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  • The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke said Leigh Syndrome, also known as Leigh's Disease, is a rare inherited neurometabolic disorder that affects the central nervous system.

    Breaking News: CBS News 2011

  • The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke said Leigh Syndrome, also known as Leigh's Disease, is a rare inherited neurometabolic disorder that affects the central nervous system.

    Breaking News: CBS News 2011

  • Guest of honour is Edgar Wright, who introduces a double bill: Shaun Of The Dead and Mike Leigh's Life Is Sweet, with guests and a Q&A; and there are discoveries to be made in anarchic French movie The Fairy and a secret new British comedy.

    This week's new film events 2012

  • Part of Leigh's point is that outsiders are often deaf and blind to quietly escalating suburban tragedies.

    Grief at Cottesloe, London – review | Michael Billington 2011

  • Released from her role as a lonely, middle-aged, single woman in Leigh's most recent film Another Year, Manville creates a different desolation here as Dorothy, widow of Victor – killed in the second world war.

    Othello; Grief; St Matthew Passion – review 2011

  • Cabin feverish after two days spent almost entirely indoors, we decided – somewhat masochistically – to watch the DVD of Mike Leigh's Another Year, an uplifting tale of ageing, loneliness and disappointment.

    Diary of a separation 2011

  • Dramatically, I also yearned for a hint of the ebullience shown even by crisis-ridden families in Leigh's film, Secrets and Lies, or his last play at the Cottesloe, Two Thousand Years.

    Grief at Cottesloe, London – review | Michael Billington 2011

  • Others include Australian novelist Julia Leigh's directoral debut "Sleeping Beauty," with daring actress Emily Browning "Sucker Punch" as a slumbering object of desire in an elite and curious brothel where wealthy elderly men pay to share her bed.

    Doom and Gloom, and the Cult Steve Dollar 2011

  • And, while it doesn't disappoint in its exploration of the hermetic strangeness of English family life, it lacks the richness of texture of Leigh's finest work for stage and film.

    Grief at Cottesloe, London – review | Michael Billington 2011

  • It is a career path already taken by Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who went from Mike Leigh's Secrets and Lies to the hit US television show, Without A Trace.

    Why black British actors are heading for the US 2012

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