This new revised edition brings Mike Leighs career uptodate, including his film about J.M.W. Turner, Mr. Turner, and his epic masterpiece, Peterloo.Fivetime Oscar nominee and BAFTA winner, the only British director to have won the top prize at both Cannes (for Secrets & Lies) and Venice (for Vera Drake) Mike Leigh is unquestionably one of world cinemas preeminent figures. Now, in this definitive careerlength interview, he reflects on all that has gone into the making of his unique body of work.In their commingling of bleakness and humour, Leighs films recreate the tragicomic world of people whose everyday lives are far from glamorous a world in which the done thing usually prevails, contrary to our inner hopes, wants or needs. Leighs work has always reflected its times and entered the vernacular, whether the harsh studies of Meantime and Naked or the humour of the nowlegendary Abigails Party and Nuts in May. Above all, Leigh is an accomplished storyteller, and these films deal with universal themes births, marriages and deaths, parenthood and failed relationships, families and their secrets and lies. Within these pages Leigh speaks to Amy Raphael more openly than ever before of his life and inimitable working method, revealing himself as passionate, forthright, no sufferer of fools, but the owner of a dry and playful Mancunian wit.

Binding: Paperback;608 pages; Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd; Classification: APFB; Weight: 882 g; Dimensions: 153 x 234 x 49

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