Mike Leigh
1) Meantime
Series
Criterion collection volume 890
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An already dysfunctional, working-class family becomes concerned when one son falls under the influence of a skinhead.
2) Mr. Turner
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
Description
Explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies.
3) Naked
Series
Criterion collection volume 307
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A charming, eloquent, and vicious drifter on the lam in London rejects those who would care for him and hurls himself into a nocturnal odyssey through the city, colliding with a succession of desperate and dispossessed people and scorching everyone in his path.
Series
Criterion collection volume 766
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (168 minutes) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert (16 unnumbered panels : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
This mesmerizing debut by the great Swedish director Jan Troell (The Emigrants, The New Land) is an epic bildungsroman and a multilayered representation of early twentieth-century Sweden. Based on a series of semi-autobiographical novels by Nobel Prize winner Eyvind Johnson, Here Is Your Life follows a working-class boy's development, from naive teenager to intellectually curious young adult, from logger to movie projectionist to politically engaged...