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Hollywood Reporter: Mike Leigh filming new project in London
Leigh :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
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Mike Leigh on Wednesday began production in London on his latest feature, currently untitled. His first film since 2008's "Happy-Go-Lucky," Leigh's new project stars, in alphabetical order, Michele Austin, David Bradley, Jim Broadbent, Phil Davis, Karina...
Tags: Mike Leigh, London
Musings on Film in 2008
I was thinking of posting a "10 Best Films of 2008" article until I realised I haven't actually bothered to watch ten films released this year. Instead, here are a few random thoughts I've had about the year in cinema that was: Guilty Pleasure of 2008:...
Tags: film, movie, art, cinema, australia, kidman, jackman, lurhmann, gran torino, Clint Eastwood, mike leigh, happy go lucky, 2008, rant
Worcester Telegram & Gazette: Movie review: 'Happy-Go-Lucky'
Leigh :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility Poppy, the perpetually sunny heroine of Happy-Go-Lucky, finds that her beloved bicycle has been stolen from outside a London bookstore at the film's start. Not only is she not angry when she makes this discovery, but rather she says to herself, wistfully...
Tags: Mike Leigh
Sally Hawkins beams after playing Poppy
Leigh :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility Sally Hawkins is not in character when she signs off our phone conversation. But she could have been. "Lots and lots of love!" she bubbles...Hawkins, 32, was the very picture of Anne Elliott, Jane Austen 's most reserved heroine, in the TV version of...
Tags: Mike Leigh, Sally Hawkins
Movie Review: 'Happy-Go-Lucky'
Leigh :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility I've never used this cliche in a review before, and God forbid I ever use it again, so pay close attention: "Happy-Go-Lucky" is the feel-good movie of the year. I say that not because it's a terrifically entertaining film, which it is, or because it features...
Tags: Mike Leigh, movie review
Review: "Happy-Go-Lucky"
Leigh :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility Poppy, the flighty heroine of "Happy-Go-Lucky," lives to spread good cheer. Her wardrobe is a kaleidoscope of brilliant colors and wild patterns. Her apartment is decorated like a particularly exuberant kindergarten class. She beams at strangers on the...
Tags: Mike Leigh
‘Happy-Go-Lucky'
Leigh :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility Poppy (Sally Hawkins) is cycling 'round London town, waving at pedestrians, merrily dodging cars, her face abeam. In the opening minutes of Mike Leigh's oddball and ingenious "Happy-Go-Lucky," we already know a lot about its protagonist: She's upbeat,...
Tags: Mike Leigh
Happy go stupid
Leigh :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility A person so goddamn chipper that, 10 minutes into the film, I started imagining ways to make her suffer...And, as Happy Go Lucky is a character study of this irritating and cloying British woman, it's also a film that is very hard to like. See, the gist...
Tags: Mike Leigh
An actress on the edge of fame
Leigh :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility ctober 15, 2008 at 1:50 AM EDT There are a handful of common responses to the appearance of a star-crazed mob during a film festival: curiosity ( Hey, who's everyone screaming about?...But during the recent Toronto International Film Festival, as Sally...
Tags: Mike Leigh
"Happy-Go-Lucky"
Leigh :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility Oct. 10, 2008 When we talk about movie masterpieces, what usually come to mind are epic works that wow us with their scale, pictures that spring from grand ambitions and even grander budgets. But it takes more than ambition, and more than money, to make...
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