Here is a preview of our interview with Peterloo hair & makeup designer Christine Blundell from our new ebook Peterloo in Process: A Mike Leigh Collaboration. To find out more and to purchase the book, click here. In our interview with Mike Leigh on Peterloo, he stated, “Ideally, you have no makeup, but that’s alright […]
Book Excerpts: Peterloo in Process: A Mike Leigh Collaboration
Here you will find excerpts from the Mike Leigh book Peterloo in Process: A Mike Leigh Collaboration. This is the first book ever written to give a 360-degree look at Mike Leigh's process through interviews with his collaborators in front of and behind the camera, as well as the man himself.
The book excerpts from Peterloo in Process: A Mike Leigh Collaboration, include previews of our interviews with Mike Leigh, cinematographer Dick Pope, costume designer Jacqueline Durran, production designer Suzie Davies, makeup and hair designer Christine Blundell, and editor Jon Gregory. You will also find the book's foreword.
While the book uses Peterloo as a case study to understand how Mike Leigh works, the book touches on many of Leigh's films and his ongoing collaborations. It's a how to guide for How to Make a Mike Leigh Film.
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"One of the finest film-related texts of 2019 was the Seventh Row team’s analysis of Mike Leigh’s Peterloo…edited by two of the smartest, most readable writers on film art, Orla Smith and Alex Heeney"
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Jacqueline Durran on why period costumes can never be ‘pure’
Oscar winning costume designer Jacqueline Durran discusses her longstanding collaboration with Mike Leigh and her approach to designing period costumes for hundreds of characters in Peterloo.
Mike Leigh interview from Peterloo in Process: An excerpt
Here is a preview of our interview with director Mike Leigh on Peterloo, from our new ebook Peterloo in Process: A Mike Leigh Collaboration. To find out more and to purchase the book, click here. To read a review of the book, click here. After falling in love with Peterloo at the Toronto International Film […]
Peterloo in process: A Mike Leigh collaboration Foreword
Take a sneak peak at our forthcoming ebook on Mike Leigh and his collaborators, Peterloo in process, with a look at the foreword to the book.
Jon Gregory Interview: Editing a Mike Leigh film
Jon Gregory discusses the challenge of editing battle scenes in Peterloo and what he has learned from decades of working with Mike Leigh.
Production designer Suzie Davies on Mike Leigh and ‘actors surgeries’
Production designer Suzie Davies discusses how her production design plays into Mike Leigh’s rehearsal process with what she calls ‘actors surgeries.’