Mike Leigh Has Spent 50 Years Refusing to Compromise. He’s Not Starting Now.
No one tells Mike Leigh what his movie is about. Not financiers, not distributors, not even Netflix, which he says could fund him “without batting an eyelid” but never has. At 83, Leigh is exactly the man he has always been: an artist with integrity. He’s telling this story to prove it. At the Savoy […]
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