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
“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.
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
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
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
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