At the UK premiere of his directorial debut Quartet, at the London Film Festival, Hollywood veteran Dustin Hoffman jokes that he always wanted to direct – it just took him 40 years to get around to it.
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Joaquin Phoenix denies dismissing the Oscars as Bullshit, but still insists that he doesn’t deserve credit for his performance in The Master. He also strenuously denies ever quitting acting or taking on rap music.
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Jacques Audiard wins Best Film at the London Film Festival Awards for the second time in the award’s four year history, as Tim Burton and partner Helena Bonham Carter are given BFI Fellowships.
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The creators of The Matrix trilogy, Andy and Lana (formerly Larry) Wachowski, are back as a brother and a sister with another attempt to unlock the mystery of our existence in a new epic, Cloud Atlas. They talk the financial hell of making the movie, the philosophy behind it and their aversion to publicity.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has unveiled a shortlist of 8 finalists for Oscar nomination in the short documentary category.The
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