DVD: Lynda Steadman

DVD: Lynda Steadman

DVD:

Lynda Steadman

Alison Steadman, Sylvestra Le Touzel

Criterion, 2005

This movie will mess with your head
The opening scene really dictates the mood for the entire film. It shows the main character, Johnny(David Thewis), in a dark alley raping a woman. The director, Mike Leigh, simultaneously is forcing himself upon you the viewer. He smacks you in the face with this ...

Career Girls [Region 2]

Katrin Cartlidge, Lynda Steadman

Textured, Rich, and Poignant
Mike Leigh's Career Girls (1997) draws viewers out of a steady diet of inconsequential plotting and formulaic storylines. Among the more fascinating stories involve protagonists who are also antagonists to themselves and others. Young psychology student, Annie ...

Career Girls

Katrin Cartlidge, Lynda Steadman

20th Century Fox, 2005

Textured, Rich, and Poignant
Mike Leigh's Career Girls (1997) draws viewers out of a steady diet of inconsequential plotting and formulaic storylines. Among the more fascinating stories involve protagonists who are also antagonists to themselves and others. Young psychology student, Annie ...

Kay Mellor's Fat Friends: Season 1
Alison Steadman, Gaynor Faye

First Look Pictures, 2007

BAFTA-award winning British television show FAT FRIENDS revolves around a group of women who face that common 21st-century dilema--how to lose weight. The show neatly weaves in and out of their separate lives then brings them back together as they ponder over the various diets they are pursuing. Mike Leigh favorite Alison Steadman features in a ...