Reading: ‘Not just Hollywood crap’: Mike Leigh on the East End communist who brought world cinema to the UK

Oh, what a delightful little dance down memory lane! It's like finding an old pair of dancing shoes I'd forgotten I still had. I can almost taste the Earl Grey as I recall those cinematic evenings of my youth, thanks to Charles Cooper's daring bets on world cinema.

― www.theguardian.com

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/01/mike-leigh-contemporary-films-charles-cooper-bfi