Search found 60 matches: Mike Leigh

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by JooJoo
Tue Apr 19, 2022 6:44 am
Forum: Full Reviews
Topic: Bleak Moments (1971)
Replies: 2
Views: 2018

Re: Bleak Moments (1971)

I would love to watch these early Mike Leigh films again. I haven't since Netflix's early streaming service years when they included little oddities like these Play for TV spots and stuff like Twilight of the Ice Nymphs & Benny's Video.
by AFlickering
Tue Jan 11, 2022 6:16 pm
Forum: Full Reviews
Topic: Bleak Moments (1971)
Replies: 2
Views: 2018

Bleak Moments (1971)

... slowest film ever made with jokes in... like watching paint dry. " - mike leigh " it's like romeo and juliet all over again, isn't it hilda? " - sylvia a riposte to ...
by paulofilmo
Sat Jan 01, 2022 2:41 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Summary of 2021 viewing
Replies: 2
Views: 1780

Re: Summary of 2021 viewing

... nevertheless there's been some cracking rewatches, especially the mike leigh films that've been on tv recently. (i always forget about how much they feel like they ...
by paulofilmo
Sun Dec 05, 2021 11:50 pm
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: UK TV Film Recommendations
Replies: 203
Views: 632064

Re: UK TV Film Recommendations

mike leigh:

monday - topsy turvy. film4. 11.25pm

tue - hard labour (play for today). bbc4. 10.30pm

with an interview afterwards (or here/catchup)


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and next sunday - mr. turner. film4 1:00am
by AFlickering
Sat May 01, 2021 8:42 pm
Forum: Filmmakers
Topic: Who are the ten directors you have seen the most films by?
Replies: 84
Views: 158339

Re: Who are the ten directors you have seen the most films by?

... be. filmmakers i expect to pop up on this list in the near future are mike leigh (currently 10), hong sang-soo (currently 10) and abel ferrara (currently 9).
by paulofilmo
Sat Aug 22, 2020 12:58 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: (Yet) another approach to the question of greatest directors
Replies: 36
Views: 52774

Re: (Yet) another approach to the question of greatest directors

... tark lynch(inc. twin peaks) sat ray & linklater takahata chaplin wyler mike leigh & david lean wes anderson malick & Shane Meadows & Soderbergh & Quay Bros cassavetes ...
by Malcym
Mon Jun 15, 2020 10:34 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Best of the 2010s
Replies: 5
Views: 4520

Re: Best of the 2010s

... the Warmest Colour (2013) Abdellatif Kechiche 11. Another Year (2010) Mike Leigh 12. Moonlight (2016) Barry Jenkins 13. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) Joel & Ethan Coen 14. ...
by iconogassed
Fri Aug 23, 2019 3:33 pm
Forum: Collections
Topic: 1001 TV Series You Must Watch
Replies: 3
Views: 12055

Re: 1001 TV Series You Must Watch

... film; was that an error? There are other questionable inclusions. Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party is in, I guess because it was, like other Leigh films, originally part ...
by AFlickering
Thu Jul 18, 2019 8:36 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: MOVIES you might have missed
Replies: 9
Views: 13673

Re: MOVIES you might have missed

... ever while still being a great romcom. Bleak Moments (1971) mike leigh's underseen debut is one of his very best and strangest. Hill of Freedom (2014) often ...
by AFlickering
Thu Dec 06, 2018 7:38 am
Forum: Filmmakers
Topic: Criticker's Favourite Directors
Replies: 11
Views: 19135

Re: Criticker's Favourite Directors

... his early movies were technically TV eps, but if we're counting those, mike leigh has a 70.90 average. edward yang is 71.372, with the caveat that the fifth i included ...