Mike Leigh’s Historical Epic is Long On Speeches, Short on Connections
Directed By Michael Leigh / 2019
In Peterloo, British filmmaker Mike Leigh put...
My Life Filtered Through the Silver Screen
An idea I find personally resonant about people and the movies – expressed by cineastes as varied as Francois Truffau...
A Slightly Obsessed Genre Special!
OVERVIEW
Back in 2013 I started a weekly, self-imposed discipline of movie write-ups on my Facebook page. My intent—besides...
The Problem of Johnny
DIRECTOR: MIKE LEIGH/1993
Take the image of a scruffy, dour figure dressed in a black trenchcoat standing ruefully in the trash-strewn th...
