Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh - Brossura

Raphael, Amy; Leigh, Mike

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571204694 ISBN 13: 9780571204694

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2008

Riassunto

In Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh, edited by Amy Raphael, Britain's foremost director of stage, screen and cinema speaks for the first time about his unique working methods.

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Amy Raphael has written for all the UK broadsheets and myriad magazines, including The Face, Esquire and the Radio Times. Her first book, Never Mind the Bollocks: Women Rewrite Rock was published in 1995 and an updated version, A Seat at the Table: Women on the Frontline of Music, was published in 2019. A Game of Two Halves: Famous Football Fans Meet Their Heroes, with forewords by both Gary Lineker and Raheem Sterling, raised money for UNCHR. She co-wrote Steve Coogan's autobiography Easily Distracted and worked with David Hare on his memoir, The Blue Touch Paper. Her second middle-grade novel, The Ship of Cloud and Stars, will be published in January 2022. Danny Boyle in Conversation with Amy Raphael was published 2013 and Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh was originally published in 2008.

Born in Salford, Manchester, in 1943, Mike Leigh has developed a unique method of creating films through controlled improvisations. After his debut Bleak Moments (1971) he made a succession of admired TV plays, including Abigail's Party and Nuts in May. He then returned to feature films: High Hopes (1988), Life is Sweet (1990), Naked (1993). Secrets and Lies won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1996. Topsy-Turvy (1999) won two Oscars. All or Nothing followed in 2002. Since then he has made the Oscar-nominated Vera Drake (2004), which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) and Another Year (2010). He also did Two Thousand Years for the National Theatre in 2005.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0571204694
• ISBN 13: 9780571204694
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 464
• Redattore: Raphael Amy
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