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Mike Leigh

July 2024

  • ‘We need a cultural economy that can sustain a career in the arts’ … Bayadère: The Ninth Life by Shobana Jeyasingh.

    ‘The arts stop us killing each other’: stars tell Labour how to rescue Britain’s downtrodden culture

  • three side by side head shots of two men and a woman

    Toronto film festival: Jennifer Lopez, Hugh Grant and Mike Leigh head lineup

June 2024

  • Mike Leigh at the Mediterrane film festival in Malta.

    Mike Leigh: Peterloo protesters would be ‘horrified’ by voter abstention

    At the Mediterrane film festival in Malta, the film-maker spoke out against UK citizens ‘seeing justification in not voting’ in the general election
  • Not entirely on board … Mike Leigh and Walter Murch discuss the Moviola edit of Mr Turner.

    Her Name Was Moviola review – ode to editing machine a geekgasm for analogue fans

    One for the historians and tech specialists maybe, but this documentary about the Moviola, used from the 1920s until the 21st century, is a fascinating watch
  • Steve Coogan

    More than 100 artists tell Starmer to halt arms sales to Israel if he becomes PM

    Letter signatories from Steve Coogan to Paloma Faith urge Keir Starmer to ‘take stand’ for human rights and international law

May 2024

  • The Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley, London.

    Ken Loach and Mike Leigh resign as patrons of London cinema over Israeli film festival screening

    Loach said it was ‘simply unacceptable’ that the cinema is hosting the Seret film festival

March 2024

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    Tilda Swinton bedtime story among Cinema for Gaza auction lots

    Chance to make porridge with Josh O’Connor or be serenaded by Olly Alexander also up for grabs in inaugural online auction to support Medical Aid for Palestinians in Gaza

February 2024

  • Uniquely fabulous … Robbie and Gosling in Barbie.

    ‘Ryan Gosling asked me if he could have Ken underpants’: Barbie costume designer Jacqueline Durran spills her secrets

    She is the wardrobe maestro every star craves – and her pink-infused genius on Barbie could bag her yet another Oscar. From Margot Robbie’s jazzy jumpsuit to that Keira Knightley green dress, the British legend relives her finest creations

November 2023

  • Jane Horrocks in Brighton.

    The reader interview
    Jane Horrocks: ‘I’d love to be a baddie in a Tarantino movie’

    The actor answers your questions on working with Mike Leigh, starring in a New Order video and dressing as a giant Snoopy at Harrods

July 2023

  • Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy.

    From the Guardian archive
    ‘You laugh as you’re choking’: a selection of Derek Malcolm’s seminal film reviews

    The Guardian’s longstanding film critic, who has died aged 91, was known for his insight into blockbusters and art pictures alike. Here are excerpts from his takes on Solaris, Star Wars, Taxi Driver, Malcolm X and more

May 2023

  • Palme d'Or winners (l-r) Parasite (2019), Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989) and Taxi Driver (1976)

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: the best winners of Cannes’ Palme d’Or

    Twenty-one films will vie for the top spot at the 76th Cannes film festival, which starts next week, hoping to join the roll call of past classics, from Taxi Driver and M*A*S*H to Parasite

April 2023

  • Lesley Manville, photographed in London last month. She is wearing a black dress and oversized corsage

    ‘Men my age aren’t good on their own. They’re needy’: Lesley Manville on being happily single and her big problem with Hollywood

    The Mike Leigh favourite has become an Oscar-nominated A-lister. She talks about her glamorous mother, her on-stage stamina and being left holding the baby by Gary Oldman

March 2023

  • Alison Steadman

    The reader interview
    Alison Steadman: ‘We filmed the sex scene in the New Forest, so it was quite prickly’

  • Alison Steadman.

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Alison Steadman

January 2023

  • Brian Tufano in the 1990s, the decade in which he came into his own in cinematic work.

    Brian Tufano obituary

    Cinematographer who brought his imaginative sensibilities to films such as Trainspotting, Billy Elliot and Quadrophenia

December 2022

  • Sylvester Stallone running down the street in Rocky (1976).

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: the best hopeful films for a new year

    It’s time to embrace positivity – from the underdog idealism of Rocky to the transcendent A Matter of Life and Death and the gloriously morbid optimism of Harold and Maude

September 2022

  • Jean-Luc Godard shooting Le Mépris with Brigitte Bardot in 1963.

    ‘Godard shattered cinema’: Martin Scorsese, Mike Leigh, Abel Ferrara, Claire Denis and more pay tribute

    He was the explosively talented film-maker who changed cinema for all time. But what did other directing giants make of this movie legend – and did they find his latter films unwatchable?

August 2022

  • Timothy Spall

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Timothy Spall

    Ahead of the release of thriller It Snows in Benidorm, the actor is taking your questions on his life, career and bizarre way of making tea

July 2022

  • Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing

    If you watch only one film … the greatest movies by the greatest directors

    Some directors come with such huge back catalogues that it can be hard to know where to start. Enter our film critics, who suggest the best routes in to the works of some of our most prolific film-makers

May 2022

  • Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode photographed by David Vintiner for the Observer New Review.

    You ask the questions
    Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo: ‘I’ve never heard us described as an island of joy before!’

    Radio’s odd couple take questions from actors, directors and Observer readers about optimism, the films they disagree on – and biscuits
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