A new season at the BFI celebrates Contemporary Films and its founder Charles Cooper, who bet on Britain taking to Ingmar Bergman, Yasujiro Ozu, Stayajjit Ray – and a young Mike Leigh Occasionally, vital pieces of the cultural jigsaw disappear without anyone really noticing. This, sadly, was the...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/01/mike-leigh-contemporary-films-charles-cooper-bfi)