The Hollywood Reporter

New York Film Fest: Mike Leigh, Timothy Spall Talk Portraying the Problematic Painter in ‘Mr. Turner’

Spall said of art critic John Ruskin: "I think Turner really liked the fact that he put him up there, but really felt he should've minded his own business" By Ashley Lee Four-time Cannes competition ...
San Antonio Current

Mike Leigh’s ‘Mr. Turner’ Captures Spirit of Famous Painter

The auteur theory suggests that a film reflects the personality and artistic vision of its director. That may be true for most great movies, but directors such as Mike Leigh understand when to ...

Painters and Painting

Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode look at the long relationship between cinema and painting - 250 years since the birth of JMW ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘Mr. Turner’: What the Critics Are Saying

Timothy Spall portrays British landscape painter J.M.W. Turner in Mike Leigh's buzzy biopic By Ashley Lee Four-time Cannes competition veteran (and 1996 Palme d’Or winner for Secrets & Lies), Leigh ...
Today

Mike Leigh film on painter Turner tipped for Cannes Palme d'Or

CANNES France (Reuters) - British director Mike Leigh says he was "terrified" at the prospect of capturing the scope and subtlety of a Turner painting in a film. But his cinematic portrait of the life ...
Rolling Stone

Mr. Turner

Mike Leigh specializes in incisive social comedy-dramas (Naked; Secrets & Lies). But in Mr. Turner, his first period film since 1999’s Topsy-Turvy tackled Gilbert and Sullivan, Leigh examines the last ...