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50+ Years of Film with Mike Leigh | Vanity Fair

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2 years ago

January 15, 2025

“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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4 Comments

@WeslleyJonathann

January 15, 2025 at 1:21 pm

first

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@thecinematicmind

January 15, 2025 at 1:23 pm

At long last to see Mike Leigh here

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@Andul1Razack

January 15, 2025 at 1:35 pm

Mike Leigh is an absolute titan of not only British cinema but the medium itself, he talks you listen, simple.

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@julianmark

January 15, 2025 at 2:36 pm

This is great. Thank you Mike Leigh, and thank you to Vanity Fair!

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