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Vera Drake

May 2022

  • From left: Vera Drake; Interstellar; Brooklyn; The Matrix Resurrections; Ex Machina.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Vera Drake to Ex Machina: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Imelda Staunton is outstanding in Mike Leigh’s incredibly timely drama, while Alicia Vikander is the perfect AI creation in Alex Garland’s directorial debut. Plus, Keanu Reeves is back with more Matrix

November 2019

  • Imelda Staunton

    Imelda Staunton set to replace Olivia Colman in Netflix's The Crown

    Oscar-nominated 63-year-old will reportedly play the Queen in seasons five and six of drama

October 2018

  • Mike Leigh photographed at his production offices in Soho.

    You ask the questions
    'Silly question!' Mike Leigh interviewed by our readers and famous fans

    The acclaimed director answers a wide range of your questions about creative freedom, James Bond, and everything Rada didn’t teach him

February 2017

  • Imelda Staunton at the Hampstead theatre.

    Imelda Staunton: ‘I’m intimidated by following in very big shoes… But I bloody well will’

    As she prepares to play Martha, Elizabeth Taylor’s role in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the actor talks about how she ‘ducked and dived’ her way to the top

February 2015

  • mike leigh

    Mike Leigh to be given 2015 Bafta fellowship

    Veteran director recognised by the British Academy despite his latest film, artist biopic Mr Turner, failing to secure any major-category nominations in this year’s Bafta awards

May 2009

  • Guide to performing: acting
    Daniel Mays: 'I build intensity so I can explode on set'

    Daniel Mays, of Atonement, Vera Drake and Red Riding, talks about acting techniques

November 2006

  • The world of Vera Drake is not a dramatic invention

    Letters: I know where I was the day Kennedy was assassinated, I was travelling by train to an appointment with an "illegal abortionist" (Zoe Williams, G2, October 27).

April 2005

  • Vera Drake

    Cert 12

March 2005

  • And not even the goody bag goes to ...

    With three nominations for Vera Drake, the acclaimed director Mike Leigh took a deep breath and set off, again, for the Oscars. Here is his brilliant account of a week in which he partied with Clive Owen, Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty alongside the rest of Hollywood's A-list.

February 2005

  • Big hitters share the spoils at Bafta showdown

    Vanessa Thorpe sees Vera Drake and The Aviator dominate the awards.

  • Vera Drake picks up best film gong

    Vera Drake, the Mike Leigh movie which is leading British hopes at this year's Oscars, has won the best film accolade at a London awards ceremony.

  • Life goes on

    Ed Guiton: Some people want me to travel backwards from medical frontiers to the era of Vera Drake. No thanks.

January 2005

  • Vera Drake picks up 11 Bafta nominations

    Leigh's 1950s abortion tale challenges US flight epic.

  • Tea and sympathy

    Philip French: This is a thoughtful film, provocative without starkly presenting itself as a conventional problem play

    • The Guardian profile: Mike Leigh

    • My own Vera Drake

    • A deadly trade

December 2004

  • 'I'm allowed to do what I want - that amazes me'

  • Awards triumph for Vera Drake

November 2004

  • Staunton makes European award shortlist

    Vera Drake star hopes for best actress win in Barcelona to boost Oscar prospects

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