London Film Festival Articles
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN: Best Film at London Film Festival
Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin Lynne Ramsay's British family drama We Need to Talk About Kevin, which stars Tilda Swinton as the mother of a young mass murderer, won the Best Film Award at the 2011 BFI London Film Festival (LFF). The LFF awards ceremony was held this evening in Central London; comedian Marcus Brigstocke hosted the event. Jury chair John Madden [...]
Ralph Fiennes, David Cronenberg: BFI Fellowship 2011
Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg and British actor-turned-filmmaker Ralph Fiennes (right) will receive the 2011 British Film Institute Fellowship, a sort of Lifetime Achievement Award given by the BFI. Cronenberg and Fiennes will be handed the honor at the London Film Festival. Previous BFI Fellowship recipients include Isabelle Huppert, Michael Powell, Marcel Carné, Bette Davis, Maureen O'Hara, Orson Welles, Ousmane Sembene, Akira Kurosawa, Maggie Smith, Bernardo [...]
BFI London Film Festival 2010 Winners: HOW I ENDED THIS SUMMER, THE ARBOR, ARMADILLO
Janus Metz's Armadillo Janus Metz's ARMADILLO Wins Best Documentary at 2010 BFI London Film Festival Broadcaster and journalist Sue Perkins hosted the awards ceremony of the 54th BFI London Film Festival awards. Guests at the 2010 London Festival awards ceremony included Danny Boyle, whose 127 Hours is the festival's closing-night gala presentation, Greg Dyke, John Hurt, Joanne Froggatt, Richard Ayoade, Craig Roberts, Joanna Hogg, Sue [...]
Janus Metz's ARMADILLO Wins Best Documentary at 2010 BFI London Film Festival
Manjinder Virk as Lorraine Dunbar in Clio Barnard's The Arbor BFI London Film Festival 2010 Best Film: HOW I ENDED THIS SUMMER The 2010 BFI London Film Festival's Grierson Award for Best Documentary went to Janus Metz's Afghanistan War-set Armadillo, which became a cause célèbre in its native Denmark as it exposes the brutal, inhuman side of not only the war itself but of the [...]