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The Word On...Ghost Town
Friday, 31 October 2008
"The long time in coming leading role of legendary Brit writer/director/actor/ comedian Ricky Gervais, is surprisingly good, free from the shackles of slapstick, decidedly more "com than rom" and with a sweet and charming side that will get even the most cynical enchanted." - Matt Holmes, www.obsessedwithfilm.com
The man who set America straight about gay rights
Thursday, 30 October 2008
The release of a Hollywood biopic about Harvey Milk, America's first openly gay elected politician, couldnot be more timely. Guy Adams reports
Terence Davies: Merseyside and me
Monday, 27 October 2008
Terence Davies's new film, a haunting tribute to the vanished Liverpool of his youth, is this year's unexpected festival hit. He talks to Anthony Quinn
A stranger in town: How will Liverpool react to Terence Davies' latest film?
Sunday, 26 October 2008
He hates the Beatles, hasn't any time for football and left his native Liverpool 35 years ago – little wonder Terence Davies is nervous of how the locals will react to his first film about the city in two decades
Raised from the dead: Hammer returns with horror set in Irish village
Saturday, 25 October 2008
Picturesque Pettigo turned into a film set for cult movie company's gory comeback
Sympathy for the devil?
Friday, 24 October 2008
The Baader-Meinhof gang, IRA hunger-strikers, ETA and Che Guevara: terrorists or freedom fighters? At the London Film Festival, you decide. Nick Hasted reports
Debra Winger: The return of a class act
Friday, 24 October 2008
More than a decade ago, Oscar-nominated actress Debra Winger quit Hollywood. Now she's back. She tellsGaynor Flynn what she was up to...
The Diary: Pitt to star in Homer's 'Odyssey' set in space
Friday, 24 October 2008
Party of the Week: Cocktails for Woody's latest
Friday, 24 October 2008
A luminous Penelope Cruz, who had wowed the audience in a ruffled black dress at the screening of her latest film, Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona, may have gone home early and given the after-party a miss but Britain's film glitterati congregated to let their hair down nonetheless at the Sky Movies HD gala bash for the London Film Festival.
Screen Grab: Synecdoche, New York
Friday, 24 October 2008
If you're not a New Yoiker – nor, indeed, a rhetorician – there's a fair chance you won't split your sides at the pun in the title of Charlie Kaufman's (pictured) new film Synecdoche, New York. The writer behind the famously tricksy Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, has now applied his multi-layered approach to his directorial debut, released today Stateside.
Hollyweird - Herve Villechaize
Friday, 24 October 2008
The film critics of Sunset Boulevard love nothing better than a new biopic, and the planned film about Hervé Villechaize, the pint-sized actor famous for playing the Bond villain Nick Nack, should be no exception.
Observations: Who's the most greatest young British talent? You decide...
Friday, 24 October 2008
The Independent has teamed up with Vice magazine, Volvo and Yahoo! for Creative 30, a search for the UK's most promising young creatives. Hundreds of nominations were received from individuals, friends, colleagues and industry gurus alike. The shortlist of 30 has been announced, and now it's over to you to choose your favourite before 16 November.
Observations: Silents are golden
Friday, 24 October 2008
If you happen to be passing through Trafalgar Square at around 6:30pm tonight, expect a dose of the silent treatment, courtesy of Film London and one of the finest exponents of silent-film accompaniment, the composer and pianist Neil Brand. Part of the London Film Festival, London Loves is a free outdoor screening of rare documentary treasures, including footage of the capital taken more than a century ago.
The rise of the moon movie
Thursday, 23 October 2008
Last year, the documentary In the Shadow of the Moon, chronicling the Nasa moon missions, briefly docked in British cinemas and now two new lunar movies are taking viewers back into orbit.
The Terminator is back. Again. And again...
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
With another Terminator movie in the works, and a new series of The Sarah Connor Chronicles about to air on British TV, it's the franchise that can't be killed, says Guy Adams
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Anvil! The Story of Anvil, 15
An unexpectedly affecting documentary charting a year in the life of a forgotten early-Eighties Canadian heavy-metal band, during which the 50-year-olds embark on a disastrous European tour and record their self-financed 13th album.
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Gran Torino, 15
In this film about a man coming to terms with the modern world, Clint Eastwood stars as an ageing malcontent who, despite his avowed ethnic intolerance, starts to bond with his Hmong neighbours, realising that he feels closer to them than he does to his own family.
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Bronson, 18
An original and pacy portrait of Charles Bronson, a violent sociopath who has spent most of his adult life in solitary confinement. Tom Hardy gives what ought to be a career-making performance.
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The Class, 15
The winner of the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes festival is a remarkable piece of naturalistic film-making, set over the course of a school year in a racially mixed classroom of boisterous and endearing adolescents in an inner-city Paris high school.
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Not Quite Hollywood, 18
Informative and very funny documentary charting the history of Ozploitation, a forgotten strand of exploitation cinema that was concurrent with the Australian New Wave of the 1970s and 1980s, but had rather more nudity, mayhem and gore.
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