High hopes
Please, all of you, don’t watch it at the same time – I don’t want YouTube to take it down – but Mike Leigh’s High Hopes was uploaded a couple of weeks ago. There are precious few movies anymore that I’ve been waiting for years to view. High Hopes is the foremost of them.
The movie features the great Mike Leigh regular, Ruth Sheen; and, even better, the great Mike Leigh occasional, Philip Davis. Young, woolly Philip Davis. Sheen and Davis star as Thatcher-era hippies.
(Leigh depicts hippies brilliantly in Nuts in May, also viewable on YouTube.)
Philip Davis is one of the world’s best actors, along with, oh, David Gulpilil, Noah Taylor, and Robert Mitchum. You may have seen him in “A Study in Pink,” the first episode of Sherlock (he plays the cab driver). He’s also in the TV show Whitechapel and Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake.
Here’s another still of him in High Hopes. See how sadly he regards the kettle.
I plan to watch this movie tomorrow, first thing after work.
The movie features the great Mike Leigh regular, Ruth Sheen; and, even better, the great Mike Leigh occasional, Philip Davis. Young, woolly Philip Davis. Sheen and Davis star as Thatcher-era hippies.
(Leigh depicts hippies brilliantly in Nuts in May, also viewable on YouTube.)
Philip Davis is one of the world’s best actors, along with, oh, David Gulpilil, Noah Taylor, and Robert Mitchum. You may have seen him in “A Study in Pink,” the first episode of Sherlock (he plays the cab driver). He’s also in the TV show Whitechapel and Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake.
Here’s another still of him in High Hopes. See how sadly he regards the kettle.
I plan to watch this movie tomorrow, first thing after work.