Tag: Ron Cook

Secrets and Lies (1996)

Dir. Mike Leigh. Starring Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Timothy Spall I’m not the world’s foremost Mike Leigh expert or anything, but I was amazed when he did something I’d never seen him do before in a movie: he rushed. The movie’s final confrontation is like coming downstairs, missing one, stumbling, but adjusting in the last… Read More Secrets and Lies (1996)

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Topsy-Turvy (1999)

Dir. Mike Leigh. Starring Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Michael Savage Some movies are perfect in the grammatical, Latin sense. Casablanca is a perfect movie. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul is a perfect movie. So are The Leopard, Ordet, and The Thin Red Line.  (Making a list of “perfect movies” might be a potentially fatal wormhole.) These movies accomplish: at the end,… Read More Topsy-Turvy (1999)

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