HitFix talks to Oscar-nominated production designer Suzie Davies and costume designer Jacqueline Durran about building the world of Mike Leigh’s “Mr. Turner.”
Oscar-nominated 'Mr. Turner' designers talk costumes and sets of Mike Leigh's biopic
Posted by gerardkennedy · 4:09 pm · February 7th, 2015
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Industry cinematographers weigh in on film vs. digital
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:18 am · January 2nd, 2015
In a recent interview, Mike Leigh bashed Quentin Tarantino’s celluloid crusade as “bollocks.” HitFix rounds up a series of viewpoints on the ongoing film vs. digital debate with a number of the industry’s top cinematographers.
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Timothy Spall looks to the horizon in first image from Mike Leigh's latest
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:09 pm · October 22nd, 2013
He plays legendary artist J.M.W. Turner in Leigh’s long-awaited passion project.
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Mike Leigh's Turner biopic finds a home with Sony Classics
Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:02 am · March 19th, 2013
The seven-time Oscar nominee’s passion project will be released in 2014.
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Tech Support: Jacqueline Durran on playing with history (and Chanel) in 'Anna Karenina'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 11:28 am · November 23rd, 2012
The British costume designer seeks her third Oscar nod for Joe Wright’s latest
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Roundup: The selling of 'Skyfall'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:06 am · October 23rd, 2012
Also: GKIDS starts the campaign, and are pundits overestimating ‘Lincoln?’
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Italy's 'Caesar Must Die' takes top honors at Berlinale
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:20 pm · February 18th, 2012
The Berlin Film Festival jury, headed by Mike Leigh, surprised critics by handing their top prize to “Caesar Must Die” — a semi-documentary about a prison production of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” — from veteran Italian auteurs Paolo and Vittorio Taviani.
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Berlinale jury includes Gyllenhaal and Farhadi, first Competition titles announced
Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:48 am · December 23rd, 2011
With a heavyweight jury including Mike Leigh, Jake Gyllenhaal and ‘A Separation’ director Asghar Farhadi, February’s Berlin Film Festival will be hoping for a world-class Competition lineup. First on the list: Filipino provocateur Brillante Mendoza’s “Captured,” starring Isabelle Huppert.
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Mike Leigh to head 2012 Berlinale jury
Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:03 am · December 2nd, 2011
It’s the only one of the three major European festivals he hasn’t won gold at, but the Berlin Film Festival is also the first to tap leading British director Mike Leigh as their jury president.
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