"what could happen to her in prison, before finally telling Vera that he loves her. Vera is bailed to appear at the Old Bailey. None of Vera's employers will give her a character reference. Her solicitor thinks she will receive the minimum sentence of 18 months in jail; the judge sentences her to two and a half years imprisonment ""as a deterrent to others."" This affects all the people who previously depended on Vera's kindness. While in prison, Vera meets others who have been convicted of performing illegal abortions. They discuss their sentences, until Vera tearfully leaves, to go to"
"her cell. In ""Vera Drake"", Leigh incorporated elements of his own childhood. He grew up in north Salford, Lancashire, and experienced a very ordinary but socio-economically mixed life as the son of a doctor and a midwife. In the book ""The Cinema of Mike Leigh: A Sense of the Real"", Leigh said, ""I lived in this particular kind of working-class district with some relations living in slightly leafier districts up the road. So there was always a tension, or at least a duality: those two worlds were forever colliding. So you constantly get the one world and its relationship with"
"slight lampoon."" Mister Drake's Duck Mr Drake's Duck is a 1951 British science fiction comedy film directed by Val Guest and starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Yolande Donlan, Jon Pertwee, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Reginald Beckwith. The screenplay concerns Mr Drake, a farmer, who discovers that his hens have started laying radioactive eggs. Mr. Drake (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) inherits ""Green Acres Farm"" in Sussex, in the English countryside, and moves in with his new American bride Penny (Yolande Donlan). Through a misunderstanding, Penny unexpectedly finds herself the proud owner of 60 ducks. She is further astonished when one of the ducks begins"
"Mister Drake's Duck Mr Drake's Duck is a 1951 British science fiction comedy film directed by Val Guest and starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Yolande Donlan, Jon Pertwee, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Reginald Beckwith. The screenplay concerns Mr Drake, a farmer, who discovers that his hens have started laying radioactive eggs. Mr. Drake (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) inherits ""Green Acres Farm"" in Sussex, in the English countryside, and moves in with his new American bride Penny (Yolande Donlan). Through a misunderstanding, Penny unexpectedly finds herself the proud owner of 60 ducks. She is further astonished when one of the ducks begins laying radioactive"
"(1943), ""Mildred Pierce"" (1945), and ""Life with Father"" (1947). ""The Sea Hawk"" was one of 1940's biggest hits, starring Errol Flynn in the role of an adventurer in the mold of Sir Francis Drake. Flora Robson played Queen Elizabeth I, and Claude Rains acted as the Spanish ambassador, whose job it was to mislead the Queen who rightly suspected the Spanish Armada was about to attempt to invade England. Some critics felt the story was equivalent to actual events then taking place in Europe, describing it as a ""thinly veiled diatribe against American isolationism on World War II's brink."" Film"
"Mike Leigh Mike Leigh (born 20 February 1943) is an English writer and director of film and theatre. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) before honing his directing skills at East 15 Acting School and further at the Camberwell School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design. He began as a theatre director and playwright in the mid-1960s. In the 1970s and '80s his career moved between theatre work and making films for BBC Television, many of which were characterised by a gritty ""kitchen sink realism"" style. His well-known films include the comedy-dramas"
"the Fenians and the Irish question, it includes two love affairs as well as the latitude given by Queen Victoria to her Scottish gillie Brown and the relationship between Victoria and her subjects. It also includes the beginnings of enlightened social reform through parliamentary action, and the further extension of British world influence and of Britain's imperial power in India. And for added humour, some bureaucratic overlap and exaggerated suspicions. The Mudlark The Mudlark is a 1950 film made in Britain by 20th Century Fox. It is a fictional account of how Queen Victoria was eventually brought out of her"
"film festivals. Most notably he won the Best Director award at Cannes for ""Naked"" in 1993 and the ""Palme d'Or"" in 1996 for ""Secrets & Lies"". He won the Leone d'Oro for the best film at the International Venice Film Festival in 2004 with ""Vera Drake"". He has been nominated for the Academy Award seven times, twice each for ""Secrets & Lies"" and ""Vera Drake"" (Best Original Screenplay and Best Directing) and once for ""Topsy-Turvy"", ""Happy-Go-Lucky"", and ""Another Year"" (Best Original Screenplay only). He was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2008. Leigh was selected"
"In the 50's, the British film industry produced a number of highly successful film series, however, including the Doctor series, the St. Trinian's films and the increasingly bawdy ""Carry On"" films. John and Roy Boulting also wrote and directed a series of successful satires, including ""Private's Progress"" (1956) and ""I'm All Right, Jack"" (1959). As in the United States, in the next decade much of this talent would move into television. In the late 1950s, as the United States, the television industry has become a serious competition over the film industry. So from the early 1960s, much of the British"
"'Mac Fisheries', 'Music While You Work', football results and rationing."""" Dance Hall (1950 film) Dance Hall is a 1950 British film directed by Charles Crichton. The film was an unusual departure for Ealing Studios at the time, as it tells the story about four women and their romantic encounters from a female perspective. The story line centres on four young female factory workers who escape the monotony of their jobs by spending their evenings at the Chiswick Palais, the local dance hall, and having problems with their boyfriends or hoping to find some. The bands of Geraldo and Ted Heath"
"The Mudlark The Mudlark is a 1950 film made in Britain by 20th Century Fox. It is a fictional account of how Queen Victoria was eventually brought out of her mourning for her dead husband, Prince Albert. It was directed by Jean Negulesco, written and produced by Nunnally Johnson and based on the 1949 novel of the same name by American artillery sergeant and San Francisco newspaperman Theodore Bonnet (1908–1983). It stars Irene Dunne, Alec Guinness and Andrew Ray. ""Mudlarks"" were street children who survived by scavenging and selling what they could find on the banks of the River Thames."
"Guardian"" and ""The Observer"". Jim Clark (film editor) Jim Clark (24 May 1931 – 25 February 2016) was a British film editor with more than forty feature film credits from 1956–2008. Clark has also directed eight features and short films. Among his most recognized films are ""Midnight Cowboy"" (as creative consultant-1969), ""Marathon Man"" (1976), ""The Killing Fields"" (1984), and ""Vera Drake"" (2004). In 2011, Clark published ""Dream Repairman: Adventures in Film Editing"", which is a memoir of his career. Clark was born in 1931, and grew up in Boston, Lincolnshire. He was educated at Oundle School in Northamptonshire and founded"
"in the Mike Leigh films ""All or Nothing"" (2002) (as Jason, a thug who abuses his girlfriend) and ""Vera Drake"" (2004), in which he plays Sid, the protagonist's son. His performances for Leigh resulted in further offers of work. One of Mays's most notable early roles was in the improvised BBC drama ""Rehab"". Directed by Antonia Bird, ""Rehab"" was a drama about life inside a drug rehabilitation facility. He starred as Adam, a young heroin addict released from prison and sent directly to rehab. For his performance Mays was awarded the Best Actor award at the Palmare-Reims Television Festival in"
"Marion Bailey Marion Bailey (born 5 May 1951) is a British actress. She is best known for her work with her partner, film director Mike Leigh, including the films ""Meantime"" (1983), ""All or Nothing"" (2002), ""Vera Drake"" (2004) and ""Mr. Turner"" (2014), for which she was nominated Supporting Actress of the Year by the London Film Critics' Circle. Bailey was born in Bushey Hospital, in Bushey, to Rose (née Timberlake) and William Bailey. She grew up in Harrow, Middlesex, and attended Pinner County Grammar School. She was a member of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and trained at"
"abolish the slave trade. In time, after the 20-year campaign and many attempts to bring legislation forward, he is eventually responsible for a bill being passed through Parliament in 1807, which abolishes the slave trade in the British Empire forever. The film was shot primarily in Hull, Yorkshire. Baker's Quay, which forms part of the Parliament Docks on the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal, was used as a backdrop against which to recreate the atmosphere of the East India Docks in London circa 1780. Shooting took place during October 2005 and involved the tall ships, ""Kaskelot"", ""Earl of Pembroke"", ""Johanna Lucretia"""
"roles include performances in ""Much Ado About Nothing"" (1993), ""Deadly Advice"" (1993), ""Sense and Sensibility"" (1995) ""Twelfth Night"" (1996), ""Chicken Run"" (2000), ""Another Life"" (2001), ""Bright Young Things"" (2003), ""Nanny McPhee"" (2005), ""Freedom Writers"" (2007) and ""How About You"" (2007). Staunton shared a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Performance by a Cast in 1998 for ""Shakespeare in Love."" In 2004, she received the Best Actress honours at the European Film Awards, the BAFTAs, and the Venice Film Festival for her performance of the title role in Mike Leigh's ""Vera Drake"", which also won Best Picture. For the same role,"
"Supporter of Humanists UK. In 2014, Leigh publicly backed ""Hacked Off"" and its campaign for UK press self-regulation by ""safeguarding the press from political interference while also giving vital protection to the vulnerable."" |- ! colspan=""3"" style=""background: #DAA520;"" | Cannes Film Festival ! colspan=""3"" style=""background: #DAA520;"" | Cannes Film Festival ! colspan=""3"" style=""background: #DAA520;"" | Venice International Film Festival Mike Leigh Mike Leigh (born 20 February 1943) is an English writer and director of film and theatre. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) before honing his directing skills at East 15 Acting School and further at"
"USC School of Cinematic Arts titled ""The Piracy of Sex."" The event featured Drake and copyright enforcement activist Nate Glass and was hosted by David Lerner, Ph.D. Drake is affiliated with an organization that focuses on building homes and providing clean water to people in poverty-stricken and remote areas. She has performed charity work in Cambodia, Kenya and Tanzania. In 2012, Drake formed a 501(c)(3) non-profit to assist in domestic efforts. This is separate from her role in the adult industry and the ""jessica drake"" brand, since she does not want anyone to believe that she volunteers her time as"
"was filmed in Crich, Matlock and other Peak locations. Peak District The Peak District is an upland area in England at the southern end of the Pennines. It is mostly in northern Derbyshire, but also includes parts of Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Staffordshire, West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire. An area of great diversity, it is split into the Dark Peak, where most of the moorland is found and the geology is gritstone, and the limestone area of the White Peak. The Peak District National Park became the first national park in the United Kingdom in 1951. With its proximity to the"
"filmed performances by the Royal Ballet. During the 1950s the British photographer Cornel Lucas set up the Pool Studio at Pinewood where he photographed many of the movie stars of this era of cinema, such as Marlene Dietrich and David Niven. In 1960 John Davis announced that Rank would concentrate on bigger budgeted, internationally focused productions. In 1961 they announced a production slate of a dozen films worth £7 million. From 1959 to 1969: the company made over 500 weekly short cinema films in a series entitled ""Look At Life"", each film depicting an area of British life. From 1971"
"The ocean scenes were filmed on the English Channel; the location shooting for San Julian was at Slapton Sands in Devon. According to Darrow, the sea was rough and Michael Irving, the actor who played Leonard Vicary, became so ill he had to be hospitalized, of necessity reducing his role in the film. Darrow, Paul. ""You're Him, Aren't You?"" Great Britain: Big Finish Productions, 2006. Drake's Venture Drake's Venture is a 1980 film depiction of Francis Drake's voyage of circumnavigation. Produced by Westward Television to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the event, it nevertheless focuses on the voyage's most controversial"
"filmed and released in 1941 by British National Films with Deborah Kerr as Sally. But by then social conditions were being radically changed by the Second World War. The film was the first English made feature film to show English police wielding batons against the crowd. Love on the Dole Love on the Dole is a novel by Walter Greenwood, about working class poverty in 1930s Northern England. It has been made into both a play and a film. Walter Greenwood's novel (1933) was written during the early 1930s as a response to the crisis of unemployment, which was being"
"director Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger made ""The Red Shoes"" (1948), a film about ballet, which stood out from mainstream-genre films of the era. In 1945, David Lean directed ""Brief Encounter"", an adaptation of Noël Coward's play ""Still Life"", which observes a passionate love affair between an upper-class man and a middle-class woman amidst the social and economic issues that Britain faced at the time. In the 1950s, some of the well-known films with artistic sensibilities include ""La Strada"" (1954), a film about a young woman who is forced to go to work for a cruel and inhumane circus performer"
"hit ""Love and Affection"". Of all of the folk musicians from the Birmingham area, the one with the greatest long-term influence would be Nick Drake, who was brought up from 1952 in the commuter village of Tanworth-in-Arden – five miles outside the city's boundaries in Warwickshire – the son of the Chairman and Managing Director of the Wolseley Engineering company in Birmingham's Adderley Park. Drake completed his education at a tutorial college in Birmingham's Five Ways, from where he won a scholarship to study English literature at Cambridge. Having had a musical childhood, with a mother who wrote songs and"
"during the war. In the aftermath of the war, Coward wrote an alternative reality play, ""Peace In Our Time"", depicting an England occupied by Nazi Germany. Coward's new plays after the war were moderately successful but failed to match the popularity of his pre-war hits. ""Relative Values"" (1951) addresses the culture clash between an aristocratic English family and a Hollywood actress with matrimonial ambitions; ""South Sea Bubble"" (1951) is a political comedy set in a British colony; ""Quadrille"" (1952) is a drama about Victorian love and elopement; and ""Nude with Violin"" (1956, starring John Gielgud in London and Coward in"
"abortionist in ""Vera Drake"" (2004). He has also made numerous television appearances. More recent roles have seen him mainly cast as disreputable characters, including the mean money lender Smallweed in the BBC adaptation of ""Bleak House"" (2005), as Jeff Hope, a murderous cab driver in the first episode of ""Sherlock"" (2010), as crime family solicitor Micky Joy in ""Silk"", as Jud, the malevolent servant in ""Poldark"" (2015) and as DI Tom Piper in crime drama ""Black Work"". In 2013 he starred as the human incarnation of the devil in the 5th and final series of BBC Three's ""Being Human"". He"
"expressive freedom, since they do not know how an improvised situation will turn out. Improvisation demands an open mind in order to maintain spontaneity, rather than pre-planning a response. A character is created by the actor, often without reference to a dramatic text, and a drama is developed out of the spontenous interactions with other actors. This approach to creating new drama has been developed most substantially by the British filmmaker Mike Leigh, in films such as ""Secrets & Lies"" (1996), ""Vera Drake"" (2004), ""Another Year"" (2010), and ""Mr. Turner"" (2014). Improvisation is also used to cover up if an"
"it became one of Britain's most successful fishing ports. However, Milford Haven became less busy after World War II, although in 1950 its trawlers still landed about 5-6% of the UK's wet fish (chiefly European hake) and had the UK's fifth largest fleet. Milford Haven now acts mainly as a base for foreign-registered trawlers which export most of their catch to continental markets. The trawlers and small fishing craft bring prosperity to Milford Haven and exploit the hake-fishery of the west coast and south-west of Ireland, with herring being landed in season. Prime fish landed at the port includes common"
"is strongly linked with the sea fishing industry, which once generated wealth for the town. At its peak in the 1950s, it was the largest and busiest fishing port in the world. As a result of the Cod Wars with Iceland, this industry has been in decline for many years. In 1970 around 400 trawlers were based in the port, by 2013 only 5 trawlers remain based there. By comparison, 15 vessels are used to maintain offshore wind farms in the North Sea. The town still has the largest fish market in the UK, but most of what is sold"
"and ""Captain Carey, U.S.A."" (1950) with Ladd. In the 1950s, American producers Irving Allen and Albert R. Broccoli were making action films in the UK under their Warwick Films banner. When Broccoli signed Ladd on for a three-picture deal for Warwick, Ladd insisted on Maibaum co-writing the screenplays. Maibaum moved his family to England in order to do this. The first Warwick Film, ""The Red Beret"" (1953) was a bit hit. It was followed by ""Hell Below Zero"" (1954). He also began writing for the new medium of television, including short teleplays for ""The Kate Smith Evening Hour"", and the"
"university student involved in a murder investigation. In the 1980s, he was considered one of the ""Brit Pack"". He moved to the United States in the early 1990s, where he worked with music video producer Jake Scott, then directing TV commercials. Currently, he is working with Criterion on documentary material for the Merchant Ivory Collection. Spencer Leigh (actor) Spencer Leigh (born ""circa"" 1963) is an English TV and film actor. Born and raised in Liverpool, Lancashire, he became interested in the theatre and joined the Everyman and Playhouse Youth Theatre soon after it opened in Liverpool. Fellow theatre student David"
"Garai - ""Inside I'm Dancing"" Natalie Press - ""My Summer of Love"" London Film Critics Circle Awards 2004 The 25th London Film Critics Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2004, were announced by the London Film Critics Circle on 9 February 2005. ""Sideways"" ""Vera Drake"" ""The Motorcycle Diaries"" • Argentina Martin Scorsese - ""The Aviator"" Mike Leigh - ""Vera Drake"" Charlie Kaufman - ""Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"" Mike Leigh - ""Vera Drake"" Jamie Foxx - ""Ray"" Imelda Staunton - ""Vera Drake"" Daniel Craig - ""Enduring Love"" Eva Birthistle - ""Ae Fond Kiss..."" <br> Kate Winslet -"
"and then Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). At university, along with acting she directed ""Murder in the Cathedral"" in Durham Cathedral and wrote and performed comedy in The Durham Revue. Following her graduation from RADA in 1999 she worked in rep at The Royal Exchange, Manchester, York Theatre Royal, Sheffield Crucible and for the BBC in both television and radio. In 2002 she was cast as Agatha in Stephen Fry's film ""Bright Young Things"" for which she was nominated for multiple awards. She subsequently went on to work with Mike Leigh in ""Vera Drake"" and ""Mr. Turner"", Conor McPherson"