Sill from Peterloo. Cornerstone Films October 22, 2018 Mike Leigh’s Peterloo: a worthy film that’s long on detail and short on drama Steven Fielding, University of Nottingham As a left-wing rallying cry, this account of the 1819 massacre in Manchester fails to rouse the inner revolutionary.
Watkins on the set of his last film, La Commune (1871) Icarus Films October 28, 2015 Britain’s greatest living filmmaker? You may never have heard of him John Cook, Glasgow Caledonian University Peter Watkins may not be a household name, but The Hunger Games, John Lennon’s Imagine and the Bourne films would be very different without him.
Timothy Spall plays the British painter Joseph Turner in Mike Leigh’s latest film, Mr Turner. Transmission Films November 26, 2014 Mike Leigh’s Mr Turner is no oil painting Ted Snell, The University of Western Australia The work of art is that mysterious process that transforms pigment and canvas into an object of great beauty. Depicting that moment of creative inspiration has been a challenge for filmmakers since the…