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vaguely.org (Free subscription) | yesterday
... - or opportunities too teeth-knashingly good - for self-doubt).4) Is Come Dine With Me scripted by Mike Leigh on the quiet'5) I really need to go to bed now. If I don't sleep enough, I lose at least half an hour a day of productive time through trying to locate missing parts of my brain and having to re-check things I wouldn't need to re-check if I were awake. Although I only needed...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
When Mike Leigh was asked whether he liked the work of his fellow director Woody Allen, he responded in a way that many of us have been secretly thinking too: “Radio Days would be on my desert island with me, but if you wanted to subject me to excruciating torture, you'd send me there with a copy of Match Point. I wouldn't survive 24 hours.”
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Different River (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
May 3 2008 By Kevan ChristieA SICK actor collapsed on stage - at the same time as his character was meant to have a heart attack and die.Steve Dineen was taken to hospital after he keeled over during the dramatic finale of Mike Leigh’s famous comedy Abigail's Party.In the play, lead character Laurence dies of a heart attack in the final minutes and Dineen was moments away from acting...
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The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Gavin and Stacy star James Corden reveals love pact Beverley Lyons And Laura Sutherland GAVIN And Stacy star James Corden has revealed his ideal woman is actress Sally Hawkins.Corden claims that Sally, star of the Mike Leigh film Happy-Go-Lucky, has made a romantic pact with him.Sally and James were guest presenters at the weekend BAFTA Craft Awards at London's Dorchester Hotel.Corden,...
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Celtic Cult Cinema (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
... Kennedy Martin, Ken Loach, Alan Plater, Willy Russell, Alan Bleasdale, Alan Clarke, David Hare, Mike Leigh, Neil Jordan, Peter Greenaway and Stephen Frears. The event is free and open to all. If you would like to attend contact Naomi Wells at njwells[at]glam[dot]ac[dot]uk [Pictured above: The ATRiuM in coloured floodlights, as searchlights, limousines and and the celebrity redcarpet...
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Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... stage in the 2001 West End revival of Pinter’s The Homecoming is best known for playing Monica in Mike Leigh’s Secrets and LiesIn other play casting news: (another Mike Leigh film favourite, whose most recent stage credits include All About My Mother, The AlchemistPillars of the Community) will play Suffragette Lady Celia Cain in the world premiere of Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s...
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The Sigla Blog (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... hopefully still make regular trips to its new home in Smithfield. Today's programme kicks off with Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky, Honeydripper by John Sayles (I saw a couple of his films in the old venue), XXY, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, My Brother Is An Only Child and Once. Best of luck to all those involved in resurrecting one of my favourite cinemas. Link: Lighthouse Cinema...
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janeandrichard.co.uk yak (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
... the drinking starts). Naturally, there was a wine reception after. And tonight we went to see Mike Leigh in conversation with Amy Raphael , discussing his films and watching bits of some of them. We headed back home to sign up to LoveFilm to get his back catalog. One negative: the £1 per ticket booking fees are evil, especially as the booking system isn't finished and the web sites...
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My Films Blog (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
... film added another £19,000 to that tally. Several non-mainstream titles continue to hold up well. Mike Leigh 's Happy-Go-Lucky declined a slim 25% from the previous weekend, for an 18-day total of £1.13 million. French-Iranian animation Persepolis fell just 20%. Marjane Satrapi 's Oscar-nominated picture has taken £412,000 in 11 days. Lower down the chart, slasher-horror P2 , named...
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Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
... comedy Made of Honour taking fourth spot.The Eye and 21 each fell by four positions, while Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky continued to charm audiences, climbing one position in its third week on release.The top five films at the UK and Ireland box office are: (last week's position)1 Iron Man - £5.4 million (-)2 Forgetting Sarah Marshall - £1.3 million (1)3 Nim's Island - £820, 218 (-)4...
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The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
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...
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Nothing To Do With Arbroath (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
A sick actor collapsed on stage - at the same time as his character was meant to have a heart attack and die. Steve Dineen was taken to hospital after he keeled over during the dramatic finale of Mike Leigh's famous comedy Abigail's Party. In the play, lead character Laurence dies of a heart attack in the final minutes and Dineen was moments away from acting out the death. So when he...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
... of a woman directed by Michelangelo Antonioni on May 10; English Secrets and Lies directed by Mike Leigh on May 11; Italian A Special Day directed by Ettore Scola on May 16; Taxi Blues in Russian, directed by Pavel Lungin on May 17; 400 Blows in French directed by François Truffaut; ; Taste of Cherry in Persian, directed by Abbas Kiarostami on May 24 and on May 25, Ploy in Thai, directed...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
... in Joe Wright's Atonement? 10 Which castle, on what island, did Keith and Candace Marie visit in Mike Leigh's Nuts in May? 11 Where was the climax of 28 Days Later filmed? 12 What is the location of the (revealing) final scene of The Full Monty? 13 Which Oxford College is used as Hogwarts Hall in the Harry Potter films? 14 Where is Maid Marion's home in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves?...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
... of a woman” directed by Michelangelo Antonioni on May 10; English “Secrets and Lies” directed by Mike Leigh on May 11; Italian “A Special Day” directed by Ettore Scola on May 16; “Taxi Blues” in Russian, directed by Pavel Lungin on May 17; “400 Blows” in French directed by François Truffaut; “Identification of a woman” again directed by Michelangelo Antonioni on May 18; “Taste of...
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moviehound | 02/04/2008
I recently saw this little British film by first time director Paul Andrew Williams called “London to Brighton” and it blew me away. I haven't been able to stop thinking about the characters and their damaged psyches...
