Romola Garai, Jonathan Ross, Sophie Dahl: London 2009

Romola Garai attends the World Premiere of Fantastic Mr Fox, the Opening Gala event of The 2009 Times BFI London Film Festival, at the Odeon Leicester Square on October 14.
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Jane Goldman, Jonathan Ross

Sophie Dahl, Jamie Cullum

Berlin Film Festival 2007

Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie in The Good Shepherd (top); Cate Blanchett, George Clooney in The Good German (bottom)

English-language productions dominate the Berlin Film Festival’s 2007 official competition line-up. In all, 22 films are competing for the Golden Bear and four are being screened out of competition at this year’s Berlinale, which runs between Feb. 8-18.
Most of the English-language fare hails from the United States and the United Kingdom, in addition to several American or British co-productions with other nations.
Robert De Niro’s Cold War drama The Good Shepherd and Steven Soderbergh’s post-WWII murder mystery The Good German had been announced earlier in January. Both films have big names attached to them (Matt Damon [...]