As a kind of three cheers to the public for deciding not to watch Michael Bay’s latest piece of crap, I thought I’d post on some of the old Mike Leigh films I’ve seen which have been recently released on DVD. I’m a big fan of this guy’s films. I really wish there was an American making equivalent films here, but of course, there’s no one to fund them and no one to show them, and no one to watch them either.
I’ll start with the one I watched most recently, Four Days in July (1985). This is one of the last films Leigh made for TV, and I thought it would be one of the most ‘violent’ or heartbreaking, set as it is in Northern Ireland in the mid-80s during the always tense time of the Orange men march through the streets of Codmonger, or wherever. Continue reading 3 by Mike Leigh: Four days in July, Grown-Ups, Kiss of Death