Mike Leigh on Naked, Working with Actors, and His Career
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- čas přidán 1. 06. 2022
- Mike Leigh on the making of his film, Naked, during Human Conditions: The Films of Mike Leigh, moderated by FLC Senior Associate of Programming Maddie Whittle. Our retrospective continues through June 8! Get tickets: www.filmlinc.org/series/human...
Dancing on a razor’s edge between the sordid and the hilarious, between violence and tenderness, Mike Leigh’s astonishing fourth theatrical feature (for which he won Best Director at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival) takes us into the complex world of a London drifter named Johnny (David Thewlis, Best Actor at Cannes). We follow Johnny as he undertakes a true journey to the end of the night, encountering a succession of familiar and alien faces, ranting, raving, and generally behaving badly all along the way. As the golden-tongued antihero, a repugnant sadist with quicksilver charm, Thewlis is a revelation. Arguably Leigh’s most visually striking film, and perhaps his most influential in its bold portrayal of a violently, explosively flawed yet nevertheless magnetic protagonist, Naked endures as one of the great film portraits of a lost soul. An NYFF31 selection. 4K Restoration. A Janus Films release.
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This is one of my favorite films of all time. I really enjoy hearing Mike Leigh speak about it. It was a cult movie at the time, and I remember a play in a Utrecht Arts Festival, where one of the actors did Johnny's monologue (in the office building) -- in Dutch! It was phenomenal and a testimony to David Thewlis's brilliant performance.
I love how he engages the audience without being condescending or intimidating.
Leigh is a great master as a 1. writer 2. director 3. sociologist! In all three he captures and reveals the Zeitgeist of postmodern times!
Release the Topsy-Turvy Q&A if you can! Maybe the best Q&A I've ever seen, and I'd love to see it again.
First time watching a film of him. What great experienced in the theater. Raw and funny in it’s way. Thank you Mike Leigh
Yes please release the Topsy Turvy Q+A!
He's one of the best and underrated filmmakers ever..
Meantime is his best, pure masterpiece
Naked...one of my favorite film.
30:39 telling of our sad times.
I don't get it what was said of did I stop to early to catch it
plz invite ken loach
❤
Oh my god obviously Naked does not share the world view of its protagonist. If anyone thinks that I’m afraid they have totally misread the film.
Yea orherwise one has to put mike leigh in prison. but i dont see the reason for shooting the movie then. People are lonely and terrible, thats nothing new. Why should you show rape scene after rape scene without any takeaway? It feels like the question in the beginning „do women like to be raped“ is the whole premise. Every character is so one dimensional and especielly the woman. There has to be some of his view of the world involved and thats sad.
@@yeyehehe4278 all of the actors wrote their own dialogue and created their own characters
@@bucc2742 that's not true
@@yeyehehe4278 I'm not going to have an argument with you. Please tell me what is actually true.
@@bucc2742 mike Leigh wrote them
I tried so hard with naked and at the end after watching it many times I still find it a mess, incoherent narrative and weird for the same of being weird
And I love mike Leigh’s work.. specially Vera Drake and happy go lucky.. I think those are his masterpieces
Naked is not so much a narrative as it is an experience
Naked by far his magnum opus
Meantime is his best
@@fatherpaulstone896 can’t go wrong with that I love meantime aswell
I think the films asks you to sit with it rather than search for higher structure. It’s a fairly simple film.
Strange film and even stranger interview. Leigh seems far too protective of Johnny for my liking. He may be a complex character but he's also a misogynist and frankly an arsehole. The men in this film get away with murder and there doesn't seem to be any real message behind the action or any justice for the characters that are violated. Bleak and unsatisfying
Snowflake, don't tell us your a male "feminist"
drip