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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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 BFI says this year’s event will use more cinemas and host more screnings than in the past.
Although, running from the 10th to the 21st of October, it will be slightly
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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
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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
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