The Raindance Film Festival is to present its inaugural Auteur Award to the veteran British director Ken Loach. He’ll be presented with the honour at an event at the festival on 29th September, at which the organisers say he’ll discuss “his career, films, the ever-changing film industry and what he may have in store for […]
The BFI is to bestow its highest honour, a Fellowship, on the acclaimed British artist and director, Steve McQueen. McQueen rose to prominence when he won the Turner Prize for modern art in 1999, with a short film that reflected on the work of Buster Keaton. But his subsequent directing career, starting with the IRA […]
The distributors Entertainment One have been good enough to offer our UK readers (sorry foreign visitors) some goodies to coincide with the upcoming release of Elvis & Nixon, as the name would suggest, the rather surprising true story of how The King met a President. M&Ms fan Elvis Presley wanted Dr Pepper drinker Richard Nixon […]
The British director Ken Loach has won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival for the second time. Ten years after winning the Palme d’Or for his story of Irish nationalism, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, the jury – this year led by the Mad Max director George Miller – chose I, Daniel […]
The Cannes Film Festival has picked one of its most regular visitors – and one of the most prolific directors – to open this year’s event, with Woody Allen returning to take centre stage on the first night for a record third time. His 1930s depiction of Hollywood, Cafe Society, will be shown out of […]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens won the most awards at the Empire Awards, being honoured as the Best Sci-Fi, for its visual effects, for director JJ Abrams and for its lead actors John Boyega and Daisy Ridley, who took the best male and female newcomer awards. But regarded as the top awards of the night, […]
At an Oscars ceremony where there was as much talk about who was not nominated as about who was, there were a number of big surprises, not least in the top category. Spotlight was a surprise Best Picture Oscar winner Spotlight, about the Boston journalists who exposed the scale of child sex abuse within the Catholic […]
We’re sorry to have to say that from 2016, we’re having to make some changes to UK Screen, because of staffing, resources and finances. 1. Initially, the site will still be updated with new reviews but there will be fewer news articles and features added. 2. The database will continue to operate as now, but […]
Danny Boyle is to close the London Film Festival for the third time, with his eponymous biopic of the Apple founder, Steve Jobs. The British director has previously had the honour with Slumdog Millionaire in 2008 and 127 hours two years later – both films featuring prominently at the Oscars, four months later. Based on […]
The starting gun has been fired on the 2016 film awards season, with the announcement of the line-ups of two of the most prestigious festivals. The overlapping events in Venice and Toronto are often used as launch-pads for films that distributors hope will feature among the nominees for awards from the Golden Globes to the […]
