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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

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

Let Me In star hopes film will put an end to vampire craze

15.10.10
Chloe Moretz joked that she hoped her performance in vampire movie Let Me In would put fans off watching any more movies or TV shows based on the creatures... more

Film version of The Road is a disaster

08.01.10
Like Mad Max on Mogadon, The Road is enraptured with its own depressiveness, coming on like the worst New Year hangover you've ever had... more

Journey to the end of the earth in The Road

18.12.09
John Hillcoat’s film of Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road is ostensibly about survival after an apocalypse, but its core theme, is really paternal love.... more

London Film Festival: The Ultimate Guide

14.10.09
The London Film Festival will bring some of Hollywood's biggest names to the capital. Here are our tips for the highlights of the two week event.... 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

Contenders for the top prize at Venice Film Festival

11.09.09
A-list stars and A-grade films have distinguished this year’s Venice festival. Lee Marshall looks at who is in the running for the big prize tomorrow... more

The ultimate Road movie

04.09.09
The long-awaited adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s disturbing story of a father and son on the run has received its world premiere. It’s been one hell of a trip, writer Joe Penhall tells Nick Roddick... more

First review: Apocalyptic horror for arthouse in The Road

03.09.09
Venice Film Festival: The Road is harrowing and beautifully composed but the film leaves nothing to the imagination.... more

Time to face the Nazi music

22.04.09
Two plays by Ronald Harwood re-examine the moral responsibility of the musicians who danced to Hitler’s tune... more

This thrift nostalgia’s just more lifestyle tat

17.04.09
Everything has changed and we face a new future. The whole culture of gratuitous consumerism no longer seems fulfilling and we can’t afford it anyway. So what do we do? Become helplessly nostalgic for the past... more

Viggo Mortensen hides from the truth in Good

16.04.09
Vicente Amorim's and John Wrathall's adaptation of CP Taylor's play, Good, is essentially a parable about human weakness.... more

Man who hid from the truth of the Third Reich

16.04.09
Vicente Amorim’s and John Wrathall’s adaptation of CP Taylor’s play is essentially a parable about human weakness.... more

No room for me at this Chatto reunion

01.04.09
One of my first jobs after leaving university was to work for the feminist publisher Carmen Callil... more

Back to old Wild West in Appaloosa

25.09.08
Ed Harris directs, co-writes and stars in this handsome, humorous tribute to the great American Western genre - Appaloosa.... more

Wizard time in Waterloo

02.05.08
With 12,000 watts of digital surround sound, the BFI Imax presents its second all-night screening of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings Trilogy. ... 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

THE OSCARS: Petra Nemcova and Sean Penn set tongues wagging as they cosy up at Elton John's A-list party

25.02.08
Glitz, glamour and gowns dominated the Oscar's red carpet, but by night's end it was a very unlikely romance that was the talk of town. Model Petra Nemcova set tongues wagging after she was spotted cosying up to Sean Penn at Elton John's A-list party. The 28-year-old arrived arm-in-arm with the 47-year-old star, who recently split up with his wife, Robin Wright Penn, after 11 years of marriage... more

THE OSCARS: Arise, Sir Daniel: Helen Mirren knights victorious Day-Lewis and Tilda Swinton seals great night for Brits

25.02.08
It was a spine tingling moment that capped an extraordinary evening for British Oscar winner Daniel-Day Lewis. Having just been announced as Best Actor in There Will Be Blood, the London-born actor was 'knighted' by last year's British success story, Dame Helen Mirren. Imitating the famous pose on stage at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre, Day-Lewis joked about her performance as the Queen, saying: 'This is the closest I'll ever come to getting a knighthood, so thank you' ... more

Will it be Daniel's day as Brits lead Oscars line-up

22.01.08
British stars Daniel Day-Lewis and Julie Christie move closer to Oscars glory after confirming predictions they would make the nominations list.... more

Why the Brits are lining up to storm Oscar night

17.01.08
Hollywood's showcase may be threatened by the writers' strike but that won't stop British talents bound for glory.... more

Craig: British film industry no charity case

29.11.07
James Bond star Daniel Craig has launched a staunch defence of the British film industry saying it needs no special pleading.... 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

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


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