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The HeyUGuys Interview: Jake Schreier discusses his debut feature Robot & Frank

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Although Robot & Frank hits our cinema screens this week, it was last Autumn at the London Film Festival where we were given the opportunity to speak to the film’s director Jake Schreier, to discuss his fantastic debut feature film. Set in the near future, Robot & Frank tells the story of an elderly man [...]




Wadjda Review

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With over 200 films having screened at the 56th London Film Festival in October, it’s nearly impossible to say with genuine certainty what films presented were truly the cream of the entire crop.  Yet, by metaphorically placing an ear to the ground (or reading Twitter, perhaps) a picture begins to form of what underwhelmed and what [...]




HeyUGuys LFF Premiere Interviews: Robbie Coltrane, David Nicholls & more talk Great Expectations

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As the BFI 56th annual London Film festival draws to a close, it seems somewhat fitting that the closing feature is an adaptation of a novel by one of Britain’s most important literary figures of all time, in an adaptation of Charles Dickens Great Expectations, directed by Mike Newell and featuring some of the biggest names in [...]




London Film Festival Caught in the ‘Crossfire’ of Rolling Stones Documentary

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A Gala Screening and World Premiere was on the cards at the recently refurbished Leicester Square last week, as the 56th BFI London Film Festival played host to a documentary feature focusing on the birth and meteoric rise of one of the UK’s most iconic and celebrated rock bands – a group who have truly [...]




The Winners Announced for the 56th BFI London Film Festival 2012

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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 [...]




London Film Festival 2012 Awards Live Blog

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This evening sees the London Film Festival 2012 Awards ceremony. Our man Ben Mortimer is on the ground ready to live blog the entire thing. Stay tuned for updates below.




Frankenweenie (Bow) Wow’s ‘Em at the 56th London Film Festival Opening Gala

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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 [...]




London Film Festival 2012 – What We’re Looking Forward to Seeing

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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 [...]




56th London Film Festival 2012 Lineup Announced

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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 [...]




BFI Announce Great Expectations as the LFF 2012 Closing Night Film

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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 [...]




BFI Announce Frankenweenie as the LFF 2012 Opening Night Film

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The BFI have just announced that their opening film for the 2012 London Film Festival will be Tim Burton’s 3D stop-motion update of his 1984 short Frankenweenie. The film will also have a ‘simultaneous premiere’ in 30 cinemas across the country, a move recently used for the BFI’s current Hitchcock season, and a welcome addition [...]




BFI LFF & Nintendo 3DS Short Film Competition, Supported by Ridley Scott

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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 [...]




Exclusive Deleted Scene from The Awakening

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One of my favourite films from last year is out now on Blu-ray and DVD and we have an exclusive look at a deleted scene from The Awakening for you today. Nick Murphy’s film had a couple of fine lead performances from Rebecca Hall and Dominic West and along with Hammer’s recent success with The [...]




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: The Awakening Review

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The death of a young boy at a remote schoolhouse and the supposed ghostly circumstance of the incident draws the attention of Florence Cathcart, a young woman well-known for exposing fraudulent supernatural happenings, to investigate the matter and uncover the true nature of the tragic event. With The Awakening director Nick Murphy and his co-writer [...]




Writer Stephen Volk talks about The Awakening, Ghostwatch and a second Turn of the Screw

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The Awakening is a welcome return to the big screen for writer Stephen Volk, self proclaimed ‘tub-thumper’ for the horror genre and the man behind the acclaimed small screen horrorshows Afterlife and Ghostwatch. His new film (out in UK cinemas tomorrow ) was directed by Nick Murphy and is as far from the Death-by-irony gorefests [...]




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 [...]




Exclusive Interview with Evan Rachel Wood on The Ides of March

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Last week, I got to chat with writer of The The Ides of March, Beau Willimon and one of the cast members, Evan Rachel Wood about playing the role of Molly Stearns in the movie which is released tomorrow, Friday 28th October. I’ve broken the two interviews and if you missed my interview with Beau, [...]




LFF: The BFI London Film Festival 2011 Award Winners Announced

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We’ve just been sent the winners list for The BFI London Film Festival 2011 and massive congrats to We Need to Talk About Kevin director Lynne Ramsay and all her cast and crew for winning the award. I’ll just make this post about the winners but I’m sure we’ll do a reaction post imminently. So [...]