lff2011 – UKScreen

Tyrannosaur is the King of the BIFAs

5 December 201124 August 2012Jason Korsner Comment

With three of the top awards at the 14th British Independent Film Awards, the dark drama Tyrannosaur was the big winner of the night, at the ceremony at Old Billingsgate. It was voted the Best British Independent Film, with director [...]

LFF2011: Not everyone wants to know ghosts dont exist

10 November 201124 August 2012Jason Korsner Comment

“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. [...]

Ramsays Kevin takes top prize at LFF 2011

27 October 201124 August 2012Jason Korsner Comment

The London Film Festival has drawn to a close — with its top prize, the Star of London trophy for Best Film — beging awarded to the director Lynne Ramsay’s adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s novel, “We Need to Talk About Kevin”. The jury, chaired by the director John Madden, said the [...]

LFF2011: Ramsay puts Shriver’s Kevin on the screen

19 October 20113 September 2012Jason Korsner Comment

In 2003, the author Lionel Shriver published her study of a mother’s inability to connect with her violent child in the novel We Need to Talk about Kevin. It went on to win the Orange Prize for women’s literature.When Scottish [...]

LFF2011: Fiennes updates Shakespeares Rome in Coriolanus

18 October 201124 August 2012Jason Korsner Comment

Shakespeare is featuring big at this year’s London Film Festival – with Vanessa Redgrave appearing in two films linked to the Bard. As well as starring as Queen Elizabeth in Anonymous, which questions the very authorship of the works linked to Shakespeare, she [...]

360 to open London Film Festival 2011

25 August 201124 August 2012Jason Korsner Comment

This year’s London Film Festival will open with the European Premiere of 360 — Fernando Meirelles’ suspenseful romantic drama.360 reunites the City of God and Blindness director with Rachel Weisz, who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for his John le Carré adaptation, The Constant Gardner, which opened the LFF [...]