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A captivating love story in Bright Star

06.11.09

Jane Campion's Bright Star is full of confidence about its artistic vision and genuinely poetic, says Andrew O'Hagan... more

Bright Star is a touching tale of Keats' brief love

19.10.09

Though by no means old-fashioned and in some ways thoroughly modern, Bright Star is a telling of a tragic story that doesn't play too many tricks with history... more

British movie heaven - the Brit flicks heading our way

18.09.09

John Lennon, Charles Darwin, John Keats and Heath Ledger are all coming soon in a bumper crop of homegrown releases... more

Hot tickets: The London Film Festival

17.09.09

The first wave of the BFI's ever-complicated booking system opens for next month's London Film Festival, which has one of its best-ever line-ups... more

Is a New Women's Cinema emerging?

17.07.09

Female film-makers are making a big impact at the movies. Does this mean, asks Courtney Hunt, director of Oscar-nominated Frozen River, that we are seeing a New Women's Cinema emerge?... more

Jane Campion makes Bright Star a thing of beauty

15.05.09

Jane Campion has made a beautiful film out of the sad story of John Keats�s hopeless romance with Fanny Brawne.... more

Casualty of war

24.04.08

Boys Don't Cry director Kimberly Peirce suggests that war affects even good soldiers badly on their return home in her latest film, Stop-Loss.... more

Queen of the screen

01.11.07

Cate Blanchett is the perfect Elizabeth I in a beautiful-looking sequel. But seeing isn't always believing as regards the history.... more

Blanchett rules the big screen

11.09.07

Cate Blanchett could well be competing with herself come the awards season, thanks to a bravura performance in Elizabeth.... more

Heaven, Hell and heroin

02.11.06

Australian film Candy stars Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish as young artists and lovers who can't leave heroin alone.... more

An unbelievable year in Provence

26.10.06

Ridley Scott directs Russell Crowe in A Good Year, a film that leaves the viewer feeling that it would be fun to leave the real world behind and bask in wine, food and women in Provence.... more

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