Mike Leigh completed his second feature film seventeen years after his stunning debut with Bleak Moments in 1971. In those intervening years he solidified his reputation with innovatory theatre and ...

Secrets and Lies (d. Mike Leigh, 1996) looks at the lives of Black and White Britons and tries to imagine a way in which both can begin to share the same family blood link. Hortense (Marianne ...

A portrait of the life and work of the great Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, exploring both his music and his passionate interest in his country's folklore.

Family life with Andy, a professional chef who buys a decrepit hamburger van, his wife Wendy, a part-time waitress, and their daughters Nicola, sex and Marx-obsessed and a secret bullimic, and Natalie ...

Former sea captain William Targett returns to his native Dorset village. He brings with him his black wife, Tulip, a princess from Dahomey, Africa. Bigotry and ignorance among the villagers leads to ...

A portrait of pop artists Peter Blake, Derek Boshier, Pauline Boty, and Peter Phillips. If Pop Goes the Easel looks dated to present-day eyes, that's both understandable and unavoidable, but in 1962 ...

Some cinemas were forced to close during World War One when key staff were called up for war service. Others served a useful function in conveying war news, entertaining troops stationed nearby, and ...

Born Floella Benjamiyn in Trinidad on 23 September 1953, her father invented her name - 'Flo' being short for 'flower' and 'Ella' meaning 'best of all'. She was one of six children; her policeman ...

Harry Andrews (born in Tonbridge on 10 November 1911) was a strong-jawed, imposing character player of myriad British films from 1953 until his death, latterly more often in TV, and also in demand for ...

Anthony Simmons' lengthy filmography may at first appear a bizarre assortment of subjects and genres: he has made feature films and fictional shorts, independent and sponsored documentaries, ...

As with many classic films, The Third Man might have been very different had the leads been taken by the stars whom the producers first had in mind. In this case, David O. Selznick, who co-financed ...

Best remembered for her role as long-suffering Wendy McKim in Genevieve (d. Henry Cornelius, 1953) - the quintessential English rose who takes second place in her husband's affections to his vintage ...