The Mike Leigh Poll

Wonder what it'd be like watching Career Girls and The Souvenir back to back.

Topsy-Turvy felt so very not 1999 when it came out that its warm reception felt a little counterintuitive to the overwhelming "1999: the year that changed movies" hype out there at the time. Glad to see time has more than vindicated it (and Eyes Wide Shut, to cite another example).

Speak for yerself.

At the time of their release, I loved Career Girls and struggled to connect with Topsy Turvy, but I think the period setting of the latter may have been a barrier for college-aged me. The fact that I adored Mr. Turner 15 years later has made me want to revisit TT.

I wish more people had watched Peterloo. If it's his last film, what a bow.

I keep putting it off. Need to rectify that.

xp he's already finished another (though a few years ago he admitted he was having a lot of difficulty finding funding for another project):

https://variety.com/2024/film/global/mike-leigh-hard-truths-marianne-jean-baptiste-first-look-1235910527/

Just saw Nuts in May on Criterion or somewhere, and really enjoyed it... you could see he was already on his path

Mr. Turner has been added to the canon since the poll, what say ye?