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The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival will take place from Wednesday 15 October through Thursday 30 October 2008.


 


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LLF Vodcast Day 16 with Danny Boyle, Freida Pinto, Anil Kapoor

LLF Vodcast Day 16 with Danny Boyle, Freida Pinto, Anil Kapoor

LLF Vodcast day 15 with Lion's Den, New Town Killers, Easy Virtue and Synecdoche New York.

LLF Vodcast day 15 with Lion's Den, New Town Killers, Easy Virtue and Synecdoche New York.

LFF Vodcast Day 14 with Gonzo, Ballast and The Brothers Bloom

LFF Vodcast with Gonzo, Ballast and The Brothers Bloom

LFF Vodcast Day 13 with Gonzo, Ballast and The Brothers Bloom

LFF Vodcast Day 13 with Gonzo, Ballast and The Brothers Bloom

Interview with Marc Fitoussi

Following an actor, writer and would-be chanteuse on their solitary quests for fame and glory, Marc Fitoussi’s La Vie d’artiste bristles with sharp observations and unpalatable truths about creative pursuit, artistic compromise and personal disappointment. La Vie d’artiste concerns a singer, an actress and a writer in pursuit of recognition. Are there any parallels with your experiences as a filmmaker? How did you come up with this story? I wrote it when I was not re...

LLF Vodcast: The Secret of Moonacre and Surprise Film The Wrestler

LLF Vodcast: The Secret of Moonacre and Surprise Film The Wrestler

Interview with Donald Mugisha

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Donald Mugisha is a founding member of Ugandan film-making collective Yes! That’s Us. Their debut feature Divizionz is a refreshingly authentic portrait of African inner city slum life, centred around a group of young friends striving to make it in the city as musicians. Donald Mugisha Could you start by talking a bit about your film-making collective Yes! That's Us - how you formed, how you work together, and how you came to make this feature? We're a guerrilla filmmak...

LLF Vodcast Day 11: Steven Soderbergh, Benicio del Toro

LLF Vodcast Day 11 Steven Soderbergh, Benicio del Toro...and more of them on the red carpet at Leicester Square

LLF Vodcast day 10 with Johnny Mad Dog, Waltz with Bashir, Shifty and Anywhere USA.

LLF Vodcast day 10 with Johnny Mad Dog, Waltz with Bashir, Shifty and Anywhere USA.

Interview with the makers of Sunshine Barry and the Disco Worms

Sunshine Barry and the Disco Worms is an enormously fun new animated film from Denmark, about an earthworm who harbours a desire to escape his dull existence and form the world's greatest disco band! We caught up with the film's director Thomas Borch Nielson, along with co-directors Tonni Zinck and Daniel Silwerfeldt. Thomas Borch Nielson Could you start by talking about the animation process used for the film? Were there any unexpected challenges? Tonni Zinck: I was i...

LLF Vodcast Day 9 with Oliver Stone

The team talk to Oliver Stone and the cast of W. at The Times Gala.

LFF Vodcast Day 8 with Colin Firth and Michael Winterbottom

The team talk to Genova director Michael Winterbottom, and the film's star Colin Firth.

Interview with Giles Borg

Equally at home filming Death in Vegas on stage or Tom Jones for a commercial, there isn’t much musically that Giles Borg hasn’t captured on film. He’s won acclaim worldwide for his short films, showing at major festivals around the globe, and now you can catch his charming feature debut. 1 2 3 4 follows bespectacled cardigan-wearer Stevie as he learns rock 'n' roll doesn't always come with the sex and drugs attached…  How has the London Film Festival been going for y...

LLF Vodcast Day 7 with Penelope Cruz, Keanu Reeves...

LFF Live Festival podcast - Day 7   The team talk to Penelope Cruz, Keanu Reeves, and Sacha Gervasi, director of Anvil! The Story of Anvil!. 

LLF Vodcast Day 6 with Atom Egoyan, Jonathan Demme, Anne Hathaway and Gwyneth Paltrow

The team talk to Atom Egoyan, Jonathan Demme, Anne Hathaway and Gwyneth Paltrow.

LLF Vodcast Day 5 with Peter Morgan, Anaud Desplechin and Steve McQueen

Frost/Nixon screenwriter Peter Morgan, A Christmas Tale director Anaud Desplechin and Steve McQueen, director of Hunger.

London Fest Live Vodcast Day 4 with Agnes Varda and "the Class"

The Class, Of Time and the City and Incendiary, plus Agnes Varda and the restoration of Cover Girl.

LFF - Incendiary

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Saturday evening saw two premiers, Sandra’s new boots (shiny, heeled, might have been a buckle) and Incendiary, Sharon Maguire’s take on Chris Cleave’s novel. The film stars Michelle Williams (with an uncanny London accent) as the Young Mother, Ewan McGregor as ambitious journalist Jasper Black and Matthew Macfadyen as chief of anti-terrorism and caravan fan, Terrance. The movie deals with the aftermath of a massive terrorist attack in London in which Williams’ husband and son are kill...

LFF - American Teen

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American Teen is Nanette Burstein’s look at American teens (obviously) through the eyes of the senior year at a high school in Warsaw, Indiana. Or possibly a mockumentary homage to John Hughes, if you belief the IMDB posts! What Burstein has either discovered, or cleverly edited to discover, is that those clichés you have seen in every teen movie since The Breakfast Club, are actually true. We have the Megan the popular bitch (with hidden darkness of her own), Colin the local basketball sta...

LFF - 1234

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The people at the LFF want you to believe that 1234 is going to be the next big cult British movie and they might be right. It contains all the elements of cool that could catapult it to Trainspotting status; largely unknown but excellent cast, fantastic soundtrack, of the moment fashion and a rock ‘n roll plot. In fact 1234 is really a rock ‘n roll movie, in which Ian Bonar forms a band with best-mate and classic simpleton drummer, Matthew Baynton, unstable/alcoholic guitarist Kieran Bew ...
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