‘We can all deliver a speech” brags a 19th-century argumentifier, one of many crowding Mike Leigh’s impressive but imperfect political history Peterloo. As in his other period ...

For more than 50 years, Mike Leigh has been one of Britain's most ... about the artist JMW Turner, and Peterloo, about the Peterloo massacre. “In all three cases, we were able to say: ‘This ...

Books & the Arts / In “Hard Truths,” Leigh reminds us that a family dinner can tell the story of a whole society. J. Hoberman A spring morning on a quiet street in suburban North London. Inside an ...

0:37 Nick and Fiona talk about Mike Leigh’s new film, Peterloo. It’s about an 1819 pro-democracy workers’ rights rally in Manchester, UK which turned into one of the bloodiest massacres in ...

Mike Leigh has pushed back against “offensive ... people called 19th-century human beings [Topsy-Turvy, Mr Turner and Peterloo]. The fear of ‘Am I allowed to tell this story?’ ...

soldiers charged the crowd resulting in a massacre which almost two hundred years later British director Mike Leigh has brought to the big screen in his film Peterloo. At the time, 30 years after ...

Mike Leigh's mighty reputation as a filmmaker was ... hugely disappointing Peterloo (2018) – he returns to more familiar pastures with Hard Truths. Marianne Jean-Baptiste, working with Leigh ...

In Hard Truths Mike Leigh, one of Britain’s greatest living ... historical dramas Mr Turner and Peterloo, the director returns to the setting that made his name with another exploration of ...

Mike Leigh has pushed back against “offensive and racist” criticisms of his latest ... Days in July], plus three films set among a very remote people called 19th-century human beings [Topsy-Turvy, Mr ...