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Week of star-gazing as festival attracts filmland's big names

21.10.11
London is gearing up for a star-studded week of film as Rebecca Hall, Romola Garai, Keira Knightley and Madonna hit the red carpet... more

London wants to see tough films for hard times

17.10.11
Six days in and the 55th London Film Festival has already yielded a fine harvest of intriguing movies. But it ain't a barrel of laughs... more

What to watch: Our critics' guide to the BFI London Film Festival

27.09.11
Booking is now open for next month's BFI London Film Festival - our critics guide you to their highlights... more

Mountie gets his movie star Emily Blunt

12.09.11
Emily Blunt was one of many Brits at this year's festival in Canada, posing with a Mountie at the premiere of her comedy Your Sister's Sister... more

Michael Fassbender praises 'beautiful, wonderful' actresses

08.09.11
He is Hollywood's hottest leading man, with two movies wowing audiences at the Venice Film Festival, and a third opening in Britain tomorrow... more

Clooney, Pinto and Knightley join glittering London Film Festival cast

07.09.11
The hottest young actors, from Freida Pinto and Rebecca Hall to Felicity Jones, are to feature along with major stars including George Clooney and Ralph Fiennes in movies premiered at the BFI London Film Festival... more

A Dangerous Method, Venice Film Festival - First Review

02.09.11
David Cronenberg's film is, despite its complicated subject matter, one of the most straightforward he has made... more

Venice Film Festival: Star attractions

26.08.11
The Venice Film Festival opens next week with the most glamorous line-up for years. Derek Malcolm previews the biggest draws... more

Once, twice, three times a miserable git in Barney's Version

28.01.11
Mordecai Richler's tragic-comic novel Barney's Version sets a few problems for any film-maker... more

Let’s get a grip: EastEnders is not real life

10.01.11
It isn’t the job of fiction to represent the world as we would like people to view it... more

Controversial book and film becomes London art exhibition

02.02.10
It was a book, then a controversial movie, and now Crash, a major new exhibition of art inspired by the dark dystopian writings of JG Ballard, will open at a London gallery ... more

Sympathy for the devil in Thirst

16.10.09
A vampire sucking the blood from a tube inserted into a coma patient is just one of the outré spectacles in Park Chan-Wook’s latest epic, Thirst... more

He was my friend, my mentor – the greatest writer London had

21.04.09
JG Ballard – Jim to those who knew him – is considered by many to be the most significant author of the past 50 years. Here, one admirer pays tribute to his foremost literary inspiration and remembers an extraordinary and gentle man... more

Pyschic Powers in Ring

30.10.08
The measured, eerie direction keeps the tension tight throughout Hideo Nakata's Ring.... more

DVDs of the week

26.02.08
Among this week's DVDs, Viggo Mortensen stars as a brutal body-disposer in Eastern Promises and Take That perform some sleepy love songs.... more

Jaws star Roy Scheider dies, aged 75

11.02.08
Roy Scheider, the American actor best known for his role as the police chief in Jaws, has died aged 75. A one-time boxer famed for his pugnacious acting style in films such as The French Connection, he died on Sunday in hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas... more

Navel-gazing in La La land

29.11.07
The cast in deliberately confusing film The Nines, change roles and swap plots in a movie that is funny ha-ha as well as funny peculiar.... more

'I want people to see what violence does'

26.10.07
Director David Cronenberg is not apologising for the extreme brutality in his controversial Russian-gangster film Eastern Promises.... more

From Russia with menace

25.10.07
David Cronenberg's portrayal of the Russian mafia in London is horrifically violent in Eastern Promises, but that serves his purpose beautifully.... more

Brick Lane star up for best actress award

24.10.07
The young star of Brick Lane is to go head to head with Dame Judi Dench for the honour of best actress in the British Independent Film awards.... more

With his dark material

22.10.07
Far from setting out to disturb, the unsettling element of David Cronenberg's films results from curiosity.... more

Redford to attend London film festival

14.09.07
Robert Redford is to bring Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep to attend the world premiere of his new thriller at the London Film Festival. ... more

Coming soon for autumn

24.08.07
After the silliness of the summer blockbusters, autumn brings a crop of films for grown-ups. See our preview here.... more

It's just a boy thing, dude

26.07.07
Transformers have always been boy-toys and this may explain why, of all the summer blockbusters, this one feels the most macho. ... more

Master of horror's underground success

20.11.06
Despite his new film, Pan's Labyrinth, being overlooked at Cannes, the Mexican director is happy to pursue his macabre muse.... more


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