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

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 LeighOccasionally, vital pieces of the cultural jigsaw disappear without anyone really noticing…