When Marc Muller, the former artistic director of Venice of Film Festival, which attracts the brightest stars from Hollywood and beyond, took over
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Bracketed by films and fellowships for one of the industry’s most idiosyncratic couples, the new look London Film Festival is celebrating its best ever ticket sales.
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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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In 1996, British writer Christian Piers Betley wrote a vampire film called Rampage. Sixteen years later, having evolved into Dark Hearts, without a vampire in sight, it’s had its world premiere at the Raindance Film Festival in London, where it was nominated for the Best International Feature award.
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It might have been one of the wettest Cannes Film Festivals in living memory, but from from the point of view of the industry, it had to be good news – those spare moments that critics and buyers alike might have
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“It’s a vicar’s job to keep the myth of God alive – whether he exists or not isn’t the point – it’s the belief that’s important.”
This is a line writer/director Nick Murphy ended up having to cut out of his debut feature, the low budget British ghost story The Awakening.
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