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Who won what at Standard Film Awards

03.02.09
Irish martyrdom, Indian poverty, American politics - the judges of the Evening Standard British Film Awards faced difficult choices.... more

Is this the year Brits sweep the Oscars?

06.01.09
All hopes are on Kate Winslet, Danny Boyle and Sally Hawkins doing at the Academy Awards what Team GB did at the Olympics, says Mike Goodridge.... more

Happy-go-lucky Sally wins string of awards ahead of Golden Globes

18.12.08
The winners of the Golden Globes are yet to be named, and the Oscar nominations are still to come - but one British actress has already collected a string of awards this year.... more

Film

08.10.08
Given the financial hurricane that devasted the City last month, that 2008 is shaping up to be a good year for British film and our leading directors and actors ... more

DVDs of the week

03.06.08
You'll yearn to rewatch No Country for Old Men after the hauntingly enigmatic ending but don't expect the same from I think I Love My Wife.... more

Who’s had all the happy pills?

17.04.08
You may want to throttle her but no one can deny that Sally Hawkins's performance as the irrepressible Poppy in Mike Leigh's upbeat Happy-Go-Lucky is a tour de force.... more

DVDs of the week

15.04.08
The Mike Leigh feature Film Collection is a reminder of the writer/director's brilliance, Movin' On Up celebrates Curtis Mayfield and Enchanted brings us a modern fairytale.... more

This film is my love letter to life

03.04.08
Mike Leigh's latest, Happy-Go-Lucky, is a surprisingly sunny story of a chirpy London school teacher. It is, he says, his tribute to the resilience of the human spirit. ... more

Leigh's deft touch brings laughter to London life

12.02.08
Mike Leigh's latest movie, Happy-Go-Lucky, is a comedy that once again contains performances as memorable as those of most of his films.... more

Can you dig it?

17.05.07
Life on an allotment is like an Ealing comedy, says Valentine Low, who tends his own plot in East Acton. So what does he make of a new British film about urban gardeners, Grow Your Own?... more

Who will we fall in love with this year at Cannes?

10.05.07
There may be no Brits in competition, but there's plenty else to watch out for in the most important festival of the film calendar... more

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