Naked OTTID:461082
Naked
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Directed by Mike Leigh • 1993 • United Kingdom
The brilliant and controversial Naked, from director Mike Leigh, stars David Thewlis as Johnny, a charming and eloquent but relentlessly vicious drifter. Rejecting anyone who might care for him, the volcanic Johnny hurls himself around London on a nocturnal odyssey, colliding with a succession of other desperate and dispossessed people and scorching everyone in his path. With a virtuoso script and raw performances from Thewlis and costars Katrin Cartlidge and Lesley Sharp, Leigh's depiction of England's underbelly is an amalgam of black comedy and doomsday prophecy that took the best director and best actor prizes at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
Up Next in Naked
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NAKED Commentary OTTID:463147
Recorded in 1994, this commentary features director Mike Leigh and actors David Thewlis and Katrin Cartlidge.
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Neil LaBute on NAKED OTTID:463148
The following interview with filmmaker Neil LaBute was recorded in Vancouver in 2005.
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The Short and Curlies OTTID:468397
Directed by Mike Leigh • 1987 • United Kingdom
David Thewlis and Alison Steadman star in this 1987 short comedy by Mike Leigh about a romance between a hairdresser’s daughter and a young man who communicates only through one-liners.
