Lou Thomas

Lou is Digital Production Editor of bfi.org.uk. He also writes for publications including Sight and Sound, Empire, Time Out and NME, is a member of the London Critics’ Circle and can be found on X as @London_Lou

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Mike Figgis looks back on Leaving Las Vegas: “My credit rating had gone down a lot. I was known as a troublemaker”

As Leaving Las Vegas returns three decades on, director Mike Figgis revisits the making of his bruising story of addiction, how he reinvented his career through radical low‑budget filmmaking, and his memories of working with Nicolas Cage on his Oscar-winning performance.

By Lou Thomas

Mike Figgis looks back on Leaving Las Vegas: “My credit rating had gone down a lot. I was known as a troublemaker”
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