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Lions for Lambs had its world premiere last week at the London Film Festival and I recently spoke to two of the actors in the film, Michael Pena and Andrew Garfield.

It is a political drama dealing with the current war on terror by focusing on three interconnected stories: a Senator (Tom Cruise) briefs a journalist [...]

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The Times BFI 51st London Film Festival ended last night with a screening of The Darjeeling Limited.

It is the fifth film from director Wes Anderson and stars Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman and Adrien Brody as three estranged brothers who go on a train journey through India.
Listen to our thoughts on the film (and final festival [...]

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One of the events at the festival that helps give filmmakers a foot on the industry ladder is the TCM Classic Shorts competition.

Throughout the year short films are submitted and five then get shortlisted for the prestigious prize sponsored by TCM.
Last night I went along to the NFT1 to see the five finalists and they [...]

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Director Paul Greengrass was in town tonight to accept The Variety UK Achievement in Film Award at the National Film Theatre as part of the BFI 51st London Film Festival.

He was interviewed on stage by Variety’s Middle East correspondent Ali Jaafar and they discussed his career, from his early days making documentaries at Granada, his [...]

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On today’s festival update we look at Juno, the new comedy from director Jason Reitman who scored a critical and commercial success last year with Thank You For Smoking.

Ellen Page plays a teenager (named Juno) who gets pregnant by her boyfriend (Michael Cera) and then decide to give the baby up for adoption to a [...]

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