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Marianne Jean-Baptiste: ‘People were following a narrative that had been created to explain me’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: ‘Secrets & Lies’ made her the first Black British woman to be nominated for an Oscar. Now, nearly 30 years and 160 episodes of the ‘factory-like’ US cop drama ‘Without a Trace’ later, she has reunited with Mike Leigh for the blistering ‘Hard Truths’ – it’s earned…

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Baftas 2025: Conclave leads a pack of underdog tales – and Kneecap may already have won

The wonderfully watchable pope-voting movie has 12 righteous nominations – but films about defiant outsiders have clearly captured voters’ imaginations

The Guardian - UK

Mike Leigh battling autoimmune disease

Moviemaker Mike Leigh needs a walking stick to get about after being diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease called myositis which causes muscle inflammation and weakness.

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Mike Leigh hits out at ‘offensive and racist’ criticisms of latest film

Award-winning drama features a mostly Black cast

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"Hard Truths" confronts an angry world

Mike Leigh and his longtime collaborator Marianne Jean-Baptiste search for answers in their latest tour de force

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Roger Pratt obituary

Oscar-nominated cinematographer who helped create the look of Tim Burton’s Batman and Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, as well as two Harry Potter films

The Guardian - UK

Clues, improvisation and anti-pigeon devices – the vision behind Mike Leigh’s new film Hard Truths

The director’s trademark extemporising extends to touring suburbia to find the perfect setting for his latest production

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Mark Kermode on… director Sean Baker, who thrillingly puts the marginalised centre stage

The American indie director who made his mark with Tangerine and The Florida Project, and whose latest film, Anora, is an Oscars favourite, owes an unlikely debt to British social realists Mike Leigh and Ken Loach

The Guardian - UK

Toyboys, divas and Bridget Jones: the films to look forward to in 2025

Nicole Kidman takes a younger lover, Tom Cruise accepts his final impossible mission, Angelina Jolie plays Maria Callas and Timothée Chalamet belts out some Bob Dylan in the best of the movies coming to UK cinemas next year

The Guardian - UK

Hard Truths: Mike Leigh’s bleakly comic take on depression offers no easy answers

If you were to ask a computer programme to come up with a title for a new Mike Leigh film it could do no better than Hard Truths. Echoing the title of his very first film in 1971, Bleak Moments, Hard Truths represents a variation on the veteran British director’s…

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The 60 greatest film actors of the 21st century (so far)

THE COUNTDOWN: The Independent’s culture team ranks the very best film actors of the century so far

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Marianne Jean-Baptiste tests our limits of empathy in 'Hard Truths'

Of all the movie protagonists you might have seen this year, none is quite like Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s Pansy in Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths.”

The Independent UK

Best movies of 2024 in the US: No 5 – Hard Truths

Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives an immense, acidic performance as Pansy, a woman on the edge, in Mike Leigh’s strange, morbid miracle of a film

The Guardian - US

Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste on rage, sex and insults: ‘There’s an intolerance in society now’

The director and actor talk about identifying with the angry lead in their new film Hard Truths – and why it took Netflix less than a minute to turn the movie down

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The Pirates of Penzance review – not modern nor general but major fun in revival of Mike Leigh’s trad staging

Gilbert & Sullivan stalwarts Richard Suart and John Savourin ensure that English National Opera’s staging buckles your swashes; and, as apprentice pirate Frederic, William Morgan is genuinely funny

Evening Standard

The Pirates of Penzance at the London Coliseum review: bold, bright and inviting as a comic strip

4/5 Mike Leigh’s take on the production is comparatively sober, but don’t worry: there’s still humour in spades

The Guardian - UK

Film advent calendar: 24 festive movies chosen by leading film figures

Count down to Christmas with favourites selected by Sean Baker, Gillian Anderson, John Waters, Mike Leigh, Gurinder Chadha, Will Sharpe and more

The Guardian - UK

Film advent calendar: count down to Christmas with 24 movies chosen by leading actors and directors

Sean Baker, Gillian Anderson, Mike Leigh, Gurinder Chadha and other figures from film and television select their festive favourites

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The Guardian - UK

Mark Kermode on… director Mike Leigh, who mines the comedy and tragedy of life

From Nuts in May to Vera Drake and the forthcoming Hard Truths, Leigh’s unique creative process gives us perfectly crafted dramas and characters who feel real

The Guardian - UK

‘A revelation and a joy’: Mike Leigh pays tribute to cinematographer Dick Pope

Pope, who died this month, worked on every film Leigh has made since 1990. It was a professional partnership of ‘total harmony’, says the director

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Dick Pope obituary

Cinematographer known for his work with Mike Leigh on films such as Secrets and Lies and Mr Turner

The Independent UK

Dick Pope death: Tom Hardy leads tributes to ‘lovely friend’ as cinematographer dies, aged 77

Film icon had a close working relationship with director Mike Leigh

Evening Standard

Tom Hardy pays tribute to cinematographer and ‘lovely friend’ Dick Pope

Pope worked on the 2015 film Legend, starring Hardy as identical twins Reggie and Ronnie Kray.

The Guardian - US

Dick Pope, cinematographer and Mike Leigh collaborator, dies aged 77

British Oscar nominee was known for work on films such as Mr Turner, The Illusionist and Secrets & Lies

Evening Standard

Hard Truths at London Film Festival review: Mike Leigh's unflinching new drama is an exhausting experience

The director’s first film in six years reunites him with the wonderful Marianne Jean-Baptiste – but the end result is hard work

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