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Grown-Ups (1980 Film, Video)

Director

Mike Leigh

Producer

Louis Marks

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A play devised by Mike Leigh. Concerns a young couple whose ‘dream-come-true’ of moving into a council house is threatened by their relationships with the wife’s sister and their next-door neighbour.

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Abigail’s Party (1977 Television, Video)

Series

Play for Today

Producer

Margaret Matheson

Television production of the stage play devised by Mike Leigh. The improvised action unfolds over an evening in the living room of Beverly and Lawrence’s house in suburbia as Beverly hosts a drinks party...

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High Hopes (2007)

Director

Mike Leigh

Subject

Drama; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 116 minutes), £14.99

A disparate cast of characters swim in and out of each others lives against a background of London and its suburbs, seamlessly orchestrated by director Mike Leigh. DVD extras: Original Theatrical Film (108...

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Secrets and Lies (1995 Video)

Director

Mike Leigh

Subject

Drama

Distribution

DVD

A successful career woman who has just buried her adoptive parents decides to search for her real mother.

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Life is Sweet (1990 Video)

Director

Mike Leigh

Producer

Simon Channing-Williams

Subject

Drama

Distribution

DVD

A comedy following four days in the life of a working-class family as they interact and play out family conflict and love.

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Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (1974)

Director

Stuart Cooper

Subject

Drama; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 111 minutes), £19.99

This chillingly dark comedy, based on the 1965 stage play by David Halliwell, was filmed in bleak, wintry Oldham in 1974 and has rarely been seen in almost 40 years. Expelled art student Scrawdyke leads his...

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Party, The (2017)

Director

Sally Potter

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 71 minutes), £6.99

Janet has just been appointed as shadow health minister, the crowning achievement of her political career. She and her husband Bill plan to celebrate this with a few close friends. As the guests arrive at...

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Mike Leigh at the BBC (2009)

Director

Mike Leigh

Subject

Drama; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 706 minutes), £59.99

A 6-DVD box set rounding up Mike Leigh’s work for the BBC, showcasing all of his surviving work, and including his contributions to the influential Play For Today series. Features Hard Labour (1973), The...

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Merchant of Venice, The (2012 Video)

Director

Ilan Ronen

Video recording of Habima’s (Israeli National Theatre) staging of The Merchant of Venice for the Globe to Globe season. Jacob Cohen is Shylock. Spoken in Hebrew.

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Cesare Deve Morire (2012 Film)

aka: Caesar Must die

Director

Paolo Taviani; Vittorio Taviani

Documentary. A performance of scenes from Julius Caesar by inmates of the Roman maximum security prison Rebibbia. One of them comments: ‘Ever since I discovered art this cell has truly become a prison’....

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