March 19, 2013 (XXVI:9) Mike Leigh, NAKED (1994, 131 Min.)
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March 19, 2013 (XXVI:9) Mike Leigh, NAKED (1994, 131 min.) Best Director (Leigh), Best Actor (Thewliss), Cannes 1993 Directed and written by Mike Leigh Written by Mike Leigh Produced by Simon Channing Williams Original Music by Andrew Dickson Cinematography by Dick Pope Edited by Jon Gregory Production Design by Alison Chitty Art Direction by Eve Stewart Costume Design by Lindy Hemming Steadicam operator: Andy Shuttleworth Music coordinator: Step Parikian David Thewlis…Johnny Lesley Sharp…Louise Clancy Jump, 2010 Another Year, 2008 Happy-Go-Lucky, 2004 Vera Katrin Cartlidge…Sophie Drake, 2002 All or Nothing, 1999 Topsy-Turvy, 1997 Career Girls, Greg Cruttwell…Jeremy G. Smart 1996 Secrets & Lies, 1993 Naked, 1992 “A Sense of History”, Claire Skinner…Sandra 1990 Life Is Sweet, 1988 “The Short & Curlies”, 1988 High Hopes, Peter Wight…Brian 1985 “Four Days in July”, 1984 “Meantime”, 1982 “Five-Minute Ewen Bremner…Archie Films”, 1973-1982 “Play for Today” (6 episodes), 1980 BBC2 Susan Vidler…Maggie “Playhouse”, 1975-1976 “Second City Firsts”, 1973 “Scene”, and Deborah MacLaren…Woman in Window 1971 Bleak Moments/ Gina McKee…Cafe Girl Carolina Giammetta…Masseuse ANDREW DICKSON 1945, Isleworth, London, England) has 8 film Elizabeth Berrington…Giselle composition credits: 2004 Vera Drake, 2002 All or Nothing, 1996 Darren Tunstall…Poster Man Secrets & Lies, 1995 Someone Else's America, 1994 Oublie-moi, Robert Putt...Chauffeur 1993 Naked, 1988 High Hopes, and 1984 “Meantime.” Lynda Rooke…Victim Angela Curran...Car Owner DICK POPE (1947, Bromley, Kent, England) has 52 Peter Whitman...Mr. Halpern cinematographer credits, some of which are 2011 Bernie, 2011 Jo Abercrombie...Woman in Street Thin Ice, 2010 Another Year, 2008 Me and Orson Welles, 2008 Elaine Britten...Girl in Porsche with Jeremy Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, 2008 Happy-Go-Lucky, David Foxxe ...Tea Bar Owner 2007 Honeydripper, 2006 Man of the Yeas, 2006 The Illusionist, Mike Avenall...Man at Tea Bar 2006 Bringing Balanchine Back, 2005 Friday Night Shirt, 2002 Toby Jones...Man at Tea Bar Nicholas Nickleby, 2002 All or Nothing, 2001 Thirteen Sandra Voe...Bag Lady Conversations About One Thing, 2000 The Way of the Gun, 1999 Topsy-Turvy, 1999 The Debt Collector, 1997 Swept from the Sea, MIKE LEIGH (February 20, 1943, Salford, Greater Manchester, 1997 Career Girls, 1996 “Deadly Voyage”, 1996 Secrets & Lies, England) has directed 21 films and TV programs: 2012 A Running 1995 “The Great Kandinsky”, 1995 Nothing Personal, 1995 An Leigh—NAKED—2 Awfully Big Adventure, 1994 The Air Up There, 1993 Naked, 1990 CLAIRE SKINNER… Sandra (b. Claire L. Skinner, 1965, Hemel Life Is Sweet, 1990 Dark City, 1983 Alan Bush: A Life Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England) has 55 acting credits, some of (documentary), 1980 Women in Rock (documentary), and 1975- which are 2007-2012 “Outnumbered” (28 episodes), 2011 “Doctor 1978 “World in Action” (8 episodes). Who”, 2011 Eliminate: Archie Cookson, 2009 “Trinity” (8 episodes), 2008 “Agatha Christie's Poirot”, 2007 “You Can DAVID THEWLIS… Johnny (b. David Wheeler, March 20, 1963, Choose Your Friends”, 2004-2006 “Life Begins” (15 episodes), Blackpool, Lancashire, England) has 73 acting credits, among 2004 “Murphy's Law”, 2003 “Trevor's World of Sport” (7 them 2013 The Zero Theorem (post-production), 2013 Red 2 (post- episodes), 2001 “Bedtime” (6 episodes), 2001 Bridget Jones's production), 2011 War Horse, 2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Diary, 1997-2000 “The Boss” (8 episodes), 1997 “A Dance to the Hallows: Part 2, 2010 London Boulevard, 2010 Harry Potter and Music of Time”, 1997 “Brass Eye”, 1995 Clockwork Mice, 1993- the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, 2009 Harry Potter and the Half- 1994 “Chef!” (7 episodes), 1993 Naked, 1992 “Woof!”, 1990 Life Blood Prince, 2007 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Is Sweet, 1989 The Rachel Papers, and1989 “Inspector Morse.” 2006 The Omen, 2005 Kingdom of Heaven, 2004 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 1998 The Big Lebowski, 1997 Seven PETER WIGHT… Brian (1950, Worthing, Sussex, England) has Years in Tibet, 1996 The Island of Dr. Moreau, 1996 James and 117 acting credits, including 2013 The Look of Love, 2012 “The the Giant Peach, 1995 Restoration, 1994 Black Beauty, 1993 Paradise” (8 episodes), 2012 “Room at the Top”, 2012 Hard Naked, 1993 The Trial, 1992 Damage, 1990 Life Is Sweet, 1989 Boiled Sweets, 2012 Best Laid Plans, 2011 Salmon Fishing in the Resurrected, 1989 “A Bit of a Do” (6 episodes), 1988 “The Short Yemen, 2011 Ghosted, 2010 Womb, 2010 Another Year, 2009 & Curlies”, 1987-1988 “Valentine Park” (9 episodes), 1988 Little “Monday Monday” (7 episodes), 2002-2008 “Heartbeat”, 2007 Dorrit, 1986 “The Singing Detective”, and 1985 “Only Fools and “Frankenstein”, 2007 Atonement, 2005 Pride & Prejudice, 2003 Horses....” The Statement, 2003 “The Second Coming”, 2003/III The Gathering, 1997 “Jane Eyre”, LESLEY SHARP… Louise Clancy (1964, 1995-1996 “Out of the Blue” (12 episodes), Liverpool, Merseyside, England) has 59 1996 Secrets & Lies, 1994 “The Return of acting credits, some of which are 2012 the Native”, 1993 Naked, 1992 “The Life “Starlings” (8 episodes), 2011-2012 “Scott and Times of Henry Pratt”, 1987 Personal & Bailey” (14 episodes), 2012 Peekaboo Services, 1980 Palm Beach, 1979 The Bitch, (short), 2011 “Shirley”, 2011 “The Shadow and 1959 Journey to the Center of the Earth. Line” (6 episodes), 2009 Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1980, 2009 “The Diary of from Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh. Edited by Anne Frank”, 2008 “Doctor Who”, 2005- Amy Raphael. faber and faber, London, 2006 “Afterlife” (14 episodes), 2001 From 2008. Hell, 2000-2002 “Clocking Off” (9 Amy Raphael: Do you remember the first episodes), 1998-2000 “Playing the Field” time you felt compelled to capture life on (14 episodes), 1997 The Full Monty, 1995 film? “Prime Suspect: The Lost Child”, 1993- 1994 “Frank Stubbs Promotes” (13 Mike Leigh: My grandpa’s funeral episodes), 1993 Naked, 1988 The Love when I was twelve. There was thick snow, Child, and 1987 Rita, Sue and Bob Too! the place was crammed with Jews, some guys were struggling downstairs with the coffin. One of them had a particularly long KATRIN CARTLIDGE… Sophie (b. Katrin Juliet Cartlidge, May nose with a drip at the end of it. I remember standing there, 15, 1961, Westminster, London, England – September 7, 2002, thinking, ‘This would make a great film.’ At the age of twelve I London, England) has 35 acting credits, among them 2002 didn’t have the vocabulary to think, ‘This is cinema!’ But that was “Surrealissimo: The Scandalous Success of Salvador Dali”, 2002 what I was experiencing. “Crime and Punishment”, 2001 From Hell, 2001 No Man's Land, Grandpa dying was a big deal for everybody. For 2001 “Sword of Honour”, 2000 The Weight of Water, 2000 Hotel reasons to do with who got what and that kind of rubbish, it caused Splendide, 1999 The Cherry Orchard, 1999 Topsy-Turvy, 1999 endless family rifts. It never personally involved me, but it was The Lost Son, 1998 Claire Dolan, 1996 Breaking the Waves, 1994 traumatic if only because I was acutely aware of what was going Look Me in the Eye, 1994 Before the Rain, 1993 Naked, 1987 Eat on. People always said I was old for my age. I was clocking the Rich, 1985 Sacred Hearts, and 1982-1988 “Brookside” (18 grown-up relationships from a very early age, and I think that’s episodes). massively important. I very clearly remember being in my parents’ flat in an old Victorian house in Manchester. we were only there GREG CRUTTWELL… Jeremy G. Smart (1962, London, till I was three: I was born in February 1943 and we moved in England) has 11 acting credits: 1997 George of the Jungle, 1996 2 1946. I certainly remember a lot of stuff from when my dada was Days in the Valley, 1995 “The Marshal”, 1994 “Murder, She in southern Africa during the war—I specifically remember him Wrote”, 1993 “Birds of a Feather”, 1993 Naked, 1985-1993 “The coming back, because he was quite late. At the end of the war all Bill”, 1993 “French and Saunders”, 1992 “Press Gang”, 1991 medical officers were shipped to Bombay, to process all the troops “Murder Most Horrid”, and 1988 “Christabel.” on their way back to the UK from the Far East. That was late 1945, early 1946. Leigh—NAKED—3 without a full number of O-levels—to try for drama school. I was AR: Were you worried your father wouldn’t come back? very young, only seventeen. By an amazing fluke I not only got ML: No. But there was a kid in another flat whose dad wasn’t into RADA, but they gave me a scholarship. It was very shocking, coming back. I didn’t know what the war was. Nobody knew what and not what my father or anyone else was expecting. In fact my anybody was doing in southern Africa. So it happened that it was old man was outraged by the whole thing. safe. RADA was a continuation, in some ways, of the My sister wasn’t born until the end of 1945, so I school experience. It was very prescriptive, very old-fashioned, set spent a lot of time playing on my own. While I’m a perfectly in its ways and mostly uncreative. But it was terrifically good news gregarious person, I’m also a loner...As a child, in the 1940s, I for me that I had that experience. On one level it kicked me off used to get sent to stay with my maternal grandparents in into the world of professional practice, but on another it left me Hertfordshire. They had moved there in 1940 after closing their questioning procedure on a daily basis.