Naked

A Mike Leigh film with David Thewlis as the Manchester anti-hero/philosopher Johnny;under Leigh's direction this 25 page script, mostly improvised over a couple of months before filming began (Which I found astounding,when I first read it).Johnny has to leave Manchester in... Full review

This really is a good movie I saw it today on Adelphia on Demand for HBO and it is a nice movie and a little bit of humor in it.... Full review

First off, in Naked, David Thewlis turns in an absolutely brilliant performance as a charming, witty and homeless lout and keeps the film lively and interesting throughout. It is hard to imagine you could find too much to like about an... Full review

There are precious few movies to which I would give a perfect rating and none so difficult to justify as Naked. Indeed, when I mention the depth of my appreciation for the film most who have seen it tend to... Full review

My favourite film of all time and I don't even know why. It not only is repulsive but at the same time hysterically funny. It makes living in London a distorted pleasure as it is on my mind every day... Full review

This 1993 dramatic comedy has an erm...shall we say interesting story line. It's a bit erm...tedious at times, but David Thewlis brings it to live with his memoralbe role as main charachter Johnny.... Full review

I saw this on the Independent Film Channel and really enjoyed the way David Thewliss portrayed Johnny as someone who could be detestable but you could start to care about him. Also hear Mike Leigh talk about directing the actors.... Full review

An exercise in analyzing morality. This movie is Mike Leigh spewing forth ALL of his opinions of civilization and modern philosophy in one little movie. No character is actually likeable but most inspire pity.... Full review

An unemployed - but intelligent - social misfit goes on the run to London following a back alley rape, but finds The Capital just as desperate and alienating as his native Manchester.This is one of the hardest films I have... Full review

One of the most powerful British films of the 90s. Mike Leigh directs David Thewlis in an unrelenting, uncompromisingly cynical portrayal of self-loathing and alienation In this, Leigh's toughest, most uncompromising work for cinema, Thewlis turns in a stunningly uningratiating... Full review

From the violent opening to its brutally inconclusive, perhaps symbolic ending, Naked is like bottled rage. On the other hand, if Naked is a misogynistic metaphor for his view of contemporary English man, it is a depressing one, notwithstanding some moments of black humour. ... Full Review

A hard movie, in the sense that it's difficult and also harsh, Naked is unsettling, often extremely funny and sometimes bizarrely brilliant. But this is a decidedly disturbing premise: rape is the film's central metaphor, its most prominent and repeated image. ... Full Review

A hard movie, in the sense that it's difficult and also harsh, Naked is unsettling, often extremely funny and sometimes bizarrely brilliant. I think the great screen actors are great at reacting... ... Full Review

It's a very dark, very ugly film but one that contains such a powerful lead performance and is directed in such an interesting, if at times very simple, manner that you can't help but appreciate the skill that went into making it. The strength, power, and realism of his disturbingly natural performance carries the film and in the hands of a lesser performer, the film could very well have flopped. ... Full Review

Though the "kitchen sink" movement was short-lived, its influence remains potent in British cinema even today.....Forty years later, we meet Johnny, the protagonist of Mike Leigh´s stark, controversial "Naked" (1993)..... ... Full Review

Song-Hoon (Yang) is like a Korean version of Jonnny from Mike Leigh's Naked : prone to mindless violence, but largely silent and not very bright. ... Full Article

The first of four Time Out Platform events at the London Film Festival will take place at 8.30pm on Monday October 24 at the National Film Theatre, when TO Film Editor Dave Calhoun will be joined by Mike Leigh (director... ... Full Article

In the 1950s and 1960s, a group of British novelists and playwrights came to be identified as the "angry young men." The writers themselves were "angry young men" (though writer Shelagh Delaney was, I suppose, an "angry young woman") and... ... Full Article

Not everyone will enjoy "Naked," an uncompromising film about the war between the sexes and the bleakness of existence, with a socially dysfunctional, wandering prophet (David Thewlis) at the dark center of it all. ... Full Article

Mike Leigh, a neo-Dickensian filmmaker noted for his unsparing portraits of both Britain's working and upper classes, squeezes out his nastiest musings yet in "Naked," a study of sexual savagery powered by the mercurial performance of David Thewlis. ... Full Article

Can this be true?Diminutive director Mike Leigh reveals on the commentary that he was once employed as a night security guard."Ridiculous, really," he giggles. ... Full Article