The Pitch: A dramatic retelling of the Peterloo Massacre, Mike Leigh’s Peterloo tracks the years, people, and socioeconomic conditions that lead to the tragic events of August 16, 1819 in Manchester.

For two filmmakers who have, for much of their careers, been bracketed as twin bastions of British social realism, Mike Leigh and Ken Loach have never had much in common. Where Loach has long worn his ...

Ahead of its world premiere in Venice, the visionary British director discusses his historical epic and his thoughts on Cannes, which rejected the film. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent The ...

Mike Leigh’s “Peterloo” is set to have its U.K. premiere as part of the BFI London Film Festival, but in an unusual move, the Oct. 17 gala screening will take place in the city of Manchester, where ...

The film - telling the story of the notorious Manchester massacre in 1819 – becomes the first to be premiered by the festival outside London. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent Peterloo, Mike Leigh‘s ...

Labour MP Chris Williamson certainly seems to have enjoyed Mike Leigh’s new film Peterloo, which recreates the 1819 massacre in St Peter’s Field in Manchester. Williamson, the Corbynite member for ...

UPDATE, Oct. 2: Amazon Studios is now moving Mike Leigh’s Peterloo out of the fall frame after the British historical epic played the fall film festival triad of Venice, Telluride and TIFF. The new ...

If you happened on any five-minute stretch of “Peterloo,” it might look like another finely tuned, gently probing historical film from writer-director Mike Leigh (“Vera Drake,” “Mr. Turner”). But it ...

For much of its two-and-a-half-hour running time, Mike Leigh’s period epic “Peterloo” consists mostly of people talking — about what they need in order to be seen, to be heard, and frankly just to ...

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