The Star of London award for the Best Film of the London Film Festival has gone to the Russian arctic drama, How I Ended This Summer.Despite impressive competition on the twelve-strong shortlist from higher-profile British, American and French films, Russia’s Alexei Popogrebsky took the top prize for a film that [...]

The British Board of Film Classification has reconsidered the 15 certificate it gave Colin Firth’s LFF-premiered film The King’s Speech after an appeal from the film-maker and decided that it should be a 12A.The film – directed by Tom Hooper – tells the story of how the young King George [...]

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The actor Tony Curtis has died at the age of eighty five.Tony Curtis made more than a hundred films during his career, rising to prominence in the late 1950s with lead roles in The Sweet Smell of Success and The Defiant Ones.It will perhaps be Billy Wilder’s comedy classic Some [...]

The Scottish actor and director Peter Mullan has won the top prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival with his film Neds, a coming-of-age tale , set in 1970s Glasgow.The jury, headed by Serbian director Goran Paskaljevic, awarded Mullan the Golden Shell.The film’s young star Conor McCarron won the best [...]

One of the founders of the New Wave movement in French film of the late 1950s and early 1960s, Claude Chabrol, has died. he was eighty.After working for the French film magazine Cahiers Du Cinema, Chabrol joined his fellow critics – including François Truffaut, Jean Luc Godard and Eric Rohmer [...]

Sofia Coppola has won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival for her film, Somewhere. The jury, headed by her close friend Quentin Tarantino, awarded her the Golden Lion, for the film, which is about an actor who sees the emptiness of his existence through the eyes of his [...]

The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola is being honoured with a lifetime achievement award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The seventy one year old — known for films including Apocalypse Now and The Conversation — will add the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award to five Oscars he’s [...]

The Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has defended his decision to close down the UK Film Council.Responding to appeals from industry figures – such as the actors Emily Blunt and James McAvoy, and the Oscar-winning director and actor Clint Eastwood – to keep the body in place, Mr Hunt insisted that [...]

The organisers of the London Film Festival have announced that the opening film of this year’s even will be Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go, starring Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield.The three young British stars – all now having success in Hollywood – will attend the European premiere [...]