Mike Leigh on Naked, Working with Actors, and His Career

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  • Опубліковано 13 січ 2025

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  • @SoZen08
    @SoZen08 Рік тому +7

    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.

  • @gentlemanjake8005
    @gentlemanjake8005 Рік тому +11

    I love how he engages the audience without being condescending or intimidating.

  • @ajnikhil
    @ajnikhil 9 місяців тому +2

    He's one of the best and underrated filmmakers ever..

  • @abcrane
    @abcrane 7 місяців тому +1

    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!

  • @johnsykes1142
    @johnsykes1142 8 місяців тому +2

    Naked...one of my favorite film.

  • @ar_jo2023
    @ar_jo2023 9 місяців тому

    First time watching a film of him. What great experienced in the theater. Raw and funny in it’s way. Thank you Mike Leigh

  • @raymondzrike
    @raymondzrike 2 роки тому +11

    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.

  • @idlewildproductions
    @idlewildproductions 2 роки тому +6

    Yes please release the Topsy Turvy Q+A!

  • @adikravets3632
    @adikravets3632 2 роки тому +5

    30:39 telling of our sad times.

    • @jamesnorth7318
      @jamesnorth7318 Рік тому

      I don't get it what was said of did I stop to early to catch it

  • @cinefile0075
    @cinefile0075 2 роки тому +5

    plz invite ken loach

  • @fatherpaulstone896
    @fatherpaulstone896 Рік тому +3

    Meantime is his best, pure masterpiece

  • @RGBEAT
    @RGBEAT 2 роки тому +10

    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.

    • @yeyehehe4278
      @yeyehehe4278 2 роки тому +3

      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.

    • @bucc2742
      @bucc2742 Рік тому +1

      @@yeyehehe4278 all of the actors wrote their own dialogue and created their own characters

    • @yeyehehe4278
      @yeyehehe4278 Рік тому +2

      @@bucc2742 that's not true

    • @bucc2742
      @bucc2742 Рік тому

      @@yeyehehe4278 I'm not going to have an argument with you. Please tell me what is actually true.

    • @yeyehehe4278
      @yeyehehe4278 Рік тому

      @@bucc2742 mike Leigh wrote them

  • @alrobvy
    @alrobvy 2 роки тому +1

  • @patrickmacdonald8465
    @patrickmacdonald8465 Рік тому +3

    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

  • @natural
    @natural 2 роки тому +1

    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

    • @seanc2061
      @seanc2061 Рік тому +5

      Naked is not so much a narrative as it is an experience

    • @_Lust_
      @_Lust_ Рік тому +9

      Naked by far his magnum opus

    • @fatherpaulstone896
      @fatherpaulstone896 Рік тому +2

      Meantime is his best

    • @_Lust_
      @_Lust_ Рік тому

      @@fatherpaulstone896 can’t go wrong with that I love meantime aswell

    • @jamescasteel8990
      @jamescasteel8990 Рік тому

      I think the films asks you to sit with it rather than search for higher structure. It’s a fairly simple film.