{"product_id":"9780571353828-mike-leigh-on-mike-leigh","title":"Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis new edition updates Mike Leigh's career to his most recent films, Mister Turner and the epicmasterpiece Peterloo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new revised edition brings Mike Leigh's career up-to-date, \u003ci\u003eincluding his film about J.M.W. Turner, Mr. Turner, and his epic masterpiece, Peterloo.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFive-time Oscar nominee and BAFTA winner, the only British director to have won the top prize at both Cannes (for \u003ci\u003eSecrets \u0026amp; Lies\u003c\/i\u003e) and Venice (for \u003ci\u003eVera Drake\u003c\/i\u003e) - Mike Leigh is unquestionably one of world cinema's \u003cbr\u003epre-eminent figures. Now, in this definitive career-length interview, he reflects on all that has gone into the making of his unique body of work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn their commingling of bleakness and humour, Leigh's films recreate the tragi-comic 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. Leigh's work has always reflected its times and entered the vernacular, whether the harsh studies of \u003ci\u003eMeantime\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNaked\u003c\/i\u003e or the humour of the now-legendary \u003ci\u003eAbigail's Party\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNuts in May\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbove 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWithin 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57536539984246,"sku":"9780571353828","price":22.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_36362004.jpg?v=1774289168","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571353828-mike-leigh-on-mike-leigh","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}