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July 15, 2011 at 7:34 am  Mike Leigh    According to the on-
screen credits that introduce Mike Leigh’s latest movie Another
Year (available on DVD), the backers included agencies of the
British government, including the national lottery. So…not only
do the Brits have excellent and free healthcare, but their
government provides money for cutting edge artists (be still my
heart) to make major motion pictures about people so real that
Marcia and I have been talking about Another Year for days on
end, as if the characters in the movie actually came here and
spent several days with us, getting drunk and driving us batty
with all their imperfections and beauties and sorrows and
strengths and frailties attendant to being human, as opposed to
being cartoon characters.  The Sunday following our viewing of
Another Year, I leafed through the Pink section (movies, music,
theater, dance) and Insight