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LFF 2008: Day 16

by Ambrose Heron on 30/10/2008

Today is the final day of this year’s London Film Festival and earlier this morning I saw Slumdog Millionaire, which is tonight’s closing film. Directed by Danny Boyle, it is the story of a streetkid from Mumbai who goes on the Hindi version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? I spoke to Danny last year and he told me [...]

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LFF 2008: Day 10

by Ambrose Heron on 25/10/2008

Today was more of a quiet day in which I finally caught up with a film that had been eluding me for about a week.  It is a French drama called The Class which I was meant to see last Saturday when it had a press screening before it had it’s gala screening in the evening.  [...]

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LFF 2008: Day 9

by Ambrose Heron on 24/10/2008

Today was another busy day in which I spoke to a couple of directors with films showing at the Festival and saw another film in the evening. A combination of a cold that simply will not go away and a sore neck (I somehow managed to strain it a couple of days ago) has made [...]

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LFF 2008: Day 8

by Ambrose Heron on 23/10/2008

  Today was the day of the European premiere of W., the new Oliver Stone film about President George W. Bush. It screened as the Times Gala at the Odeon Leicester Square, The (London) Times of course being the sponsor of the London film festival. I went to the press show in the morning and [...]

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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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