‘The Artist is Part of the Class’: Mike Leigh in Conversation with Qalandar Bux Memon

Mike Leigh talks to Qalandar Bux Memon about film-language and class, film-making as an artistic process, acting, editing, and the politics of representation. Qalandar Bux Memon: So, I had a question about the… Mike Leigh: Which films of mine have you seen? QBM: I've seen... I've seen a few. I was in Lahore and I…

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Making Films about the Working-Class: Mike Leigh in Conversation with Qalandar Bux Memon. Part-I

Qalandar Bux Memon: Let’s start with your last film, Peterloo. I read it as an essay on a social movement. It wasn’t focused on a particular character, of course. There was no hero, it explained how unity was build by working-class activists across divisions to demand there rights. It focused on the movement, my first question…

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