Nuts In May (Mike Leigh, 1976)

A middle-class couple go camping in Dorset, but peace and quiet elude them.

Directed by: Mike Leigh

Stars: Roger Sloman, Alison Steadman, Anthony O’Donnell

This is one of the episodes of the British TV Series "Play for Today", which ran from 1970 to 1984.
This is one directed by the great Mike Leigh. More to come.

Subtitles: English.

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/LY_w0ebboVw

Copyright owner is blocking pnly in United Kingdom

Naked, by Mike Leigh (1993)

I have been posting Mike Leigh´s movies on my YouTube channels for a long time. My audience like his films very much. This one I have not posted before. 

My channel is not public anymore because the tyrant YouTube adores to remove my channels. This is the 4th or 5th channel. I only use YT for storing the videos and my blog www.revistacinetv.com.br is the site you need to visit to pick up the movie. If you have a few bucks left, don´t forget your friend here.

This movie is blocked only in Blocked only in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia,  Ukraine, Uzbekistan. So, thank you, Mr. Mike Leigh, to let your masterpieces be open to public.

Naked is the story of frustratingly awful people behaving in frustratingly awful ways. David Thewlis plays the main character who goes on long annoying rants about everything in the world, and yet for some reason he finds people willing to sit through his babbling. This is the type of irritating good-for-nothing guy who would probably be more likely to find himself living on the street and begging for loose change on a subway platform in real life.

Director & Writer Mike Leigh

Stars: David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge. And Toby Jones, as the man at the tea bar.

To prepare for the role of Johnny, David Thewlis read Voltaire's Candide, the teachings of Buddha and James Gleick's Chaos, and the holy books the Bible and the Qur'an.

The script was largely created by improvisation during 11 weeks of rehearsal before shooting. The script was only 25 pages long.

Mike Leigh first had the idea for the story while a student in Manchester in the early 1960s: "We had a very enlightened teacher who endlessly reminded us that the next total eclipse would be in August 1999. In 1992 the millennium was impending, so I brought that idea to the film."

Subtitles: English and Portuguese

LINK: https://youtu.be/rLQuZx5X3Vs

Topsy -Turvy, by Mike Leigh (1999)

Topsy Turvy captures Gilbert and Sullivan in the midst of a turbulent period in their partnership. Desperate to be taken more seriously as a composer, Arthur Sullivan attempts to renege on the Gilbert and Sullivan contract with the Savoy Theatre. While his partner William S Gilbert struggles to come up with something new to write about. Each man, in a sense, is longing for individual acclaim but they are trapped in an entity neither one can shake. The fame of their collective energies has taken on a life of its own and the theater crowds want more.

Director Mike Leigh

Writer Mike Leigh

Stars: Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher, Lesley Manville, Timothy Spall, Kevin McKidd, Andy Serkis.

Won 2 Oscars: Best Costume Design, Best Makeup.

Mike Leigh was so frustrated with the continued relegation of his movies to art house cinemas instead of wide release that he joked that he would have cast Arnold Schwarzenegger as both Gilbert and Sullivan if his budget had permitted it.

There are three Shakespearean quotes. The first is a line from Macbeth Act III, Scene 3 "O horror, horror, horror!...", spoken by Gilbert at breakfast in relation to the prospects for an extended run for 'Princess Ida'. The second is from Othello, Act I, Scene 1 : "What a full fortune does the thick-lips owe,/ If he can carry 't thus!" , spoken at the restaurant when discussing General Gordon's death at Khartoum. The third is also from Macbeth, Act II, Scene 2 : "A little water clears us of this deed," spoken by Helen Lenoir when comforting Rutland Barrington, who was ill from eating oysters. That quote from Macbeth Act 3 is also said by Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now.

Blocked in some countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.

Subtitles in English, Português, Español.

Topsy Turvy mostra a famosa dupla Gilbert & Sullivan (Jim Broadbent e Allan Corduner) no meio de um período turbulento da parceria deles. Gilbert & Sullivan até é citada pelo Capitão Picard em episódio de Star Trek Nova Geração. Desesperado por ser levado mais a sério como compositor, Arthur Sullivan tenta renegar o contrato que a dupla tem com o Teatro Savoy. Enquanto seu parceiro William Gilbert luta para conseguir algo novo para escrever. Cada um está esperando uma aclamação individual, mas eles estão presos em uma entidade que não conseguem mudar. A fama deles tomou vida própria e o teatro quer mais. A expressão Topsy-Turvy quer dizer de cabeça para baixo ou em desordem.

Esse filme foi publicado aqui no blog em dezembro de 2021, mas o YouTube removeu meu canal. Agora está publicado em outro canal conforme link abaixo.

Legendas em Inglês, Português e Espanhol.

Filme ganhou dois Oscars e um BAFTA.

LINK: https://youtu.be/QH4IMHTAyic

Who´s Who, by Mike Leigh (1979)

Slice-of-life look at class divisions among employees of a brokerage house. Alan, with his portrait of the Queen and love of the peerage; his wife April, who raises cats; youthful and pretentious friends Nigel, Giles, and Anthony, who gather for a wine-soaked dinner party with the chatty and risque Samantha and the mousy Caroline; the plummy Lord and Lady Crouchurst, in a spot of bother needing the help of Francis, a senior partner, to assist with the family’s cash flow. Alan comes home from work to find Mr. Shakespeare doing a photo shoot of one of April’s cats and a wealthy stranger, Miss Hunt, waiting to purchase one. His instincts for sycophantic palaver kick in.

Stars:Richard Kane Joolia Cappleman Phil Davis Simon Chandler Felicity Dean Adam Norton Graham Seed Catherine Hall Geraldine James Sam Kelly Jeffry Wickham Souad Faress David Neville Richenda Carey Lavinia Bertram Francesca Martin Angela Curran Roger Hammond.

Subtitles only in English.

This is a movie by the celebrated director Mike Leigh and is not even listed on the IMDd database.

Watch the film here: https://youtu.be/fpX64RbYCbc

Meantime, de Mike Leigh (1983)

Filme feito por Mike Leigh para a TV Britânica. Não teve título em português.

Colin (Tim Roth) está desempregado e parece ter uma certa deficiência mental. Seu pai, Frank, também está desempregado e são todos que ele conhece. Apenas sua mãe, Mavis, trabalha na família. Seu irmão Mark (Phil Daniels) e seu amigo skinhead Coxy (Gary Oldman) estão nem aí. Eles vivem uma vida sem esperança, sem futuro da classe operária desempregada de Londres. A irmã de Mavis, Barbara, oferece um trabalho a Colin na sua casa, o que complica ainda mais as relações na família.

É mais um filme de Mike Leigh (já postamos outros no meu canal do YouTube). E direto em seu assunto predileto, a classe média baixa inglesa.

Com Alfred Molina como John, Marion Bailey como Barbara, Tim Roth como Colin, Phil Daniels como Mark e Gary Oldman como Coxy.

Veja o filme no link abaixo, apenas com legendas em inglês.

https://youtu.be/Y4Pcei-yUTU