Truths.

Ruminate on the title of the latest film from acclaimed British writer-director Mike Leigh, “Hard Truths,” and you’ll find it's comically ironic. Leigh’s movies have always relied on their ...

The pair play husband and wife Curtley and Pansy in the new Mike Leigh-directed film, which follows various members of an extended Black family living in London. “Mike and I worked, individually ...

Mike Leigh is one of the most prolific living filmmakers, an acolyte of the human condition. With a body of work that ranges from micro-dramas to period-set opulence, Leigh makes films that never ...

Richard Pope, the British cinematographer who collaborated with director Mike Leigh across his career and earned an Oscar nomination for his work lensing Leigh’s 2014 biopic “Mr. Turner ...

The British realist director Mike Leigh loves the term “character actor,” which he uses often and with zeal. To him, it’s a term of great respect, meaning a performer who’s highly skilled ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s lead role in “Hard Truths,” directed by Mike Leigh, is her most substantial onscreen role since “Secrets and Lies” earned them Academy Award nominations in 1997.

TORONTO (AP) — When the British filmmaker Mike Leigh was 6, his father, a doctor who would oppose his son becoming an artist, told him to quit drawing pictures of people. In a way, Leigh never stopped ...

There’s a mythology that surrounds Mike Leigh’s films. And like with any shared lore, not all of it is true. One misconception, for instance, is that his storytelling is largely improvised ...