Meantime Q&A | Mike Leigh in Conversation

Mike Leigh in Conversation - Part 2: Episode 1
The second half of our season of live conversations with Mike Leigh and Gary Yershon began with a screening and Q&A for Leigh's 1983 film Meantime.
A slow-burning depiction of economic degradation in Thatcher’s England, Mike Leigh’s Meantime is the culmination of the writer-director’s pioneering work in television. Unemployment is rampant in London’s working-class East End, where a middle-aged couple and their two sons languish in a claustrophobic council flat. As the brothers (Phil Daniels and Tim Roth) grow increasingly disaffected, Leigh punctuates the grinding boredom of their daily existence with tense encounters, including with a well-meaning aunt (Marion Bailey) who has managed to become middle-class and a blithering skinhead on the verge of psychosis (a scene-stealing Gary Oldman, in his first major role).
Recorded on 19 October 2022 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ
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[@martin-mi3cg]

The first Mike Leigh film I really got into. So incredibly real and the most brilliant character acting & dialogue. When I was at school me and my best mate knew virtually the whole script, seen it that many times 😂

[@carltaylor6452]

My favourite Leigh film: filmed largely in Hackney just a two minute walk from where I live now 🙂

[@carltaylor6452]

incidentally, if anyone knows in which pub the pub scenes were filmed, please let me know. I have never been able to find out, but I suspect I've drank in it.