Word: leigh
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Written and directed by Mike Leigh...
...Decency, have been restored. But the important restoration is of a great film to contemporary consciousness. Indeed, comparing dimmed memories of the 1951 cut with this one, what strikes you is how resistant to censorship Tennessee Williams' work was. In the struggle between poetically yearning Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) and brutally realistic Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando) for the soul of her sister and his wife Stella (Kim Hunter), Williams personified what was for him the essential conflict of modern life. The newfound footage adds a touch of $ evil to Brando's work, makes Blanche a bit more vulnerable and stresses...
...Dave's one of the finest hitters we've had at Harvard," baseball Coach Leigh Hogan said. "Nobody's going to fill Dave's shoes 100 percent, we're not going to try to do that. He's a genuine major league prospect...
...title doesn't lie. Of the three shorts by contemporary filmmakers Steven Wright, Michael Moore, and Mike Leigh, Wright's hilarious and characteristically minimalist masterpiece, "The Appointments of Dennis Jennings," is the most gripping, especially for a viewer unexperienced in Two Mikes's unique brand of comedy. The angst-ridden "Appointments" combines the neurotic charm of a Woody Allen movie with the structured morbidity of an Edgar Allan Poe story. Even for those who have only seen him do stand-up on Letterman, the opening close-up shot of Steven Wright's head is a sight unmistakable...
...Pets or Meat" is a perfect primer for the final short of the series, Mike Leigh's "A Sense of History," where we follow an English patriarch on a walking tour of his estate as he delivers a monologue on its history. Actor Jim Broadbent gives a superb performance as the horrifyingly funny Lord Earl of Leete. Speaking coolly of more than a few unspeakable acts he has committed in order to maintain the integrity of the estate, the Earl declares his father "a nasty booby of a man who I hated ferociously," his mother "stupid," and his brother "decidedly...