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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

Girls on film

02.11.09
Women have helmed some first-rate films this year but still account for only three per cent of the industry’s directors, says Nick Curtis... 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

The arts should shock us out of our comfort zone

16.10.09
It's 1909 all over again. Boos rang out, shocked patrons walked out. Never mind Frieze, the most provocative art event this week is Sadler's Wells' In the Spirit of Diaghilev... 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

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

London Film Festival to play host to big-name stars

09.09.09
Hollywood stars George Clooney, Bill Murray and Meryl Streep will be among the big names to attend the London Film Festival... more

A fitting tribute to the greatest Cockney poet - John Keats

24.07.09
With Keats House, the Heritage Lottery executives have got it right and bestowed their largesse on preserving something priceless... 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

Keats casts spell on Cannes star

15.05.09
Rising star Ben Whishaw has described falling in love with the poetry of John Keats as he prepared for his new movie, a contender for the Palme d’Or prize at Cannes... 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

Teacher writes finale to Cannes in school hols

24.04.09
Goodbye Knole Park, hello the South of France. The Croisette is some distance from Sevenoaks, the Palais du Festival some way from the staff room and closing the Cannes film festival the kind of good fortune which screenwriters the world over dream about ... more

The Cannes crew

20.04.09
We won’t know who’s made it until Thursday but for now here’s our own dream line-up... more

South London sixth-former scores dream role as Spielberg's Tintin in multimillion dollar trilogy

28.03.08
A south London sixth-former has landed the role of Tintin in a major movie adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg. Thomas Sangster, 17, was chosen by the Oscar-winning director to star in his forthcoming film bringing the boy reporter of Belgian author Herge's comic books to life... more

Blue blistering Barnacles, it's the new Tintin

28.03.08
A south London sixth-former has landed the role of Tintin in a major movie adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg... more

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