BFI 52nd London Film Festival – Highlights so far
This year’s London Film Festival has reached the halfway stage, so I thought I would pause from my moviegoing to take stock of what I’ve seen to date and select some of my personal highlights. Genova...
View ArticleEdinburgh Film Festival – Away We Go kicks off the “Sundance of Europe”
The Edinburgh Film Festival, the longest continually running film festival in the world, kicks off tonight with the UK premiere of Away We Go, a darkly funny road movie comedy from Sam Mendes....
View ArticleNews Pup | 30 July 2009
With our regular News Hound barking up a different tree this week, one of her News Pups is out and about and sniffing out all the star stories. First up we have The Apparently Multi-Talented Mr Jude...
View ArticleNews Muse – We love you, Rita Hayworth!
For a moment I considered giving this blog the title ‘We love you, Gordon Brown!’. It was a very brief moment. A headline is supposed to draw the reader in, make them curious about what you’ve written,...
View ArticleLove-in at the London Film Festival opening night gala screening of Never Let...
It was a big love-in on stage at the Odeon Leicester Square last night before the screening of Never Let Me Go, the gala opening of this year’s BFI London Film Festival. First director Mark Romanek...
View ArticleWhen Boris met Mike (almost) – Last night’s Mayor’s Gala screening of Another...
I had high hopes (of course) that Mike Leigh and Boris Johnson would be together on stage for last night’s London Film Festival Mayor’s Gala screening of Another Year. What would Mike come out with?...
View ArticleLondon Film Festival Awards… and some alternatives
The London Film Festival reaches its climax tonight with the gala screening of Danny Boyle’s true-ordeal movie 127 Hours. Last night, however, was the festival’s occasion to hand out its gongs. Sue...
View ArticleTerrence Malick classic Badlands screening tonight in tribute to film...
Terrence Malick’s 1973 classic Badlands is showing at BFI Southbank tonight in a special screening in tribute to former NFT and London Film Festival programmer Ken Wlaschin, who died last year....
View Article56th BFI London Film Festival – Choice picks from this year’s lineup
This year’s BFI London Film Festival has a new head and a new look. Australian Clare Stewart has succeeded the LFF’s legendary festival director Sandra Hebron and will be up on stage on Wednesday 10th...
View Article56th BFI London Film Festival comes to a glittering (& record-breaking) close
The BFI London Film Festival came to a glittering close last night with a star-studded line-up on the red carpet and on stage at the Odeon Leicester Square for the European premiere of Great...
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