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Director Mike Leigh's Favourite Films
Michael "Mike" Leigh, is a British writer and director. Because studying theatre at the Royal Academy, He began his career as theatre director. One of the most well-known work of him is Naked (1993). He won the Best Director Award at Cannes. Besides, He won the Palm d'Or with Secrets & Lies (1996) film. In 2012, Mike Leigh made his favourite film list for Sight & Sound magazine. Here the favourite films of Mike Leigh.
Tokyo Story
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. When the parents are packed off to a resort by their impatient children, the film deepens into an unbearably moving meditation on mortality.
black and white
family drama
golden palm
life & death
melancholy
social commentary
Barry Lyndon
In the Eighteenth Century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry is a young farm boy in love with his cousin Nora Brady. When Nora gets engaged to the British Captain John Quin, Barry challenges him to a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to Dublin but is robbed on the road. Without an alte ...
epic
golden palm
melancholy
The Tree of Wooden Clogs
The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever child. They decide to send him to school instead of make him help them, although this represents a great sacrif ...
Palme d'Or winner (Cannes Film Festival)
The Emigrants
In the middle of the 19th century, Kristina and Karl-Oskar live in a small rural village in Smaaland (southern Sweden). They get married and try to make a living on a small spot of land. However, the small size of their land, the infertile soil, and some bad harvests make it tough. One of their chil ...
I Am Cuba
This study of Cuba--partially written by renowned poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko--captures the island just before it made the transition to a post-revolutionary society. Moving from city to country and back again, I AM CUBA examines the various problems caused by political oppression as well as by great d ...
black and white
golden palm
Jules and Jim
In Paris, before WWI, two friends, Jules (Austrian) and Jim (French) fall in love with the same woman, Catherine. But Catherine loves and marries Jules. After the war, when they meet again in Germany, Catherine starts to love Jim... This is the story of three people in love, a love which does not af ...
golden palm
love story
melancholy
war
Songs From the Second Floor
A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. A story about our need for love, our confusion, greatness and smallness and, most of all, our vulnerability. It is a story with many characters, among them a father and his mistress, his youngest son and his girlfriend. It is a film about big ...
absurd
art house
artistic
bizarre
golden palm
independent film
Radio Days
Woody Allen's sentimental reminiscence about the golden age of radio. A series of vignettes involving radio personalities is intertwined with the life of a working class family in Rockaway Beach, NY circa 1942.
independent film
American Madness
It's the 1930s, the Depression era, and the Board of Directors of Thomas Dickson's bank want Dickson to merge with New York Trust and resign. He refuses. One night, Dickson's bank is robbed of $100,000. The suspect is Matt Brown, an ex-convict whom Dickson hired and appointed Chief Teller. Brown, wh ...
source:https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/voter/1075