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London Film Festival: The Ultimate Guide

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:05:34 GMT

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.

Contenders for the top prize at Venice Film Festival

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:00:00 GMT

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

Beauty spot: nude lips

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:35:06 GMT

Pale lipstick has been a favourite of Chelsea teens for a while now but all of a sudden grown-up girls are wearing it too

George Clooney in the wars at Venice Film Festival

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:52:26 GMT

A bandaged George Clooney arrived by speedboat at the Venice Film Festival with girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis, 30

Venice Film Festival: Nicolas Cage is just very naughty in Bad Lieutenant

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:00:00 GMT

This remake of Bad Lieutenant proves an interesting point - that the same story nugget can give rise to two utterly different films.

First review: Apocalyptic horror for arthouse in The Road

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:00:00 GMT

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

Baaria is a voyage around the director's hero father

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Venice Film Festival: Baaria, Venice Festival's opening film, is a rambling, overlong but reasonably effective three-generational Sicilian epic.

Pictured: Mickey Rourke's horrifying face after years of plastic surgery

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:33:26 GMT

The once-rugged Hollywood star, pictured arriving at the Venice film festival, was almost unrecognisable as he attempted to conceal the damage caused to his face.

Ouch! Tilda Swinton reveals a painful-looking bunion

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:36:00 GMT

Tilda Swinton revealed a painful-looking bunion on her swollen left foot.

Trout pout alert: French actress Emmanuelle Beart's over-the-top lip

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:40:29 GMT

They say with age comes wisdom. But that appears not to be the case with Mission Impossible actress Emmanuelle Beart as she stepped onto the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival with a trout pout.

Liz Hurley upstages Eva Herzigova on the red carpet as stars come out for couture king Valentino

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:50:51 GMT

Supermodel Eva Herzigova was upstaged by Elizabeth Hurley at the world premiere of Valentino: The Last Emperor at the Venice Film Festival last night.

Reunited: George Clooney shows he still has soft spot for old friend Mariella Frostrup

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:22:03 GMT

Proving that some celebrity friendships can go the distance, George Clooney warmly greeted Mariella Frostrup at the Venice Film Festival.

Daddy duty: Brad Pitt arrives in Venice with sons Maddox and Pax in tow

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:08:57 GMT

Hollywood star Brad Pitt jetted into Italy today ahead of the opening of the Venice film festival. The star made it a family affair, bringing along his two eldest sons seven-year-old Maddox and Pax, four.

007 girl Rosamund Pike cancels her wedding

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:36:21 GMT

Bond actress Rosamund Pike has suddenly cancelled her wedding to movie director Joe Wright.

George Clooney's girlfriend hits the gym to keep her man

Sat, 03 May 2008 19:14:45 GMT

It's tough dating George Clooney, as his girlfriend Sarah Larson will testify. The 28-year-old cocktail waitress has revealed she is always dieting and has taken up Pilates to compete with the female attention he receives

DVDs of the week

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:00:00 GMT

Bloodthirsty action in 300, an insight into the life of Notorious BIG and Dom Joly enjoys Happy Hour in the DVDs of the week.

Crowe in cowboy country

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:00:00 GMT

James Mangold's new version of 1957 Western 3.10 to Yuma has much to commend it, says Derek Malcolm, including good performances from Christian Bale and Russell Crowe.

Lee, Pitt and Blanchett win awards in Venice

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:37:35 GMT

Ang Lee's steamy espionage thriller Lust, Caution won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival while Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett took the acting honours.

Golden Lion goes for a Burton

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:44:12 GMT

Film director Tim Burton was honoured with the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival.

Knightley wows fans at Atonement premiere

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:42:30 GMT

Keira Knightley delighted fans at the London premiere of her new film Atonement in Leicester Square.

Bitter truths about Iraq

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:00:00 GMT

Both Paul Haggis's In the Valley of Elah and Brian De Palma's Redacted are hard-hitting American films at Venice tackling the debacle of the Iraq war.

Brad does handsomely but Affleck steals show

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:00:00 GMT

Casey Affleck's is the best performance in a movie that's frequently impressive, sometimes dull, but about as far from the other Jessie James films as it is possible to get.

Bending the rules in a cruel world

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:00:00 GMT

The Ken Loach film It's a Free World, places the leading character as exploiter rather than exploited.

Dame Helen's fears before Oscar night

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:00:22 GMT

Bookmakers William Hill have already started paying out on Dame Helen Mirren winning best actress - but the star is getting more than a little nervous.

Lifetime gong for Lynch at Venice Film Festival

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 08:22:37 GMT

Director David Lynch was given a lifetime achievement award at the Venice Film Festival - as his latest movie premiered to baffled audiences.

Banker cashes in on film fame

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:49:27 GMT

Six years ago Martin Stitt was a high-flying banker, but he gave it all up to become an impoverished movie-maker and is about to see his efforts achieve international recognition.

Lohan swaps parties for politics

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:45:01 GMT

Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan attempted to shake off her bad girl image by insisting that she is a serious actress with a keen interest in politics.

A portrait of desolation

Sun, 03 Sep 2006 23:00:00 GMT

Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron's adaptation of P D James's apocalyptic vision of the future - Children Of Men - is convincingly shot but not as effectively written says Derek Malcolm.

I'd rather study law says rising film star

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:20:01 GMT

Clare-Hope Ashitey is young, beautiful and on the brink of movie stardom. But no sooner has she made a splash at the Venice Film Festival than she is about to turn her back on it all to go to university.

Scarlett women's dark secrets

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 23:00:00 GMT

The Black Dahlia, starring Scarlett Johansson, is Brian De Palma's adaptation of James Ellroy's bestseller and shows that the director is back to something like his best.