Snowtown’s Bunting: evil serial killer or noble vigilante?
In the mid-1990s, Elizabeth Harvey was struggling to bring up her three sons in a working-class suburb of northern Adelaide in southern Australia.
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Fiennes updates Shakespeare’s Rome in Coriolanus
Ralph Fiennes and Vanessa Redgrave arriving for the London Film Festival screening of Coriolanus Shakespeare is featuring big at this year’s London Film
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Behind the Scenes at the Golden Globes 2011
Anyone who thinks covering film awards is glamorous clearly doesn’t realise that standing outside for hours, penned in by barriers like cattle, waiting
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Strong women and a Scottish ambush – it must be Neil Marshall
Since his debut feature, Dog Soldiers, in 2002, Neil Marshall has carved somewhat of a niche for himself in the British film industry
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Getting that film in the Cannes
The big prizes at Cannes have thrown up a surprise or two, with one of the most hotly tipped films – Mike Leigh’s
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Met Film School launches Class of 2010
After sifting through more than four hundred films made as part of courses at Met Film School over the past eighteen months, the school’s director Jonny Persey settled on twelve works to showcase at BFI Southbank.
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UK Jewish Film Festival 2009: You don’t have to be Jewish – but it helps
The UK Jewish Film Festival marked its bar-mitzvah year this month – for those unfamiliar with Jewish culture, that’s its thirteenth birthday. As
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Record crowds flock to Britain’s biggest film event
The organisers of the London Film Festival say a record 124,000 people attended screenings at this year’s event, which drew to a close
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Be wary of an invite to a Dinner Party at Raindance
It’s now the stuff of legend in Australia – the story of two university students from Canberra, who – as part of a suicide pact
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London Film Festival asks “Is that your final answer?”
The 52nd London Film Festival has come to an end with a rather less glamorous premiere than in previous years. That’s not to
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British short about racial tensions up for the BAFTAs
Studying the glitz and glamour of the BAFTA nominations, the Short Film contest is easy to miss, down at the bottom, one of
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How music and commercials led to a debut feature film
Jason Korsner spoke to Amores Perros director Alejandro González Iñárritu in Los Angeles, where his film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language
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Oscar fever grips LA
It is impossible for anyone to be in Los Angeles during March and not realise that something big is coming. The Oscars bring
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