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Contemporary Films had a global impact and influenced my career as a director

Letters: Ross Devenish says he owes a debt to the British film distributor, while Kal Hodgson invites Mike Leigh to join the Manchester and Salford Film Society

The Guardian - UK

Tender Loving Care review – Mike Leigh’s tender and elusive study of love and mortality

Alice Bailey Johnson and Kate O’Flynn lead a tender, quietly heartbreaking drama about friendship, ageing parents and the sadness of lives moving inexorably on

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Andrew Scott and Scarlett Johansson lead star-studded London Film Festival lineup

Danny Boyle’s film about the rise of Rupert Murdoch and what is said to be the final movie by legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh will also screen at the October event

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‘Not just Hollywood crap’: Mike Leigh on the East End communist who brought world cinema to the UK

A new season celebrates Contemporary Films and its founder Charles Cooper, who bet on Britain taking to Ingmar Bergman, Yasujiro Ozu, Satyajit Ray – and a young Mike Leigh

The Guardian - UK

Tender Loving Care director Mike Leigh doubts he'll make another film

Legendary director Mike Leigh admits he's unlikely to make another film.

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Abigail’s Party review – Tamzin Outhwaite’s Bev is Madame Bovary with a Cinzano

Outhwaite’s performance as Beverly, a precision-tooled showcase in hidden anger and longing, is a triumph in this eternally resonant suburban drama

The Guardian - UK

Abigail's Party at Harold Pinter Theatre review: A deeply enjoyable dinner party from hell

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Mike Leigh says new film ‘likely’ to be his last – here’s why

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Mike Leigh says new film likely to be his last due to health issues

British filmmaker, 83, doesn’t think making a new movie will be possible

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Director Mike Leigh likely to retire after his next film due to illness

Film-maker’s drama Tender Loving Care ‘likely’ his final one as he manages myositis, a disease affecting immune system

The Guardian - US

Eric Allan obituary

Actor who played farmhand Bert Fry in The Archers for 24 years, and appeared in early episodes of Emmerdale Farm

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Chic couture, bio-terror and a whole load of Mike Leigh: Lesley Manville’s finest films – ranked!

With her 70th birthday around the corner, we assess the greatest screen outings of everybody’s favourite underrated doyenne of British cinema

The Guardian - UK

90s films that defined the decade: nine incredible cult classics

The 1990s gave rise to the blockbuster film as we know it. But in the shadow of these cinematic giants, a crop of cult hits made their way into film history

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‘It had to be Jessie Buckley’: star-maker Nina Gold glimpses Oscar chance for Hamnet casting

Woman who paired Buckley with Paul Mescal in critics’ favourite is contender in new Academy Award category

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Marianne Jean-Baptiste: ‘I’d work for Mike Leigh again in a heartbeat – in fact, I’ll pay him!’

The actor moved to LA 22 years ago. Now she’s back in the UK to star alongside Bryan Cranston in All My Sons. She talks about the frightening rehearsal schedule, how she’d work again with Mike Leigh in a heartbeat, and why she’s taking up boot-making

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Film Club: Aimee Lou Wood’s fantastical romcom is part Mike Leigh, part cosy family sitcom

The White Lotus star is an agoraphobic movie lover who puts on elaborate immersive screenings in her garage in this sweet tale of longing, anxiety and family bickering. But is it believable?

The Independent UK

Urchin review – Babygirl’s Harris Dickinson announces himself as a gutsy, thoughtful filmmaker

4/5 The British actor hasn’t wasted his cinematic education, and there are shades of many of his past collaborators – including Steve McQueen and Joanna Hogg – in this striking social-realist drama

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Netflix quietly adds award-winning 2024 drama with 95% on Rotten Tomatoes

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Documentary on Sir Paul McCartney’s lost bass guitar among new Arena films

The new films will celebrate 50 years of Arena, which began life as a magazine show in 1975.

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Play for Today is back – nine ways Channel 5 can make it as successful as the original

Between 1970 and 1984, BBC1’s experimental drama strand Play for Today created what is now regarded as classic British drama. It launched myriad acting careers and showcased high-calibre writing in plays such as Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party and Blue Remembered Hills, Dennis Potter’s acclaimed play about lost youth. It was…

The Guardian - UK

The heart triumphs over all things: why ‘anti-capitalist romcom’ Materialists isn’t just a fantasy

Celine Song’s new film may have hint of glossy 2000s romcom about it, but its take on the age old question of love or money has the cynicism of today

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Evidence emerges whether Travis Decker is alive as public issued this dire warning

The manhunt has entered its second month.

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Maxine Peake: ‘I have a healthy balance of inferiority complex and slightly prickly ego’

The actor on working with Mike Leigh, death by disco ball and drinking on the job

The Guardian - UK

More than 400 media figures urge BBC board to remove Robbie Gibb over Gaza

Miriam Margolyes, Alexei Sayle and Mike Leigh among signatories to letter criticising Jewish Chronicle ties

The Guardian - UK

Best films of 2025 in the UK so far

From a dark and death-haunted classic by Mike Leigh to Tom Cruise’s final highwire stunt and Timothée Chalamet’s brilliant embodiment of Dylan we rewind six months of sensational cinema – in order of their UK release date

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