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Record LFF ticket sales but who’ll remember 2013?

The BFI has hailed the success of Clare Stewart’s second London Film Festival at the helm, with last year’s record audience attendance being broken, with the figure passing the 150,000 mark for…

24 October 2013
News

BFI Fellowship for Sir Christopher Lee

The BFI has announced that the veteran actor Sir Christopher Lee will be awarded a Fellowship of the British Film Institute at the awards ceremony towards the end of this year’s London…

9 October 2013
Blog

LFF brings pick of the festivals to London

Coming late in the year, the London Film Festival is continuing its modest streak of bringing some of the best films of the year’s other festivals – including Sundance, Cannes, Venice and…

5 September 2013
Cinema

How Cannes helps the underdogs

With Cannes 2013 over, the festival award winners are slowly receding into the memories of those who were fortunate enough to see them, some of them possibly unlikely to see the light…

5 June 2013
Blog

BFI honours Burton and Bonham Carter

The British Film Institute has used the London Film Festival to bestow Fellowships – its highest honour – on the London-based American director Tim Burton and his long-term partner, the British actress Helena…

10 October 2012
Cinema

London Film Festival announces new look line-up

The BFI has announced the full line-up of the 56th London Film Festival, kicking off with Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie on 10th October, ending with Mike Newell’s Great Expectations on 21st October and…

5 September 2012
Review

Shadow Dancer

Director: James Marsh - Screenwriter: Tom Bradby - Starring: Andrea Riseborough, Clive Owen, Domhall Gleeson, Gillian Anderson, Bríd Brennan, Aiden Gillen, David Wilmot…

29 August 2012
News

Burton to open London Film Festival 2012

The BFI has picked Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie to open the 2012 London Film Festival. The screening, at the Odeon Leicester Square on 10th October this year, will be the European premiere of…

24 August 2012
News

Vertigo knocks Citizen Kane off critics top spot

For the first time in five decades, Citizen Kane has been toppled from the number one spot in Sight Sound magazine's ten-yearly critics' poll of the Greatest Films of All Time.

1 August 2012