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Following the release last year of a collection of Ozu’s ‘Student Comedies’ by the BFI, reviewed here, this week sees the release of another collection of early silent films from the Japanese master. This new set, titled ‘The Gangster Films’, includes three features, the remaining fragment of a feature and a lecture by Tony Rayns. [...]
The capital has been the home of some of the biggest names and films in the industry over the past ten days, and with the festival finally coming to a close tomorrow, the results are in for the official competition categories. Sir David Hare, Tom Hiddleston, David Yates, Sebastian Faulks, Olivia Colman, Kazuo Ishiguru, and [...]
Ostensibly, Tim Burton’s latest stop-motion animated feature Frankenweenie may not have looked like the most fitting choice to open yesterday’s 56th BFI London Film Festival, but this Disney co-production is very much a UK-led venture. It was filmed at the 3 Mills Studios in East London by a team of talented home-grown artists and primarily brought [...]
The BFI London Film Festival officially opened last night with the UK premiere of Tim Burton’s latest feature, Frankenweenie, a black and white stop-motion film destined to become something of a cult classic. With the festival now underway, the juries for the separate categories in competition have been announced, with Sir David Hare, Tom Hiddleston, [...]
Today is the day that both the press screenings and public ticket booking system goes live. If you want to book tickets to the festival, you can click right here to start booking. Our LFF coverage is already well underway and you can see all the posts relating to the 2012 LFF right here. We [...]
The line-up to the 56th London Film Festival has just been announced and you can see the list of movies coming to the greatest city in the world below. We already knew that Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie and Mike Newell’s Great Expectations would open and close the festival respectively but now we have the rest of [...]
After announcing earlier in the week that this year’s BFI London Film Festival opening night film will be Frankenweenie, they’ve now announced that the closing night film will be Mike Newell’s anticipated adaptation of Great Expectations. Newell’s adaptation will be making its world premiere the Toronto International Film Festival on 11th September, and will then [...]
Aspiring filmmakers and Nintendo 3DS lovers, take note: The BFI London Film Festival announced earlier this year that they would be partnering with Nintendo for the coming festival this October, holding a short film competition that will see the winner take their film to the London Film Festival in two months’ time. The competition, titled [...]
If you’re a UK based fan of the Master of Suspense then all this Olympics nonsense isn’t the most exciting event of your summer – the BFI’s Genius of Hitchcock season is. With restorations, special screenings, new, live soundtrack accompniament and every one of the master’s surviving films on the big screen. We’ve got our [...]
To mark the release of Nitin Sawhney’s brand new score for Alfred Hitchcock silent classic “The Lodger”, out 23rd July 2012, we’ve been given a limited edition poster marking Nitin’s one off performance with the BFI of The Lodger, with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, on Saturday 21st July. Commissioned by Network Releasing in partnership [...]
This evening, both London’s Leicester Square and BFI IMAX in Waterloo saw the premiere of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises. While Leicester Square had most of the cast present, our roving reporters were at the IMAX in the form of Ben Mortimer on interviewing duties and Colin Hart behind the camera. What we didn’t [...]
We wouldn’t normally put up reports about pre-booking takings but this number is rather staggering and could be the first of many records broken as the BFI have just sent over the press release (below) stating that The Dark Knight Rises has smashed their record for advanced sales at Waterloo IMAX. Watch The Dark Knight [...]
This morning the BFI announced that the 56th London Film Festival will be of a shorter duration that usual but will encompass more of the capital’s cinemas. The festival will run from the 10th to the 21st of October and the reduction of days in the festival (2011′s festival ran from the 12th to the [...]
The ever-enigmatic and brilliant pairing of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie will be reuniting once more! The duo have been working together for decades, starring not only alongside each other in Blackadder, but bringing us their own programmes in the form of A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1987-1995) and Jeeves and Wooster (1990-1993). Fry [...]
Ridley Scott’s highly anticipated return to the sci-fi genre this year with Prometheus is set to take the summer box office by storm. Released at the start of June – going head-to-head with Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman – Scott’s film has already been breaking records* a month in advance, with ticket pre-sales at [...]
Continuing their great work the BFI are basically fulfilling a lifetime’s wish of mine and showing all surviving works of Alfred Hitchcock on the big screen over a three month Hitchapolooza in London and around the UK. Things kick off in June and among the various events someone, in a moment of mad genius, has [...]
2011 was such a good year for film, and the British Film Institute have released the year’s final tally at the box office that reflect just how good a year it was. The figures show an increase of 5% from 2010, taking a total of £1.04bn., marking the first time the UK box office has [...]
Those who follow me on Twitter will know I have no love for the current UK government. In fact, I can’t stand almost everyone involved with it, so bare with me while I spit the following sentence through gritted teeth: The new policy announced by David Cameron on Wednesday – to invest Lottery money in [...]
Ahead of next week’s publication of Lord Smith’s review on the state and future of the British film industry David Cameron visited Pinewood Studios today to deliver a speech setting out his thoughts on the aims of the industry. The choice of Pinewood was well made. The studio, which is already two projects into its [...]
The 55th BFI London Film Festival opens tonight with 360, Fernando Meirelles’ latest film and it is a suitably globe-trotting film for a festival whose programme is similarly drawn from all around the world. Our review of the film will be up on the site later tonight, but if you want to hear what Meirelles, [...]