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BRITISH FILM Mike Leigh MAKERS WWhhiitteehheeaadd__0000__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd ii 2299//33//0077 1155::5522::2255 Brian McFarlane, Neil Sinyard series editors BRITISH Allen Eyles, Philip French, Sue Harper, FILM Tim Pulleine, Jeffrey Richards, Tom Ryall series advisers MAKERS already published Anthony Asquith tom ryall Roy Ward Baker geoff mayer Sydney Box andrew spicer Jack Clayton neil sinyard Lance Comfort brian mcfarlane Terence Davies wendy everett Terence Fisher peter hutchings Launder and Gilliat bruce babington Derek Jarman rowland wymer Joseph Losey colin gardner Carol Reed peter william evans Michael Reeves benjamin halligan Karel Reisz colin gardner J. Lee Thompson steve chibnall WWhhiitteehheeaadd__0000__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd iiii 2299//33//0077 1155::5522::2277 BRITISH FILM Mike Leigh MAKERS Tony Whitehead Manchester University Press manchester and new york distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave WWhhiitteehheeaadd__0000__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd iiiiii 2299//33//0077 1155::5522::2277 Copyright © Tony Whitehead 2007 The right of Tony Whitehead to be identifi ed as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Published by Manchester University Press Oxford Road, Manchester m13 9nr, UK and Room 400, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, ny 10010, USA www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, ny 10010, USA Distributed exclusively in Canada by UBC Press, University of British Columbia, 2029 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada v6t 1z2 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for isbn 978 0 7190 7236 9 hardback isbn 978 0 7190 7237 6 paperback First published 2007 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Typeset in Scala with Meta display by Koinonia, Manchester Printed in Great Britain by CPI, Bath WWhhiitteehheeaadd__0000__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd iivv 2299//33//0077 1155::5522::2277 For Pete Walsh – simply the best WWhhiitteehheeaadd__0000__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd vv 2299//33//0077 1155::5522::2277 WWhhiitteehheeaadd__0000__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd vvii 2299//33//0077 1155::5522::2277 Contents list of plates page ix series editors’ foreword xi acknowledgements xii Introduction: ‘You’ve gotta laugh’ 1 1 ‘Really wants to direct’: formative years 11 2 ‘A kind of language’: Bleak Moments 18 3 ‘A long time in the womb’: the TV fi lms 33 4 ‘A different world’: High Hopes 56 5 ‘So long as you’re happy’: Life Is Sweet 75 6 ‘The future is now’: Naked 90 7 ‘Welcome to the family’: Secrets and Lies 114 8 ‘All these memories’: Career Girls 135 9 ‘Laughter – tears – curtain’: Topsy-Turvy 147 10 ‘Life’s too short’: All or Nothing 162 11 ‘Out of the kindness of her heart’: Vera Drake 179 Conclusion: ‘The journey continues’ 196 fi lmography 198 select bibliography 209 index 213 WWhhiitteehheeaadd__0000__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd vviiii 2299//33//0077 1155::5522::2277 WWhhiitteehheeaadd__0000__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd vviiiiii 2299//33//0077 1155::5522::2277 list of plates ix List of plates 1 ‘Top of the world’: Ruth Sheen, Edna Doré and Philip Davis in High Hopes page 71 2 ‘We love you, you stupid girl!’: Alison Steadman and Jane Horrocks in Life Is Sweet 71 3 ‘Aren’t people pathetic?’: Katrin Cartlidge, Gregg Cruttwell, Lesley Sharp and David Thewlis in Naked 72 4 A bravura set piece: Elizabeth Berrington, Marianne Jean- Baptiste, Brenda Blethyn, Phyllis Logan, Timothy Spall, Claire Rushbrook and Lee Ross in Secrets and Lies 72 5 Younger selves: Katrin Cartlidge and Lynda Steadman in Career Girls 73 6 Rapport and chemistry: Lesley Manville and Timothy Spall in All or Nothing 73 7 Alone with her thoughts and fears: Alex Kelly, Imelda Staunton, 74 Adrian Scarborough and Daniel Mays in Vera Drake 74 8 Mike Leigh during the fi lming of All or Nothing These stills are used with the kind permission of Mike Leigh and Thin Man Films, and were photographed by Simon Mein. WWhhiitteehheeaadd__0000__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd iixx 2299//33//0077 1155::5522::2277 WWhhiitteehheeaadd__0000__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd xx 2299//33//0077 1155::5522::2277
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