Raindance to take place in October – “no ifs no buts”
Raindance has confidently announced the dates for the 2020 Raindance Film Festival. Raindance founder Elliot Grove says the festival will begin on 28th
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Netflix funds BFI scheme to help industry freelancers
The streaming giant Netflix has put £1m behind a relief fund, set up by the BFI and The Film and TV Charity, to
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BFI Flare film festival moves online
The BFI has moved its annual LGBTIQ+ film festival Flare online, days after the last-minute cancellation of the regular event, because of the
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Cannes scrapped for May – hopes to run in late June
The organisers of the Cannes Film Festival have announced that this year’s event cannot be held on the scheduled dates in May. The
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BFI Flare film festival latest Coronavirus casualty
The BFI has cancelled its Flare Film Festival, just two days before it was due to begin. The BFI said the “very special
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Banned Iranian director wins Berlin Golden Bear
A dissident Iranian film director, Mohammad Rasoulof, has won the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival for his drama about the death
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Dark Waters – Review
DIRECTED BY: Todd Haynes – FEATURING: Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Bill Camp, Bill Pullman, Mare Winningham, Tim Robbins, Victor Garber, William Jackson Harper
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The Invisible Man – Review
DIRECTED BY: Leigh Whannell – FEATURING: Elisabeth Moss, Aldis Hodge, Harriet Dyer, Michael Dorman, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Storm Reid
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Zog – Review
CAST: Billy Mahoney, Asha Cornelia Cluer, Benedict Hastings, Lois Glenister, Tara Harris – DIRECTED BY: Emma Kilbey – WRITTEN BY: Joe Stilgoe, Julia Donaldson
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Greed – Review
DIRECTED BY: Michael Winterbottom – FEATURING: Steve Coogan, Asa Butterfield, Asim Chaudhry, David Mitchell, Dinita Gohil, Enzo Cilenti, Isla Fisher, Manolis Emmanouel, Ollie Locke, Pearl Mackie, Shanina Shaik, Shirley Henderson, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Fry, Tim Key
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From shortage to excess? The changing face of UK film studio facilities
An American film production facility has announced its intention to invest £150m in building and running a new film studio complex just outside
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Parasite upsets Oscar’s apple cart as acting awards go to favourites
Parasite – a dark social comedy from South Korea – beat 1917 to Oscar’s top two prizes. South Korea’s social satire Parasite has
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The Farewell, Uncut Gems, The Lighthouse and Marriage Story among the big winners at the pre-Oscar independent Spirit Awards
As a film awards season nears its end, during which a lack of female directors has been one of the key talking points,
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1917 dominates BAFTAs as the acting prizes go to favourites
The First World War epic 1917 has emerged as the big success at this year’s BAFTA Film Awards, taking seven prizes on a
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood – Review
DIRECTED BY: Marielle Heller – FEATURING: Matthew Rhys, Tom Hanks, Carmen Cusack, Chris Cooper, Christine Lahti, Enrico Colantoni, Maryann Plunkett, Noah Harpster, Susan Kelechi Watson, Tammy Blanchard, Wendy Makkena
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Richard Jewell – Review
DIRECTED BY: Clint Eastwood – FEATURING: Paul Walter Hauser, Sam Rockwell, Charles Green, David Shae, Ian Gomez, Jon Hamm, Kathy Bates, Mike Pniewski, Nina Arianda, Olivia Wilde
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2019 breaks record of UK spend in film and high-end TV
Spending on film and high-end TV production in the UK reached a record of £3.62 billion in 2019, with just shy of £2
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The Personal History of David Copperfield – Review
DIRECTED BY: Armando Iannucci – FEATURING: Dev Patel, Aimée Kelly, Aneurin Barnard, Anna Maxwell Martin, Ben Whishaw, Benedict Wong, Daisy May Cooper, Darren Boyd, Gabrielle Quaye, Hugh Laurie, Morfydd Clark, Paul Whitehouse, Peter Capaldi, Rosalind Eleazar, Tilda Swinton, Victor McGuire
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Parasite surprise winner as most SAG awards fall where you’d expect
Parasite – a dark social comedy from South Korea – won the Palme d’Or. The South Korean social satire Parasite has surprised Hollywood
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Bombshell – Review
DIRECTED BY: Jay Roach – FEATURING: Charlize Theron, Margot Robbie, Nicole Kidman, Alice Eve, Allison Janney, Connie Britton, Jennifer Morrison, John Lithgow, Kate McKinnon, Liv Hewson, Madeline Zima, Malcolm McDowell, Marc Evan Jackson, Mark Duplass, Mark Moses, Richard Kind, Rob Delaney, Stephen Root
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