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Mike Leigh

March 2024

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    Tilda Swinton bedtime story among Cinema for Gaza auction lots

    Chance to make porridge with Josh O’Connor or be serenaded by Olly Alexander also up for grabs in inaugural online auction to support Medical Aid for Palestinians in Gaza

February 2024

  • Uniquely fabulous … Robbie and Gosling in Barbie.

    ‘Ryan Gosling asked me if he could have Ken underpants’: Barbie costume designer Jacqueline Durran spills her secrets

    She is the wardrobe maestro every star craves – and her pink-infused genius on Barbie could bag her yet another Oscar. From Margot Robbie’s jazzy jumpsuit to that Keira Knightley green dress, the British legend relives her finest creations

November 2023

  • Jane Horrocks in Brighton.

    The reader interview
    Jane Horrocks: ‘I’d love to be a baddie in a Tarantino movie’

    The actor answers your questions on working with Mike Leigh, starring in a New Order video and dressing as a giant Snoopy at Harrods

July 2023

  • Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy.

    From the Guardian archive
    ‘You laugh as you’re choking’: a selection of Derek Malcolm’s seminal film reviews

    The Guardian’s longstanding film critic, who has died aged 91, was known for his insight into blockbusters and art pictures alike. Here are excerpts from his takes on Solaris, Star Wars, Taxi Driver, Malcolm X and more

May 2023

  • Palme d'Or winners (l-r) Parasite (2019), Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989) and Taxi Driver (1976)

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: the best winners of Cannes’ Palme d’Or

    Twenty-one films will vie for the top spot at the 76th Cannes film festival, which starts next week, hoping to join the roll call of past classics, from Taxi Driver and M*A*S*H to Parasite

April 2023

  • Lesley Manville, photographed in London last month. She is wearing a black dress and oversized corsage

    ‘Men my age aren’t good on their own. They’re needy’: Lesley Manville on being happily single and her big problem with Hollywood

    The Mike Leigh favourite has become an Oscar-nominated A-lister. She talks about her glamorous mother, her on-stage stamina and being left holding the baby by Gary Oldman

March 2023

  • Alison Steadman

    The reader interview
    Alison Steadman: ‘We filmed the sex scene in the New Forest, so it was quite prickly’

  • Alison Steadman.

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Alison Steadman

January 2023

  • Brian Tufano in the 1990s, the decade in which he came into his own in cinematic work.

    Brian Tufano obituary

    Cinematographer who brought his imaginative sensibilities to films such as Trainspotting, Billy Elliot and Quadrophenia

December 2022

  • Sylvester Stallone running down the street in Rocky (1976).

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: the best hopeful films for a new year

    It’s time to embrace positivity – from the underdog idealism of Rocky to the transcendent A Matter of Life and Death and the gloriously morbid optimism of Harold and Maude

September 2022

  • Jean-Luc Godard shooting Le Mépris with Brigitte Bardot in 1963.

    ‘Godard shattered cinema’: Martin Scorsese, Mike Leigh, Abel Ferrara, Claire Denis and more pay tribute

    He was the explosively talented film-maker who changed cinema for all time. But what did other directing giants make of this movie legend – and did they find his latter films unwatchable?

August 2022

  • Timothy Spall

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Timothy Spall

    Ahead of the release of thriller It Snows in Benidorm, the actor is taking your questions on his life, career and bizarre way of making tea

July 2022

  • Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing

    If you watch only one film … the greatest movies by the greatest directors

    Some directors come with such huge back catalogues that it can be hard to know where to start. Enter our film critics, who suggest the best routes in to the works of some of our most prolific film-makers

May 2022

  • Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode photographed by David Vintiner for the Observer New Review.

    You ask the questions
    Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo: ‘I’ve never heard us described as an island of joy before!’

    Radio’s odd couple take questions from actors, directors and Observer readers about optimism, the films they disagree on – and biscuits

March 2022

  • Alison Steadman as Beverly in Abigail’s Party.

    ‘Fancy a little top-up?’ Teens throw a new Abigail’s Party with guest list of 30

    The eponymous do of Mike Leigh’s 1977 play is reimagined in Abi’s House Party, a youth production at the Watford Palace theatre. But what would Bev think?

December 2021

  • ‘I thought I was heading for a career in light entertainment – my parents were so proud’ … Thewlis at home.

    David Thewlis on new show Landscapers and the misogyny of Naked: ‘I find it much tougher to watch today’

  • Jury’s out … Henry Lloyd-Hughes as DS Nathan Rose in Ragdoll.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: the makers of Killing Eve are back with grisly crime thriller Ragdoll

November 2021

  • Roiling with despair … David Thewlis in Naked.

    Naked review – one of British cinema’s great monsters

    David Thewlis’s lost soul, raging around London in Mike Leigh’s fiercely bleak masterwork, is even more disturbing 28 years on

September 2021

  • Mike Leigh, film and theatre director, screenwriter and playwright. Photographed in Somers Town, London. Photograph by David Levene 6/8/21

    The G2 interview
    ‘You have to be a control freak’: Mike Leigh on 50 years of film-making

    At 78, with three Baftas and a Palme d’Or under his belt, the director still sees himself as an outsider. He talks about Hollywood’s obsession with big names, his determination to portray ‘real people’ – and being accused of pretension

September 2020

  • Alison Steadman: ‘If this was 50 years ago, when all we had was a landline and it was expensive, how would we all have coped?’

    Alison Steadman: 'I never thought I would live in such strange and scary times'

    The actor is back from lockdown with two new dramas. She talks about her 50-year career, Boris Johnson and the joy of miaowing at John Cleese, while James Corden, Julia Davis and Mike Leigh pay tribute
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