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Telegraph Blogs : Guests (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky was one of the sunniest films of 2008, featuring Sally Hawkins as the almost dementedly perky Poppy, a North London teacher capable of seeing only the bright side of life. Having said that, it was a performance that divided the critics - in our house, at least. When we watched it on DVD, Mrs Lee could endure no more than 20 minutes of it before she remembered an urgent...
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IndieWire (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
by Erica Abeel (December 30, 2008) EDITOR'S NOTE: This is part of a daily December series that will feature new or previously published interviews and profiles of some of the year's best filmmakers, writers, actors and actresses. In the opening scenes of " Happy-Go-Lucky ," Poppy, a thirty-year-old teacher dressed in flea market duds and fishnet stockings, pedals through London dispensing cheer --...
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Miami Student (Free subscription) | 12/12/2008
The main character in writer-director Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky is named Poppy (Sally Hawkins). Without context, and if you combined that name with the title, one might believe that they're about to see a children's story full of puppy-kissing and high jumps over rainbows, or that a secret exclamation mark might have been attached to Poppy's name (i.e.: Poppy!).
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euronews24 (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
HAVANA - Acclaimed filmmaker Mike Leigh was in Cuba to receive an award at a film festival that will screen 10 of his best productions, according to local reports. Havana's 30th Latin American Cinema Festival was to screen "Bleak Moments" 1971, Le
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Only The Cinema (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
Johnny (David Thewlis), the homeless, wandering central character in Mike Leigh's Naked , issues a profound challenge to audience identification right from his first appearance on screen: in the opening minutes of the film, he violently rapes a girl against an alley wall, fleeing afterward through shadowy streets until he stumbles upon an unattended car he can steal. He is, to say the least, not an...
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Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 26/10/2008
To know the films of Mike Leigh is to awaken a part of your cinematic soul. For me, it was a realization of just how emotionally charged film could be, especially British film, which I've always loved deeply, but never gotten quite the same emotional response to as I have from the films of Sweden or Denmark or Russia. When I say "emotionally charged," I don't mean the kind of films that will make you...
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Snarkmarket (Free subscription) | 24/10/2008
If you were to take every film director in the world and do a calculation something like this... (awesomeness + accessibility) / (general public recognition) ...I think Mike Leigh would end up with the highest score, and it would be something stratospheric, like nine hundred quadrillion. (The unit, of course, is snarkpoints.) Here's the new Onion A.V. Club interview . I haven't seen Happy Go Lucky...
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A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 24/10/2008
The director of the new Happy Go-Lucky talks about his unusual method and why seeing happiness shouldn't make viewers mad.
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eFilmCritic (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
The internationally acclaimed director talks about his latest film, "Happy-Go-Lucky."Thanks to such internationally acclaimed films as “High Hopes,” “Life is Sweet,” “Naked,” “Secrets and Lies,” “Topsy-Turvy” and “Vera Drake,” British director Mike Leigh has long been considered one of the great filmmakers working today and with his latest effort, the beguiling “Happy-Go-Lucky,” he has given another...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
A conversation with Mike Leigh, director of "Happy-Go-Lucky."
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Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
The protag of Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky is a modestly gaudy people's heroine industriously repairing the social world, one frayed interaction at a time. After extended cameos in two previous Leigh films (as a resourceful pop tart in All or Nothing and the date...
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RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
An interview you will enjoy digging into...
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 19/10/2008
Director Mike Leigh both disagrees and agrees that his new movie Happy-Go-Lucky represents a departure from previous films of his that tended to dwell on unhappy situations.
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MSNBC.com: Newsweek Entertainment (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008
'Happy-Go-Lucky' isn't grade-A Mike Leigh, but it's pleasant enough.
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Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 17/10/2008
Mike Leigh's latest (in Manhattan theaters now) is Happy-Go-Lucky , an apt title for a film about London's most optimistic kindergarten teacher (Sally Hawkins). Leigh will be on hand for a screening of Happy-Go-Lucky at Scandinavia House this Sunday, as one of the Museum of the Moving Image's Pinewood Dialogues . However, if you prefer the darker side of Leigh's disposition, Scandinavia House will...
