“I’m there to make you care, to move you, to make you laugh, to make you cry…to hopefully improve your lives.” Mike Leigh has directed 15 feature films over 5 decades with a unique style of immersing his actors in the creative process of developing scripts over months of research and improvisation. From ‘Secrets & Lies’ to ‘Hard Truths,’ Mike takes a look at all of his films and discusses in detail how they came to life.

HARD TRUTHS is now playing in select theaters, https://bleeckerstreetmedia.com/hard-truths/

Director: Claire Buss
Director of Photography: Eric Brouse
Editor: Matthew Colby
Talent: Mike Leigh
Creative Producer: Christie Garcia
Associate Producer: Alexis Alzamora
Production Manager: Andressa Pelachi
Production Coordinator: Elizbeth Hymes
Associate Director, Video Talent: Meredith Judkins
Camera Operator: Carlos Araujo
Gaffer: David Djaco
Sound Mixer: Lily Van Leeuwen
Production Assistant: Ashley Vidal
Set Designer: Jeremy Derbyshire-Myles
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Additional Editor: Jason Malizia
Assistant Editor: Justin Symonds

00:00 “Life is tragic and life is comic.”
00:31 Bleak Moments
03:56 Meantime
08:19 High Hopes
13:09 Life Is Sweet
16:48 Naked
24:00 Secrets & Lies
28:20 Career Girls
30:59 Topsy-Turvy
35:37 All or Nothing
37:42 Vera Drake
42:37 Happy-Go-Lucky
44:50 Another Year
47:32 Mr. Turner
49:54 Peterloo
51:57 Hard Truths

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