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Cannes Film Festival Lineup 2009

by Ambrose Heron on 23/04/2009

The official lineup for the 2009 Cannes Film Festival was announced today at a press conference in Paris.

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Birds Eye View Film Festival 2009

by Ambrose Heron on 02/03/2009

This year’s Birds Eye View Film Festival has been announced and will run from March 5th until 13th at the BFI and ICA in London. The festival celebrates international women filmmakers and is back for a fifth time. This edition will take place over 9 days and will feature over 70 events with films from around [...]

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LFF 2008: Day 6

by Ambrose Heron on 20/10/2008

This morning I went to the press screening of Waltz With Bashir which is showing at the Centrepiece Gala on Friday. It deals with the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre and the memory of the Israeli soldiers involved in the invasion of Lebanon in the early 1980s.  Directed by Ari Folman, it examines his own experiences on that mission [...]

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Eliot Grove is the founder and director of The Raindance Film Festival, which is the UK’s largest independent film festival.  He founded it in 1993 and since then it has premiered films such as Pulp Fiction, The Blair Witch Project, Capturing the Friedmans, Memento, and Oldboy. The Raindance organisation also offers advice and support for independent filmmakers. Although based in London [...]

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Venice Film Festival 2008 – Lineup Announced

by Ambrose Heron on 29/07/2008

The official lineup for the 65th Venice Film Festival has been announced. Organised by the Venice Biennale, it will start on Wednesday 27th August and run until Friday 6th September. Here are the films showing in and out of the official competition: IN COMPETITION The Wrestler (Dir. Darren Aronofsky, USA) The Burning Plain (Dir. Guillermo [...]

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