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Say Hello to the New Poster for Dexter Fletcher’s Wild Bill

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It’s been a long few months since Wild Bill played to eager audiences at last year’s London Film Festival and Dexter Fletcher’s directorial debut finally makes it to the nation’s cinema screens next month. Following on from the excellent trailer this is the artwork that will compel the public to pay their hard-earned money and [...]




The First Trailer for Dexter Fletcher’s ‘Wild Bill’

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Here’s the first trailer for Dexter Fletcher’s directorial debut, Wild Bill. The movie stars Will Poulter, Liz White, Andy Serkis and Jaime Winstone. We got to see the movie at the London Film Festival and you can read our review of it here. Fletcher has been on our screens for years and became famous amongst [...]




LFF 2011: French Revolutions Programme Round Up

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To round off our coverage of the 55th BFI London Film Festival were taking a look back at one of the most prominent strands of the festival – the French Revolutions programme. One of the festival’s chief pledges is to bring the best of the world’s cinema to London and Jack Jones leads us through [...]




LFF 2011: The Artist Review

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With the release of OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies in 2006 Michel Hazanavicius and the seemingly effortlessly charismatic Jean Dujardin looked set for global domination and a real crossover into the mainstream cinema-goer’s consciousness. Outside of France OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, and the equally smart and entertaining sequel OSS 117 – Lost [...]




LFF 2011: Superheroes Review

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In the 2010 fiction film Kick-Ass the titular character comments, following his defense of an unarmed man being beaten up outside a diner, “…three assholes, laying into one guy while everybody else watches? And you wanna know what’s wrong with me?”. This apathetic attitude and the desire to do something tangible about it is really [...]




LFF 2011: Hearat Shulayim (Footnote) Review

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Rivalry in the field of Talmudic studies may not seem like the most compelling premise for a feature film but perhaps the greatest surprise in Joseph Cedar’s Footnote is that the basics of the story, embittered personal politics and family divides amongst Talmudic scholars, is by far the film’s greatest strength. At the centre of the confusion [...]




LFF 2011: Miss Bala Review

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Miss Bala opens on a static shot of a wall, a wall filled with cut out pictures of American female fashion icons – Madonna, Monroe, Audrey Hepburn – and a mirror. Reflected in the mirror we get a glimpse at our protagonist, Laura Guerrero (Stephanie Sigman), partially obscured as she busies herself around her room. The symbolic potency of this opening [...]




LFF 2011: Wild Bill Review

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The release of a inmate from prison and their subsequent reintegration into ‘regular’ society is an area that is filled with potential for interesting drama. Ulu Grosbard’s under-seen and underrated 1978 film Straight Time (based on the equally excellent book No Beast So Fierce by Edward Bunker) uses this premise to explore the way in which the released inmate’s, played by Dustin Hoffman, life is [...]




LFF 2011: Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (Ichimei) Review

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Anyone who has already seen Masaki Kobayashi’s 1962 film Harakiri, of which this film is very much a remake, will very quickly realise when watching Miike’s 2011 update that little in the story has been changed but whilst the mechanics of the story are unchanged Miike makes significant changes in the way this story is told. Hara-Kiri: Death of [...]




LFF 2011: Headhunters (Hodejegerne) Review

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Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie) is 1.68 meters tall and feels very inadequate about it. Despite working in a highly paid job, as a corporate headhunter, having a beautiful house and spending a fortune on luxury gifts for his wife, his tall wife, Diana (Synnove Macody Lund), he believes that he is not enough for her. Roger is [...]




LFF 2011:The Kid with a Bike Review

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Cyril is a restless and stern-faced child with dogged determination, played brilliantly by Thomas Doret. The current subject consuming his determined mind is the loss of his bike and the absence of his father. The two are interconnected. Cyril has been abandoned at a care home by his father (Jeremie Renier), stranded with no clue [...]




LFF 2011: Nobody Else But You (Poupoupidou) Review

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Wider aspirations dominate proceedings in Gerald Hustache-Mathieu’s frothy thriller, Nobody Else But You, both in the filmmaking and the story itself. Nobody Else But You focuses on a recently deceased character, local pin-up turned weather girl and cheese mascot Martine Langevin (Sophie Quinton). Martine adopts the stage name Candice Lecoeur, following her ‘discovery’ at a petrol [...]




LFF 2011: Dark Horse Review

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Todd Solondz’s seventh feature length film finds the writer/director swimming in familiar waters but in this blackly comic tale Solondz has crafted perhaps his most complete and restrained film since Welcome to the Dollhouse in 1995. Solondz first introduces us to protagonist Abe, a hard to like schlub played with skill and conviction by Broadway and television regular [...]




Romantic Drama 360 to Open the 55th BFI London Film Festival

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THR have just let the world know that new Romantic Drama, 360 which stars Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Jamel Debbouze, Ben Foster and Anthony Hopkins, is set to open the 55th BFI London Film Festival when it comes to town on 12th October (running to the 27th October). 360 is directed by Fernando Meirelles who [...]