Posts Tagged ‘Mike Leigh’
John Hurt: BAFTA for Outstanding Contribution to Cinema
Veteran British Actor John Hurt has been singled out by BAFTA to receive the award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema! Thoroughly deserved and a long time coming! British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) made the announcement on the 27th January ahead of their awards ceremony next month. And John himself seems...
Marley documentary to première at Berlin Film Fest
People attending this year's Berlin Film Festival are sure to be jammin' along to the première of Kevin MacDonald's much anticipated Bob Marley documentary. The film is thought to include rare and exclusive music, records and photographs of the reggae singer, which have only just been released by his family. MacDonald (the filmmaker...
Thatcherism On Film Quiz!
The Iron Lady hit our cinema screens on Friday 6th January with a highly acclaimed look at the life of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, starring Meryl Streep, as well as Jim Broadbent as Thatcher's husband, Denis, Anthony Head as her eventual deputy, Geoffrey Howe, and Olivia Colman as her daughter, Carol Thatcher. With this...
What's another year?
If there's a statement that illustrates the difference between the Hollywood machine and the art of European film, it's British movie director Mike Leigh's statement that "I've always been concerned, for as long as I've ever been making films or stage plays, with celebrating the lives of ordinary people. That's what it's all about." Ordinary...
