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Master and pupil honoured by LFF on the same night
A visiting tutor at the National Film and Television School in Buckinghamshire has won the top prize at the London Film Festival Awards and one of his pupils has collected the award…
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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…
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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…
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Tom Hanks to bookend London Film Festival
The BFI has announced the 57th London Film Festival will close with Saving Mr Banks, the story of how Mary Poppins was brought to the big screen.
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British director Greengrass to open LFF 2013
The director best known for the Bourne Supremacy and the Bourne Ultimatum, Paul Greengrass, will be the first British director to open the London Film Festival since Andrew Macdonald had the honour…
Cinema
LFF2012: Record ticket sales for new look shorter festival
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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LFF2012: Hoffman finally gets around to directing
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…
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Audiard makes it 2 out of 4 at the LFF Awards
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…
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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…
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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…