Wednesday, March 15, 2017

plato's cave seventeen (being a film journal) mike leigh

mike leigh - high hopes - 1988

the films of mike leigh part two

high hopes, mike leigh's film from 1988, centered around a working-class couple in london. one a karl marx worshiping commie, and the other a rather lovely person that is matronly and desires to have a baby.

ruth sheen
one of mike leigh's greatest collaborators
other mike leigh films :
- secrets & lies - 1996
- all or nothing - 2002
- vera drake - 2004
- another year - 2010, here she plays gerri a role she said took months and months to develop, in one of leigh's greatest films
- mr. tuner - 2014

phil davis
his first film was in pasolini's canterbury tales
other mike leigh films :
- who's who from play for today tv - 1979
- grown-ups from bbc2 playhouse tv - 1980
- secrets & lies - 1996
- vera drake - 2004
- another year - 2010

jason watkins (man with suitcase)
his only film with mike leigh

lesley manville
plays "sue" alongside gary oldman in alan clarke's 1989 masterpiece the firm. another great leigh collaborator
other mike leigh films :
- grown-ups from bbc2 playhouse tv - 1980 
- secrets & lies - 1996
- topsy-turvy - 1999, the only film by mike leigh that does not do much for me, maybe it is the subject matter
- all or nothing - 2002
- vera drake - 2004
- another year - 2010
- mr. turner - 2014

david bamber
the yuppie-thatcherite who declares ''what made this country great is a place for everyone, and everyone in his place.''
his only film with mike leigh

philip jackson
also in an alan clarke film; scum from 1979
his only film with mike leigh

linda beckett
other mike leigh films :
- bleak moments - 1971
- secrets & lies - 1996

heather tobias
her only film with mike leigh

edna doré
other mike leigh films :
- all or nothing - 2002
- another year - 2010

cheryl prime
her only film with mike leigh

judith scott (with yellow bag)
plays suzi and competes with cyril in commie talk
other mike leigh films :
- vera drake - 2004

cinematography - roger pratt
other mike leigh films :
- bleak moments - 1971 as assistant camera-man
- meantime - 1984
- the short & curlies - 1988

music - andrew dickson
other mike leigh films :
- meantime - 1984
- naked - 1993
- secrets & lies - 1996
- all or nothing - 2002
- vera drake - 2004

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