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Echo columnists: I WAS more than happy to stay in for Liz Smith Night (BBC4, Monday). (Liverpool Echo.co.uk )

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT

The 86-year-old, who starred as the much-loved Nana in The Royle Family, was the subject of a fascinating Mark Lawson Talks To ... interview, while her final appearance as Nana, together with a 1975 episode of I Didn’t Know You Cared and Mike Leigh’s 1973 Play For Today, Hard Labour, were also shown.

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Revisiting a Filmmaker’s Legacy (FilmStew.com)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:13:04 GMT

... inspired by Douglas’ own experiences to make it to DVD.All three black and white films were shot Mike Leigh style with non-professional actors to tell the tale of Douglas’ younger years. Remarkably, per a in the Herald newspaper, the Silver Lion winner (set in 1945) was made for only 3,500 pounds, while My Ain Folk cost 12,000 pounds and My Way Home required 33,000 pounds because...

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News: Blue's Lee Ryan Debuts in Pretender at New Players (Whatsonstage.com)

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:59:42 GMT

... party that reveals secrets lurking beneath the respectable façade with the same dark subtlety as Mike Leigh’s classic Abigail’s Party. While in Blue, singer and songwriter courted controversy when he said the 9/11 terrorist attacks were not as important as the number of elephants who died annually died through poaching. Since leaving the band in 2005, he’s released his eponymous debut...

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African Footprint At 29th Durban International Film Festival (All Africa)

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:48:52 GMT

... a gritty gangster thriller set on the harsh streets of Johannesburg and will close with Mike Leigh's uplifting new comedy, "Happy-Go-Lucky."The festival will once again shine a spotlight on the cinema of Africa under the African Perspectives theme, presenting the world premieres of "Nothing But The Truth" by John Kani, which is based on his popular play; "My Black Little Heart" by...

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Square Eyes 14-17 July (The Stage | TV Today)

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:40:47 GMT

... a heartbreaking final performance as Nana. There are also showings of other Smith turns, including Mike Leigh’s 1973 Play For Today , Hard Labour . The centrepiece of the evening is Mark Lawson Talks to Liz Smith , in which the always charming and self-effacing actress talks in detail about a life that started in near poverty and took her to being a national treasure. Bonekickers...

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Nine More Trailers Added To The Twitch Trailer Park! (Twitch)

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:16:16 GMT

Thanks to the keen eye of our very own Wolf we’ve now added nine more trailers to the ever expanding TIFF Trailer Park - absolutely the most comprehensive collection of trailers for films participating in the Toronto International Film Festival. You want to check out the new Mike Leigh, Guy Ritchie or Baltasar Kormakur flicks? They’re all in there now. Want to help out by tracking down...

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'Bees' stings Toronto (Variety.com)

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:59:37 GMT

Seven titles were added to the fest’s Special Presentations program. They are the world preems of “Borat” director Larry Charles’ doc “Religulous,” David Koepp’s “Ghost Town,” and and Adam Del Deo’s “Every Little Step.” Other titles are Wong Kar Wai’s “Ashes of Time Redux,” Mike Leigh’s “Happy-Go-Lucky,” Guy Ritchie’s “RocknRolla” and Ari Folman’s animated feature “Waltz With Bashir,”...

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Comment dit-on "exchange rate"? (goatdogblog)

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:09:34 GMT

So let me start by saying that I came thisclose to meeting Mike Leigh, whose new film is opening in Paris soon. I was having lunch with a French critic who had a press conference with Leigh after lunch, followed...

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Love Changes Everything (vaguely.org)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:19:44 GMT

The former was said by an ex-schoolfriend, whose hen party was this weekend. The six years with her fiance (a mature student she met at university) have changed her from a caustic demi-Goth bound for art school, into something nearer to Poppy in Mike Leigh’s Happy Go Lucky. She’s now working as a primary school teacher, drinks a brightly-coloured cocktail or two, and will admit to liking...

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DEAR WORLD, #1 (Donal Foreman)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:12:02 GMT

... we should draw, not palliative comfort, but a real sense that life doesn’t stop being about life. —Mike Leigh, interviewed by Nick Curtis .

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'Kung Fu Panda' bags Aussie No.1 (Digital Spy)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:23:00 GMT

Jack Black's animated comedy has climbed to number one in the Australian box office.The DreamWorks feature held off competition from Steve Carell's action comedy Get Smart, which landed at number two.Last week's number one You Don't Mess With The Zohan slipped to third, while fell two places to fourth.Elsewhere, Mike Leigh's comedy drama Happy Go-Lucky moved up eleven places to enter...

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A huge evergrowing pulsating brain that rules from the centre of the ultraworld* (Hacking Cough)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:10:40 GMT

Whenever I read something from the Cult of the Singularity, I find it hard to not conjure up the hectoring tones of Johnny from Mike Leigh's film Naked. You have to wonder how many spurious factoids David Thewlis had to...

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Edinburgh with Mum and Dad (Big Screen Little Screen)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:42:42 GMT

... think the best way to describe the film is to imagine dropping The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , a few Mike Leigh Films and a couple of Martin Parr photos into a blender and inspeting the grusome, twee and very Britsh outcome. Sadly after the first 30 minutes Mum and Dad has already packed its biggest punch. The following shocks, blood and severed limbs begin to randomly fall all over...

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'Snow' to fall on Sarajevo (Variety.com)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:43:44 GMT

... who have confirmed their attendance at the festival, which runs August 15-23.British filmmaker Mike Leigh - a past recipient of the special heart of Sarajevo award - will be in the Bosnian capital to present his latest film "Happy-Go-Lucky", which picked up a best actress award for Sally Hawkins when it premiered in Berlin earlier this year.Also attending are Israeli director Ari...

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Brick Lane: A Nuanced Look at an Arranged Marriage (Alternet)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:00:01 GMT

... in the immigrant neighborhood of Brick Lane in London.Brick Lane is a very British film. Think Mike Leigh. It's quiet, nothing blows up and tells a story of a woman whose life is quite unremarkable. Nazneen is stuck, she believes that life is about endurance, but when she meets Karim (Christopher Simpson) a young activist who gives her sewing work, she comes alive. Karim gives her...

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Bill Douglas Trilogy (DVD Times)

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:53:45 GMT

... overtly commercial. The Seventies, after all, was the decade where such talents as Ken Loach, Mike Leigh and Stephen Frears spent most of their time working for television. And if you look at the career of Terence Davies, who also began a BFI-produced autobiographical trilogy in that decade, someone who has just made his first film in eight years, you shouldn’t be surprised that Douglas...

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Wed 16.40: Mike Leigh opens new Bath theatre (This is Bath)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:49:25 GMT

He said: "It is very exciting to know that generations of young performers, actors, dancers, directors, musicians, film makers and many more will use this theatre for their new and exciting work. "I bless this theatre and all who laugh and cry in it." Although not directly involved with the university, Mr Leigh used to teach with the head of the drama department, Gunduz Kalic, at an acting school...

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Sydney 2008 opening night Gala (Festival21.com)

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:19:31 GMT

Check out the great red carpet pictures from the Opening Night Gala of Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky. Photographer Belinda Rolland and Fiora Sacco. GILLIAN ARMSTRONG, CLARE STEWART AND ESSIE DAVIS read more

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Margaret Heffernan: Mike Leigh, Randy Pausch, Reader's Digest and an End to Miserablism (The Huffington Post)

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:34:43 GMT

Mike Leigh, who more or less invented miserablism as an art form, has changed his tune. His new film, Happy-Go-Lucky is, as the title suggests, cheerful. What's he doing?

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Craig's tuxedo goes under the hammer (Channel 4 )

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:20:06 GMT

A bowling ball from The Big Lebowski, which has been signed by the Coen Brothers, an original painting from Brideshead Revisited, books signed by Grant, Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Sir John Mills and items autographed by the likes of Tom Stoppard, Mike Leigh and Jim Henson are also up for sale.

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