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London Film Festival: the opening night in photos
Here are some photos from the opening night (13th October) of the 54th BFI London Film Festival in London, UK, with the world premiere of Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go . The film is a haunting tale...
Oct 24, 2010 / Alison FrankLove Like Poison: An Unusual Coming-of-Age Story
Katell Quilléveré’s Love Like Poison ( Un Poison violent ) is about a 14-year-old girl named Anna, who is spending her summer holidays at home in the countryside with her mother and bedridden...
Oct 24, 2010 / Alison FrankTabloid: The Unblinking Gaze
Tabloid is a documentary which uses interviews to investigate a case which was a source of lurid fascination to the British public in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Joyce McKinney was an American...
Oct 24, 2010 / Alison FrankThe American: A Strange Hybrid
The first three shots of Anton Corbijn’s The American are enchanting, and prepare the audience for a real treat. The film fades in on a stationary shot of a pristine snowy plain with a Norwegian...
Oct 24, 2010 / Alison FrankThe Crucial Message of Miral
Given the success of Julian Schnabel’s previous film, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), audiences will have high expectations when they go to see Miral , his most recent feature. Like The...
Oct 24, 2010 / Alison FrankThe Dark Future of Film-making in Serbia: An Interview with Petar Pasic
The London Film Festival is not just about feature films: the festival also presents a selection of short films, which are grouped into different programmes according to theme. This year’s themes...
Oct 24, 2010 / Alison FrankThe Magic Tree: When Wishes Come True Too Easily
The Magic Tree ( Magiczne Drzewo , 2009) is not really about a tree: when the film begins, the tree in question has already fallen down during a storm, and has been used to make a number of different...
Oct 24, 2010 / Alison FrankThe Tillman Story: A Tale that Needed to be Told
The name might already be familiar to you from news reports during the mid-2000s. Pat Tillman was a young American football player who chose to put his career on hold in order to join the US Army....
Oct 24, 2010 / Alison FrankRED (2010)
“ R etired, E xtremely D angerous” is the secret behind the ambiguous title of the Robert Schwentke-directed adaptation of the popular graphic novel “RED,” created by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner....
Oct 15, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongLondon Film Fest Review: ‘Never Let Me Go’ (2010)
At the London Film Festival press conference for Never Let Me Go , the most insightful comments about the film were made by, in this order, Andrew Garfield (lead male actor), Kazuo Ishiguro (who...
Oct 14, 2010 / Alison FrankWall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
Director Oliver Stone, or as he’s sometimes known, Anathema to Subtlety, isn’t shy about his left-leaning politics or his disdain for Wall Street leeches who represent a glaring inefficiency in the...
Oct 14, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongCountdown to LFF: The 54th London Film Festival
This year’s London Film Festival is fast approaching. From the 13th to the 28th of October, over 250 exciting new films from around the world will be screened in London’s West End. Keep an eye on The...
Oct 11, 2010 / Alison FrankAronofsky Has the Eye of ‘The Tiger’; Questions Swirling Over ‘Wolverine 2’
A collective stink-eye from the geek community was aimed squarely in director Darren Aronofsky’s direction when it was reported days ago that Fox had offered him the reigns of the sequel to the much...
Oct 8, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongA Look Back at TIFF 2010
The selection of films at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival was even stronger than usual. Of the 10 films I saw, only one was frankly awful, three disappointing, while the rest were...
Sep 27, 2010 / Alison FrankMachete (2010)
The permanent scowl etched into the ungodly face of Danny Trejo has helped the former San Quentin State Prison boxing champion parlay his talent for the terrible into a decorated Hollywood career....
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