ReadySteadyBlog (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
I’m a bit slow on this but The Impostume’s demolition of Mike Leigh is superb, particularly on the role of gender. I love a thoroughly vicious polemic, me! Check out also the responses from K-punk and Infinite Thought .
/Film (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
They say that if you give out positive energy than you should receive positive energy in return. The person who coined that phrase never met Poppy. Dressed in bright colors and wearing big earrings, Poppy has a personality that is as obnoxiously perky as her wardrobe, if not more so. Mike Leigh’s latest film is a [...]
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
Indie pioneer Mike Leigh is back, this time with an up-beat tale about a 30 year-old girl.
LA Times (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Having seen a few of the fall offerings, I have to admit I was beginning to think the slump would never end.
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
Mike Leigh, 65, is considered one of Britains best film directors, responsible for classics including Abigails Party and the Oscar-nominated Secrets & Lies and Vera Drake. His latest, Happy-Go-Lucky, detailing perky teacher Poppys ups and downs with her doolally driving teacher Scott, is out on DVD this week, as is his grimmer 1993 offering Naked.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
Mike Leigh's Naked made David Thewlis a star - and went on to haunt him. He and the director talk to Stuart Jeffries about the creation of one of British film's greatest characters
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Miramax has debuted the trailer for Mike Leigh's new comedy Happy-Go-Lucky . This cheerful little film is about the boisterous and carefree Poppy, played by the bright up-and-coming actress Sally Hawkins , and the lack of romance in her life. Apparently Happy-Go-Lucky is a film festival sensation, but I haven't heard of it until now, so I'm not sure how big of a sensation it was. However, it is the...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
Mike Leigh, who more or less invented miserablism as an art form, has changed his tune. His new film, Happy-Go-Lucky is, as the title suggests, cheerful. What's he doing?
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
"I'll go on until I drop. Even after I am dead I'll carry on making films." Moviemaker MIKE LEIGH will continue to make films beyond the ...
The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
By Fernando F. Croce “Why would he pick Topsy-Turvy,” the woman standing in front of me in line at the Castro Theatre asked with genuine puzzlement. Mike Leigh was being honored at the San Francisco International Film Festival last Wednesday, and it was safe to assume he would be reviving many of the same questions he was asked when the film, his selection to be shown at the evening’s event,
Secondhand Smoke (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
London, the present. Poppy (Sally Hawkins) is an exuberant thirty-year old primary school teacher sharing a rented flat with a friend. She enjoys trampolining, flamenco and cycling, until her bicycle is stolen. This event leads her to driving lessons and a series of encounters with an unstable driving instructor (Eddie Marsan)that eventually reveal Poppy to be more clear-headed than she purports to...
The Observer (Free subscription) | 27/04/2008
... in a Mike Leigh film
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 24/04/2008
MIKE LEIGH has admitted he has an obsession with crop circles.The Mirror reports that the acclaimed film director, whose hit projects include VERA DRAKE and SECRETS ...
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 23/04/2008
Books: An informative guide to a man whose films need little explanation, providing plenty of insight into the uncompromising mindset of a great cinematic talent.
