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 the first time. Sandwiched between two Tom Hanks films, the piracy drama Captain Phillips at the start and the Mary Poppins story Saving […]
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 of day again. Anyone eager to see the second-prize Grand Prix winner, the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davies in the UK will have […]
Anyone who’s seen last year’s Oscar-winning Life of Pi, might feel that they’ve done someone trying to survive against the odds on a life raft in the middle of the Indian Ocean. But setting a ship-wreck against the background of moving a zoo pushes some of the drama into the realms of fantasy, especially where […]
No strangers to Cannes, the Coen Brothers were back this year with their study of a talented but struggling 1960s folk singer in New York City. Inside Llewyn Davis follows the protagonist of the title over a week, as he sofa-surfs around the city, rubbing the few people who like him up the wrong way. […]
A three-hour-long film about the love between two young women has won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The Palme d’Or was awarded to French-language Blue is the Warmest Colour, directed by the Tunisian film-maker, Abdellatif Kechiche. The runner-up Grand Prix went to one of the most popular films with the critics, the […]
A Cambodian film, featuring clay figures to portray events in the country’s past for which the pictures are missing, has been chosen as the best film in the more artistic side-bar of the Cannes Film Festival. The jury, headed by the Danish director Thomas Vinterberg, chose Rithy Panh’s autobiographical The Missing Picture as the best […]
The British director Lynne Ramsay, who’s We Need To Talk About Kevin, was nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes two years ago, has been named as part of this year’s jury, presided over by Steven Spielberg. Others on the jury, that will pick this year’s winner at Cannes, include Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, who’s […]
A whole host of Cannes favourites will be back on the Croisette next month for the 66th Cannes Film Festival. After opening with Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, the festival will feature highlights from past winners and contenders in the competition. Among the most high profile films included this year are the Coen Brother’s Inside […]
A post-apartheid era police thriller, Zulu, has been picked to close the 66th Cannes Film Festival. Directed by Jérôme Salle, the film stars Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom as Cape Town cops, who get caught up in a suspenseful search. The festival organisers say Zulu combines elements of political film noir and social study. Zulu […]