Watch: Mike Leigh's Series Of 5-Minute Short Films
Few other working filmmakers are as skilled at creating an immersive, lived-in world as Mike Leigh. Part of this can be attributed to his unusual, and now-famous, rehearsal process. Leigh is known to take weeks, sometimes months, rehearsing with his actors, working on scripted dialogue, throwing it away, and creating new material on the spot so that the finished film feels vital. Leigh’s body of work is formidable — for my money, “Naked” and “Vera Drake” are highlights — and it is exactly this... Читать дальше...