Mike Leigh

News, views and opinions from Student Hub contributors and Irish Times writers

Who thought we’d end up praising the facets of a Leigh film that feel most like the work of David Lean?

Why is ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ not a musical? Because it wants to be an Oscar contender

I didn’t know he was accused of sexual assault and was an apologist for a KGB-trained autocrat

The Favourite from Yorgos Lanthimos will compete for the Golden Lion at Venice and John Butler’s Papi Chulo will premiere at Toronto

Director Debra Granik on her new film ‘Leave No Trace’ and her biggest movie-making influences

Oleg Sentsov is serving a 20-year sentence on terrorism charges thought to have been fabricated

Singer on how David Hockney inspired his album artwork, and the energy of New York

Programme flush with exciting talent but only three of 18 films competing for Palme d’Or have female directors

‘A lot of the former prisoners said the story of the film is very much their story’

Oscar-nominated actor on breaking through age barriers, Harry Potter and why she hates Irish dancing

After a year in which three well-known Northern actors took their lives, a three-week programme of events, Edgefest, focuses on male mental health

Hawke was a posterboy for generation X actors. But after seeing first hand where his precocious talent could lead, he's become a thoughtful veteran of the Hollywood machine

‘Cardboard Gangsters’ is a ’hood film, not a gangster film, says director Mark O’Connor

Anna Friel is brilliant as the lead in Jimmy McGovern’s bleak drama about faith and desperation

Co-stars and directors pay tribute to Liz Smith who died aged 95 on Christmas Eve

Development plan ignores how cameras see the city and distribute its image worldwide

The director greets questions with a sigh, suffers no fools - and is entirely fascinating

Enda Bowe’s photographs of an unnamed Irish town reveal young people on the brink of greater awareness

Now 45, the Frames frontman feels he is getting better at songwriting, and is happier ‘in my skin and in my songs’ – although he reckons he’s only halfway there on his own musical journey

Oleg Sentsov sentenced for alleged terror plot in what critics describe as a ‘show trial’

Tom Murphy’s great play, currently at the Gate, subverts Irish and English stereotypes. How did director David Grindley rise to the challenge?

The London actor, one of the best in the business, views acting as a trade and feels strongly about the lack of working-class representation

Every January Turner’s watercolours are put on show as requested in Henry Vaughan’s bequest

’Eva International’, in Limerick, was on a par with other art biennials

They certainly don’t have to be, and Mike Leigh’s Mr Turner is a shining example

There’s a Marxist message about class struggle deep in ‘Devious Maids’, but it’s been lost under the sex and silliness

Timothy Spall and Julianne Moore among award winners from the Cannes Jury

Palme d’Or ceremony brought forward to avoid clash with Euro election results

Two films seem to be battling for the Palme d’Or: Mr Turner and Winter Sleep

In town to plug what he says is his last film, ‘Queen and Country’, 25-time Cannes veteran John Boorman goes on a four-decade Riviera reverie, and reveals a few long-kept festival secrets along the way

Mike Leigh’s study of the English painter is particularly distinguished by a stunning performance from Timothy Spall

Family of the late Princess Grace have denounced the film

The main programme this year is dominated by serious, off-centre film-makers including Loach, Leigh and the Dardennes, while a welcome sprinkling of controversy accompanies a film about the late Princess Grace

American Studies Association says move is ‘in solidarity with scholars and students deprived of academic freedom’

From Adrian Mole to Ben Elton and Billy Bragg, everyone had an opinion on the Iron Lady