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  • Mirren Receives Lifetime Achievement Honour

    12/06/09 Dame Helen Mirren has picked up another award to add to her impressive collection - the veteran actress has received a lifetime achievement honour for her career's work.  |  The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
  • Film: Feature:Almost the best films of the '00s: orphans and personal favorites

    12/02/09 Faced with the challenge of adapting comic book writer Harvey Pekar's life and work (which in many ways are one and the same), writer-directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini smartly zero in on several anecdotes about Pekar losing his voice, literally and figuratively.  |  The A.V. Club
  • French Film Scoops Top London Award

    10/29/09 Anjelica Huston presented the inaugural Best Film Award to French prison drama A Prophet at the London Film Festival on Wednesday.  |  The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
  • 'A Prophet' takes London fest's top prize

    10/28/09 Jacques Audiard's "A Prophet" won the inaugural best film nod presented during this year's The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Wednesday evening.  |  The Hollywood Reporter
  • French prison drama 'A Prophet' wins best picture prize at London Film Festival

    10/28/09 Hard-hitting French prison drama "A Prophet" won the first best film prize at the London Film Festival on Wednesday.  |  JAM! Showbiz
  • 'Fantastic' opening to London film fest

    10/14/09 George Clooney, Jason Schwartzman, John Hurt and Bill Murray rocked up alongside the great and the good from the British film industry Wednesday to see Wes Anderson and his "Fantastic Mr. Fox" kick-start the Times BFI London Film Festival.  |  The Hollywood Reporter
  • AICN Downunder: Latauro Does MIFF #2!!

    07/31/09 To see commit suicide-by-too-many-films.  |  Ain't It Cool News
  • Álex de la Iglesia Puzzles Over "The Oxford Murders"

    06/16/09 Thanks to the questionable state of "Oxford"'s one-time American distributor ThinkFilm, the screening was one of few opportunities to see the Elijah Wood-John Hurt thriller on a U.S. big screen -- according to de la Iglesia, the film will be going direct to DVD. And while reaction from parts of the world where the film did get a theatrical release was mixed, "The Oxford Murders" is an undeniable reaffirmation of de la Iglesia's status as one of the world's most inventive filmmakers, both visually (exemplified by a particularly breathtaking tracking shot of the streets of London) and as a storyteller (demonstrated by his application of philosophy to Guillermo Martínez's literally by-the-numbers tale of a professor and a student who go after a serial killer guided by mathematics).  |  Independent Film Channel (IFC)
  • Father Geek shares some Dystopian Visions he wishes to share...

    01/24/09 After an afternoon watching my second grade grandson battle with medieval war machines followed by a great home cooked Mexican dinner and a late evening of DVD viewing at my daughter's home I returned to geek headquarters.  |  Ain't It Cool News