http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/?service=Rss http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/guy-adams-the-dambusters-remake-has-gone-back-into-its-hangar-says-peter-jackson-1817911.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/guy-adams-the-dambusters-remake-has-gone-back-into-its-hangar-says-peter-jackson-1817911.html <p> Earlier this year, Sir David Frost announced to much fanfare that he was to executive-produce a remake of the classic WW2 movie Dambusters, in conjunction with the Director, Producer and all round film mogul Peter Jackson. </p> News Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:14:58 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/paltrow-joins-kidman-for-genderbending-danish-girl-1817847.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/paltrow-joins-kidman-for-genderbending-danish-girl-1817847.html ]]> <p>Oscar-winners Gwyneth Paltrow and Nicole Kidman are to play husband and wife in an upcoming film about the world's first transsexual, it was reported Monday.</p> News Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/christmas-carol-hits-high-note-at-box-office-1818025.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/christmas-carol-hits-high-note-at-box-office-1818025.html <p>The festive season lured North American movie-goers at the weekend to leave "Disney's A Christmas Carol" on top of the box office rankings, final figures showed Monday.</p> News Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/150-hours-and-counting-the-worlds-longest-film-goes-on-1817274.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/150-hours-and-counting-the-worlds-longest-film-goes-on-1817274.html ]]> <p>Three decades is a long time to spend making a film, but when your project runs to more than 150 hours, it is perhaps understandable that it takes a little while to put together. Indeed, Gerard Courant's Cinématon is the world's longest. And yet it may also be one of the simplest: this epic movie consists of nothing more than a succession of thousands of people – artists, philosophers, journalists, babies – on camera for three and a half minutes, doing exactly as they please.</p> Features Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/christmas-carol-beats-the-dickens-out-of-box-office-rivals-1817447.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/christmas-carol-beats-the-dickens-out-of-box-office-rivals-1817447.html ]]> <p>With more than 40 shopping days left until Christmas, North American theater audiences already had enough holiday cheer to put "Disney's A Christmas Carol" at the top of the box office this week.</p> News Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/foxpop-to-bring-interactive-features-to-dvd-viewing-experience-1817635.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/foxpop-to-bring-interactive-features-to-dvd-viewing-experience-1817635.html ]]> <p>Fox Studios will release a new program in movie DVDs called 'FoxPop' that will allow users to access a constant flow of information, photos, games or trivia about the film they are watching.</p> News Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/movie-news-recap-eminem-to-star-in-3d-horror-film-1817693.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/movie-news-recap-eminem-to-star-in-3d-horror-film-1817693.html ]]> <p>The movie news recap for November 9, 2009 features Eminem who will return to the big screen, Jonas brothers and Cartoon Network's first live-action series.</p> News Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/bright-star-pg-1816827.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/bright-star-pg-1816827.html ]]> <p> Costume drama has an image problem. For many viewers, the very genre is inherently trivial, fixated on surface beauty and reassuring nostalgia. I admit I often incline to this prejudice, suspicious at the faintest whiff of Quality Street. But if any film vindicates this strain of cinema, Jane Campion's Bright Star is it. Portraying the romance between a man of words and a woman of fashion, Bright Star is itself a musing on the costume drama, on the question of style and substance, on the respective powers of language and image to evoke bygone mores and present emotions. </p> Reviews Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:01:32 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/on-the-agenda-harry-brown-radley-manchesters-royal-exchange-theatre-masterchef-ctrlaltshift-1814730.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/on-the-agenda-harry-brown-radley-manchesters-royal-exchange-theatre-masterchef-ctrlaltshift-1814730.html ]]> Features Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd-brno-1816815.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd-brno-1816815.html <p> Watching Sacha Baron Cohen disguised as a camp Austrian fashion guru, the viewer can snort with laughter, gawp in disbelief at the rudeness,marvel at the star's physicalcomedy and death defying bravery ... and still end up being disappointed that it wasn'tdone better. The reasonis, simply, that it was donebetter, three years ago,when it was called Borat.Brüno copies Boratalmost scene for scene,repeating a once-winningformula without thefreshness or inspiration. </p> Reviews Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd-the-informers-1816816.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd-the-informers-1816816.html <p> Adapted from an early Bret Easton Ellis novel –essentially an anthology of overlapping short stories – The Informers is a failed attempt ata Robert Altman-style web of vignettes set in Los Angeles in 1984. All of its characters (played by Billy Bob Thornton,Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke and others) arehateful, and the shockingmessage seems to bethat endless, callous selfindulgencedoesn't makefor a very wholesomeand fulfilling lifestyle,after all. Who'd havethought it? </p> Reviews Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/the-men-who-stare-at-goats-15-1816820.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/the-men-who-stare-at-goats-15-1816820.html <p> The Men Who Stare at Goats, Jon Ronson's book about the Pentagon's secret experiments in psychic combat, has been adapted into a film in the least satisfying way possible. It stars Ewan McGregor, as a small-town reporter who hears about the experiments from George Clooney's retired sergeant, far right, while the pair of them are driving through Iraq. Shown in flashback, these goofball anecdotes are all very watchable, but the film is ultimately neither one thing nor the other. </p> Reviews Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/a-christmas-carol-pg-1816818.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/a-christmas-carol-pg-1816818.html ]]> <p>Robert Zemeckis's first motion-capture cartoon, Polar Express, was meant to be a cockle-warming children's panto, but instead it was just creepy. The characters were almost photo-realistic, but still not quite human, so they looked like a cross between Tom Hanks and the sentient mannequins from Dr Who. Zemeckis's follow-up, Beowulf, got around that problem by being intentionally blood-curdling, and his third film using the technology is even more ghoulish. In the director's eyes, A Christmas Carol is a gothic horror extrava-ganza to compare with Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell.</p> Reviews Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd-russell-brand-scandalous-1816817.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd-russell-brand-scandalous-1816817.html <p> Ooh, you are naughty. At times during this 80-minute set, it all gets a bit Carry On. But such is Brand's appeal (ahem) based on his sexual antics that the audiencedoesn't seem to care.And nor will you if you normally find Brand funny – it's more of thesame, as he bangs on about reactions to his part in Sachsgate ("Sendhim to Afghanistan!")and hosting the MTVVideo Music Awards(various death threats).But if he's not your bag,baby, this won't changeyour mind. </p> Reviews Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/cartoon-capers-on-the-silver-screen-1816855.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/cartoon-capers-on-the-silver-screen-1816855.html ]]> <p>It began as a flickering optical illusion of a horse running around a ring; transformed into ink splotches resembling a cat or a mouse; and is now a multi-billion pound industry noted for its breathtaking realism.</p> News Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/jennifers-body-15-1816821.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/jennifers-body-15-1816821.html <p>When Diablo Cody won an Oscar for her Juno screenplay, she was suddenly the coolest woman in Hollywood: a lavishly tattooed ex-stripper, discovered via her blog, who could turn an indie comedy into a blockbuster by packing the dialogue with new-minted teen slang. That's why Cody's complacent follow-up, Jennifer's Body, is such a let-down. </p> Reviews Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/thompson-talked-out-of-support-for-polanski-by-19yearold-student-1816553.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/thompson-talked-out-of-support-for-polanski-by-19yearold-student-1816553.html ]]> <p>Emma Thompson is an Oscar-winning actress whose charisma and outspoken personality have earned her admiration and a reputation as a "strong woman". </p> News Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/help-wanted-how-can-we-commit-a-grisly-murder-1816569.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/help-wanted-how-can-we-commit-a-grisly-murder-1816569.html <p>Every horror fan has a favourite celluloid murder scene, be it Hitchcock's slasher shower from Psycho or the gore-fest in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre when teenage hitchhikers are hung on meat hooks.</p> News Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/michael-haneke-bleak-house-1816596.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/michael-haneke-bleak-house-1816596.html ]]> <p>For a film director who demands quite so much of his audience, and even more uncompromisingly of himself, it has taken the Austrian director Michael Haneke a long time (20 years to be precise) to gain the Palme d'Or at Cannes, that quintessential approbation of the art-house auteur. But then maybe, like Martin Scorsese's long wait for an Oscar, it isn't so surprising. Haneke is a director who challenges but he does not satisfy; his ever so precisely organised films grip you with their remorseless catalogue of pain only to leave you unrelieved at the end either by resolution or even explanation.</p> Profiles Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/bollywood-star-kaif-takes-success-in-her-stride-1816709.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/bollywood-star-kaif-takes-success-in-her-stride-1816709.html ]]> <p>Katrina Kaif is one of Bollywood's leading actresses -- the most searched-for Indian female film star on the Internet and a former top model with an A-list boyfriend.</p> News Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/indigenous-film-samson-and-delilah-to-get-french-debut-1816747.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/indigenous-film-samson-and-delilah-to-get-french-debut-1816747.html <p>Australian indigenous director Warwick Thornton's gritty love story about two petrol-sniffing Aboriginal teenagers shows in France this month, its first major foreign release after stunning festival audiences worldwide.</p> News Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/exclusive-trailer-award-winning-japanese-film-lsquodeparturesrsquo-1816167.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/exclusive-trailer-award-winning-japanese-film-lsquodeparturesrsquo-1816167.html ]]> <p> The latest film from acclaimed Japanese director Yojiro Takita beat off stiff competition earlier this year to take the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. </p> Features Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:43:55 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/the-diary-paul-auster-jerry-moffat-punch-magazine-penny-woolcock-1815308.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/the-diary-paul-auster-jerry-moffat-punch-magazine-penny-woolcock-1815308.html ]]> Features Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/1-day-15-1815507.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/1-day-15-1815507.html <p>Penny Woolcock's Birmingham-set drama seeks to meld the black gangsta flick with a hip-hop musical, which some will find a challenge. </p> Reviews Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/bright-star-pg-1815516.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/bright-star-pg-1815516.html ]]> <p>Jane Campion's film Bright Star is a wistful and melancholic account of the unconsummated romance between the poet John Keats and his neighbour Fanny Brawne. It's poetic, too, though not in any precious, Fotherington-Tomas sort of way.</p> Reviews Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/a-christmas-carol-pg-1815511.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/a-christmas-carol-pg-1815511.html ]]> <p>Robert Zemeckis extends the performance-capture 3D technology he deployed on Beowulf to this version of the Dickens story, and if there's nothing here quite as eye-catching as Grendel's mum (Angelina Jolie in heels), it scores high on swooping visuals and meticulous draughtsmanship.</p> Reviews Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/doha-tribeca-film-festival--full-of-eastern-promise-1815508.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/doha-tribeca-film-festival--full-of-eastern-promise-1815508.html ]]> <p>Sir Ben Kingsley is sitting on the terrace of the Al Mourjan Restaurant, looking out over the Arabian Gulf. He goes almost unnoticed at the launch of the inaugural Doha Tribeca Film Festival, as attendees take in the panoramic views of the IM Pei-designed Museum of Islamic Art and skyscrapers sitting atop 15 billion barrels of oil. Under the sweltering blue sky, Mira Nair, whose movie Amelia has been chosen to show first among the 31 films scheduled over the next four days, introduces Martin Scorsese, who is in town to support the World Cinema Foundation restoration of Shadi Abdel Salam's 1969 classic The Mummy. </p> Features Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/carey-mulligans-in-a-class-of-her-own-1815518.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/carey-mulligans-in-a-class-of-her-own-1815518.html ]]> <p>Just under a year ago, Carey Mulligan was sleeping quite soundly at night. Then she found out An Education was going to play at the Sundance Film Festival. The weight of shouldering her first lead suddenly hit her. "I started freaking out that if everybody hated it, it would be all my fault," she explains. "I had these anxiety dreams – very basic anxiety dreams – where Geoff Gilmore, the [former] director of Sundance put me in a car and made me leave for being disappointing. In Park City, in the main high street, he gets this black car and he's like, 'Get in. You've got to go. Everyone thought it was going to be really good!'"</p> Features Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/henrigeorges-clouzots-inferno-15-1815523.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/henrigeorges-clouzots-inferno-15-1815523.html <p>Henri-Georges Clouzot's reputation is founded on The Wages of Fear (1953) and Les Diaboliques (1955), and it might have been enhanced if he had completed his 1964 project, Inferno, about a jealous husband driven towards insanity. </p> Reviews Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/paper-heart-pg-1815529.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/paper-heart-pg-1815529.html <p>This indie squib wobbles briefly on a tightrope between sincerity and cuteness before plunging headlong to a death-by-whimsy.</p> Reviews Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/lost-chaplin-film-discovered-in-5-can-bought-on-ebay-1815748.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/lost-chaplin-film-discovered-in-5-can-bought-on-ebay-1815748.html ]]> <p>When Morace Park bought a can of nitrate film on eBay for $5, he was surprised to discover that it contained footage of Charlie Chaplin.</p> News Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/from-indias-slums-to-the-hell-of-utah-for-danny-boyle-1815730.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/from-indias-slums-to-the-hell-of-utah-for-danny-boyle-1815730.html ]]> <p>His films have explored the heroin-ridden dens of Edinburgh and the heart-wrenching slums of Mumbai. Now the acclaimed British director Danny Boyle will cast his artistic eye over America's Western wilderness with a film that charts the struggle to survive of a lonely mountaineer who was forced to amputate his own arm.</p> News Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/the-men-who-stare-at-goats-15-1815533.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/the-men-who-stare-at-goats-15-1815533.html <p>Interesting title, promisingly quirky subject, top-drawer cast – such a duff movie. </p> Reviews Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/jennifers-body-15-1815524.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/jennifers-body-15-1815524.html ]]> <p>Diablo Cody sounds like someone with a devilish tongue – she wrote the super-sassy hit Juno – and it's at full stretch in this high-school horror. </p> Reviews Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/the-diy-movie-boom-1815521.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/the-diy-movie-boom-1815521.html ]]> <p>Amid all the backslapping and self-important speeches, awards ceremonies are always a good place to take stock. In little under a month, the British Independent Film Awards (the Bifas) will take place in London. Last year, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire was announced as the Best British Independent Film there, prefacing its clean sweep at the Golden Globes, Baftas and Oscars. If that was a first for the Bifas – none of the other winners in its 11-year history had ever claimed a Best Picture Oscar before – it certainly showed one thing: that British independent film has the ability to compete with Hollywood. </p> Features Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/weekly-film-agenda--fantastic-mr-fox-and-harry-potter-hit-the-screens-in-november-1816468.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/weekly-film-agenda--fantastic-mr-fox-and-harry-potter-hit-the-screens-in-november-1816468.html ]]> <p>The weekly agenda for November 6 features George Clooney as Mr Fox and Harry Potter in the Deathly Hallows. Egypt and Greece host international film festivals and The Oscar season previews with the Governor's Awards ceremony.</p> News Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/europe-north-america-top-dvd-sales-in-october-snow-white-high-in-the-usa-and-france-1816530.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/europe-north-america-top-dvd-sales-in-october-snow-white-high-in-the-usa-and-france-1816530.html ]]> <p>Here are the top DVD sales for the month of October, according to the online retailer Amazon. </p> News Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/movie-news-recap-lsquowhite-lightnin-wins-at-11th-mumbai-film-festival-1816551.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/movie-news-recap-lsquowhite-lightnin-wins-at-11th-mumbai-film-festival-1816551.html <p>The movie news recap for November 6 features the Best film winner at the Mumbai international film festival and Disney's christmas international release. </p> News Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/bollywood-podcast-salman-khan-amp-asin-1815431.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/bollywood-podcast-salman-khan-amp-asin-1815431.html ]]> <p> After two decades of loving him on screen and most recently, wondering how on Earth his pecs managed to grow so big, it was lovely to finally meet Salman Khan in the flesh! He stars with last week's podcast star, Ajay Devgan in London Dreams (Studio 18) which is out now. </p> Features Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:26:33 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/win-tickets-to-the-world-premiere-of-harry-brown-1815277.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/win-tickets-to-the-world-premiere-of-harry-brown-1815277.html ]]> News Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:27:41 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/first-music-then-modelling-ndash-now-fuller-trains-his-sights-on-hollywood-1814781.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/first-music-then-modelling-ndash-now-fuller-trains-his-sights-on-hollywood-1814781.html ]]> <p>The impresario Simon Fuller, who created the Spice Girls and now works with Victoria Beckham in fashion and her husband David in football, is to make his move into the Hollywood film industry. Fuller will be the executive producer of a feature film starring the young British heartthrob Robert Pattinson, known to his legion of young female fans as "RPattz".</p> News Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/hollywood-eyes-world-domination-with-risk-1815435.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/hollywood-eyes-world-domination-with-risk-1815435.html ]]> <p>Sony Pictures Entertainment is eyeing global domination after acquiring rights to make a movie version of the classic boardgame "RISK", a statement said Wednesday.</p> News Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/movie-news-recap-anthony-hopkins-is-garciarsquos-hemingway-1815538.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/movie-news-recap-anthony-hopkins-is-garciarsquos-hemingway-1815538.html <p>The daily movie news recap for November 5 has Anthony Hopkins as Ernest Hemingway in Andy Garcia's upcoming movie <em>Hemingway and Fuentes</em>. Also, The Sundance Film Festival introduces local screenings of selected movies for the first time.</p> News Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/third-sherlock-holmes--trailer-is-out-1815497.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/third-sherlock-holmes--trailer-is-out-1815497.html ]]> <p>A third trailer of Guy Ritchie's newest work <em>Sherlock Holmes</em> is out. It promises Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law in a fun, thrilling adventure and lots of special effects.</p> News Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/seeing-double-for-the-2010-oscars-1814484.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/seeing-double-for-the-2010-oscars-1814484.html ]]> <p> Grumpy old men and The Odd Couple never won any Oscars - but next year they could be handing them out. For the first time in the modern era, the biggest event in showbusiness is to have not one, but two hosts. </p> News Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:30:25 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/hollywood-pressure-driving-russell-brand-to-the-barber-1814563.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/hollywood-pressure-driving-russell-brand-to-the-barber-1814563.html ]]> <p> Russell Brand said he will cut his shaggy mane for the sake of his Hollywood career. </p> News Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:33:39 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/how-precious-became-hollywoods-next-big-thing-1814201.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/how-precious-became-hollywoods-next-big-thing-1814201.html ]]> <p>Its heroine is a black teenage girl made pregnant by her own father and repeatedly beaten up by her mother. She is illiterate, penniless, HIV-positive, and weighs 350 pounds. Its setting is a tough district of Harlem, and the plot is relentlessly bleak. It barely even manages a happy ending. </p> Features Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/brand-new-trailer-for-the-wolfman-1814110.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/brand-new-trailer-for-the-wolfman-1814110.html ]]> <p><em>The Wolfman</em> starring Benicio del Toro, Anthony Hopkins and Emily Blunt has a new trailer that is thrilling and scary.</p> News Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/weekly-film-agenda-paranormal-releases-around-the-globe-1814159.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/weekly-film-agenda-paranormal-releases-around-the-globe-1814159.html ]]> <p>A selection of film events around the world November 3-6 include international releases for <em>Paranormal Activity</em> and film festivals in New York City, Germany, Taiwan and London.</p> News Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/oscars-2010-steve-martin-and-alec-baldwin-to-host-1814536.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/oscars-2010-steve-martin-and-alec-baldwin-to-host-1814536.html ]]> <p>The 82nd Academy Awards will be hosted by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, a press release from oscars.org announced.</p> News Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/after-coach-skip-in-fantastic-mr-fox-owen-wilson-will-be-marmaduke-1814329.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/after-coach-skip-in-fantastic-mr-fox-owen-wilson-will-be-marmaduke-1814329.html ]]> <p>Fox's adaption of the comic strip <em>Great Dane Marmaduke</em> will feature Owen Wilson as the voice of Marmaduke.</p> News Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/osaka-showcases-european-cinema-1814427.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/osaka-showcases-european-cinema-1814427.html ]]> <p>The one month-long Osaka European Film Festival opened in Japan's second largest city on Saturday, bringing works by directors and actors to an audience that rarely has a chance to see such movies.</p> News Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/prince-of-persia-trailer-released-1814318.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/prince-of-persia-trailer-released-1814318.html ]]> <p><em>Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time</em> has a new trailer doing the rounds. Distributed by Walt Disney Studios worldwide and set for an international release May 26, 2010 onwards, the film promises action, fiery special effects and Jake Gyllenhaal.</p> News Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/watch-extracts-from-michael-caines-new-film-harry-brown-1813927.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/watch-extracts-from-michael-caines-new-film-harry-brown-1813927.html ]]> <p> Set in modern-day Britain, Harry Brown follows one man’s (played by Sir Michael Caine) journey through a chaotic world where drugs are the currency of the day and guns run the streets. </p> Features Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:28:03 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/scrooge-in-3d-1813577.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/scrooge-in-3d-1813577.html ]]> <p>There are two words Ebenezer Scrooge throws into conversation at the start of every Christmas Carol. The first is "Bah!" The second: "humbug!" Dickens used them, complete with exclamation points, on the first page of his original novella. The film-maker Robert Zemeckis makes us wait no more than a couple of minutes before inserting them into Disney's latest, hi-tech rendering of the classic seasonal parable.</p> Features Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/clooney-caught-in-crossfire-as-war-breaks-out-over-latest-film-1813635.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/clooney-caught-in-crossfire-as-war-breaks-out-over-latest-film-1813635.html ]]> <p>The writer and journalist Jon Ronson must have been thrilled when he learned that George Clooney and Ewan McGregor were to be cast in a film inspired by his book, The Men Who Stare at Goats.</p> News Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/terminator-set-for-salvation-as-bidders-line-up-for-rights-1813701.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/terminator-set-for-salvation-as-bidders-line-up-for-rights-1813701.html ]]> <p>The future of the Terminator franchise will be decided by the end of January as bidders line up to buy the rights from Halcyon, the producer that sought bankruptcy protection in September. </p> Business News Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/indian-film-my-name-is-khan-gets-international-valentinersquos-day-release-1813864.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/indian-film-my-name-is-khan-gets-international-valentinersquos-day-release-1813864.html <p>Fox has announced international release dates for <em>My name is Khan</em>, India's first film that will release in around 40 countries worldwide.</p> News Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/afi-film-festival-connects-with-this-is-it-director-and-film-market-1813866.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/afi-film-festival-connects-with-this-is-it-director-and-film-market-1813866.html ]]> <p>Hollywood is reserved for independent filmmakers this week between the AFI Film Festival featuring plenty of buzz-worthy films and the American Film Market focused on distribution deals for films around the world.</p><p> </p><p> </p> News Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/blockbusters-and-breakthroughs-this-weekends-us-film-releases--clooney-and-carrey-eye-the-top-spot-1814053.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/blockbusters-and-breakthroughs-this-weekends-us-film-releases--clooney-and-carrey-eye-the-top-spot-1814053.html <p>In November, releases for the holiday season heat up with schedules filled with big films vying for Oscar consideration and holiday audiences before the end of the year. Big stars with box office appeal and unknowns are set to make an impression in the lineup of films released in the US November 6.</p> News Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/all-about-steve-trailer-now-available-1813482.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/all-about-steve-trailer-now-available-1813482.html ]]> <p> "The Proposal's" Sandra Bullock, Oscar nominee Thomas Haden Church, and "The Hangover's" Bradley Cooper star in a hilarious tale of a woman who, after falling hard for a guy, thinks they're an item; unfortunately, he thinks she's stalking him! </p> Features Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:51:07 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/holmes-sweet-holmes-literatures-greatest-sleuth-1813057.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/holmes-sweet-holmes-literatures-greatest-sleuth-1813057.html ]]> <p>Along with Santa Claus and Mickey Mouse, he is one of the three best-known personalities on the planet. Orson Welles called him "the world's most famous man who never was", though to millions across the globe he was as real as their family doctor. To a surprising number, he still is. </p> Features Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:33 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/win-the-private-lives-of-pippa-lee-on-dvd-and-a-copy-of-the-book-1802029.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/win-the-private-lives-of-pippa-lee-on-dvd-and-a-copy-of-the-book-1802029.html ]]> <p> Golden Globe nominee Robin Wright Penn and <i>Gossip Girl’s</i> Blake Lively head an all-star cast including, Alan Arkin, Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder and Julianne Moore, in <i>The Private Lives of Pippa Lee</i>, available on DVD for the first time from 2 November. </p> <p></p> News Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:20 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/polanski-offers-swiss-a-sizeable-bail-in-cash-1813196.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/polanski-offers-swiss-a-sizeable-bail-in-cash-1813196.html <p>A lawyer for film director Roman Polanski, who has been held in a Swiss prison since September, says a new bail offer – of a "very, very significant" cash amount – will be filed today. </p> Europe Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/on-the-agenda-were-going-back-in-time-for-a-dalliance-with-dialup-and-an-aled-jonesthemed-christmas-1811024.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/on-the-agenda-were-going-back-in-time-for-a-dalliance-with-dialup-and-an-aled-jonesthemed-christmas-1811024.html ]]> Features Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/women-on-the-verge-why-2009-is-the-year-of-the-female-film-director-1811029.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/women-on-the-verge-why-2009-is-the-year-of-the-female-film-director-1811029.html ]]> <p> Here's a shocking fact: in the 80-year history of the Oscars, only three women have been nominated in the Best Director category. Back in 1977, Lina Wertmüller was the first to be given the nod, for Seven Beauties; then, in 1994, Jane Campion was nominated for The Piano; and in this decade, Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation. None took home the Academy Award. For the Danish film-maker Lone Scherfig, that lack of success is a question of numbers: "Doesn't that just reflect how many films are directed by men?" she asks. "Statistically, it means there's only a small chance that a woman can win an Oscar."</p> Features Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd-public-enemies-for-retail--rental-universal-1813039.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd-public-enemies-for-retail--rental-universal-1813039.html ]]> <p>Johnny Depp and Christian Bale star in Michael Mann's gangster biopic as John Dillinger, the infamous bank-robber, and Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent assigned to bring him to justice.</p> Reviews Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd-orphan-for-retail--rental-optimum-1813040.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dvd-orphan-for-retail--rental-optimum-1813040.html ]]> <p> Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard adopt a nine-year-old girl from an orphanage, forgetting that it's always a mistake to choose a creepy, Russian-accented prodigy who insists on wearing Victorian dresses, and whose previous adoptive family was frazzled in a house fire. </p> Reviews Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/an-education-lone-scherfig-100-mins-12a-1812609.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/an-education-lone-scherfig-100-mins-12a-1812609.html ]]> <p> Based on a memoir by Lynn Barber, An Education is about a 16-year-old girl in 1961 falling for a suave man in his thirties. Nick Hornby, who wrote the screenplay, has invoked Philip Larkin's pinpointing of the discovery of sex in 1963, "Between the end of the Chatterley ban/And The Beatles' first LP". </p> Reviews Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/9-shane-acker-79-mins-12abrtales-from-the-golden-age-cristian-mungiu-ioana-uricaru-hanno-hofer-constantin-popescu-131-mins-12a-1812607.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/9-shane-acker-79-mins-12abrtales-from-the-golden-age-cristian-mungiu-ioana-uricaru-hanno-hofer-constantin-popescu-131-mins-12a-1812607.html <p> Considering the limitless visual splendours that digital animation can put on the big screen, it's about time there were some more cartoons that weren't intended to sell tie-in plastic toys to young children. That's why the bleak and eerie opening scenes of 9 are so refreshing. </p> Reviews Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/scare-tactics-the-hammer-horror-film-posters-with-real-bite-1810983.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/scare-tactics-the-hammer-horror-film-posters-with-real-bite-1810983.html ]]> <p>"Tit and fang" is how the poet Philip Larkin summed up Hammer Films' output and, give or take the odd ill-fated deviation from the formula, he wasn't wrong. Cobwebs, coffins, crucifixes, bats, bubbling test tubes, buckets of blood, crumbling castles, barely restrained cleavages: these were the emblems of Hammer horror and, against the odds, they scared the bejesus out of movie-goers in the late Fifties and Sixties.</p> Features Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/ten-halloween-flicks-to-watch-this-weekend-1812033.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/ten-halloween-flicks-to-watch-this-weekend-1812033.html ]]> <p> Fancy watching something a bit spooky to get you in the mood for Halloween? Here's our pick of ten recently released or revamped horror flicks to whiten those knuckles. </p> <p> <a target="_self" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/ten-halloween-flicks-to-watch-this-weekend-1812033.html?action=Popup"><b>Click here or on the image to launch</b></a><b> </b> </p> Features Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:07:49 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/party-of-the-week-glorious-wartime-spirit-hits-soho-1811342.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/party-of-the-week-glorious-wartime-spirit-hits-soho-1811342.html ]]> <p>The Glorious 39 director Stephen Poliakoff and the film's star Romola Garai headed to an intimate private drinks reception at Kettner's in Soho, to celebrate the film's British premiere at the London Film Festival. </p> Features Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/goblins-a-dentist-and-the-worst-movie-ever-1811355.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/goblins-a-dentist-and-the-worst-movie-ever-1811355.html ]]> <p>On the streets of Alexander City, Alabama, you won't find a single person with a bad word to say about Dr George W Hardy. "He is just the most authentic, alive person", rhapsodises one friend. "He's always smiling and he likes people", adds another. Even his ex-wife struggles to find a flaw in his character. "I can't think of one person who doesn't like George Hardy", she says, a little pensively. "It would be pretty hard not to like George."</p> Features Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/an-american-werewolf-in-london-15-1811463.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/an-american-werewolf-in-london-15-1811463.html <p>An American Werewolf in London also does milieu well. When you think of the hamfisted way most American directors handle Englishness (anyone for Match Point?), Landis's sure sense of the social strata, from creepy Yorkshire pub to yuppie London mansion-flat, is remarkable.</p> Reviews Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/ang-lee--beyond-the-mild-side-1811465.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/ang-lee--beyond-the-mild-side-1811465.html ]]> <p>Rather like Bruce Banner, the Marvel Comics character he once wrestled with in Hulk, there lurks an untamed beast inside Ang Lee. But this is no green-skinned creature with anger management problems but an anti-establishment auteur who dabbles in the dark side. You can see flashes of it in some of his films: the partner-swapping scene in Watergate-era drama The Ice Storm, for example, or the so-explicit-surely-its-hardcore sex in Lust, Caution. And now the LSD sequence in Taking Woodstock, Lee's flower-power comedy about the generation-defining festival. </p> Features Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/starsuckers-12a-1811470.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/starsuckers-12a-1811470.html <p>For the first hour or so, this documentary about the damaging power of celebrity culture is a shambling mix of strained metaphor and truism in the service of a silly conspiracy theory: that somehow celebrity culture helps the media achieve their aim of "control". </p> Reviews Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/film-that-exposes-citys-gangs-is-banned-in-birmingham-1811739.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/film-that-exposes-citys-gangs-is-banned-in-birmingham-1811739.html ]]> <p>When an acclaimed filmmaker decided to make her next feature in Birmingham, it was because she wanted to put the city on the cinematic map. Penny Woolcock has certainly done that, although not in the way that she might have wished, instead sparking a row with the police.</p> News Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/play-truant-and-youll-lose-trust-fund-slumdog-stars-told-1811729.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/play-truant-and-youll-lose-trust-fund-slumdog-stars-told-1811729.html ]]> <p>The two child stars of <i>Slumdog Millionaire</i> are at risk of losing their monthly stipend and their trust fund if they do not start attending school.</p> Asia Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/first-night-nowhere-boy-london-film-festival-1811705.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/first-night-nowhere-boy-london-film-festival-1811705.html ]]> <p>You wouldn't expect a film about the young John Lennon to be a full-blown, Douglas Sirk-style weepie but that is what Sam Taylor-Wood delivers in her remarkably assured debut feature, Nowhere Boy – the closing film at the London Film Festival. Her achievement is to have made an emotionally charged family melodrama without blunting the edge and sarcasm that inevitably come when Lennon is your subject.</p> Reviews Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/tales-from-the-golden-age-12a-1811484.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/tales-from-the-golden-age-12a-1811484.html <p>Given what we know of Ceausescu's Romania, the Orwellian penetration of the state into every corner of daily life, the mildly comic, wistful tone of this portmanteau of short dramas seems puzzling. </p> Reviews Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/the-horseman-18-1811477.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/the-horseman-18-1811477.html <p>A grieving father discovers that the drugs that killed his daughter were given to her during the shooting of a low-budget porn video, and sets out to wreak vengeance on the men involved, befriending a pregnant teenager along the way.</p> Reviews Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dead-man-walking-15-1811476.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/dead-man-walking-15-1811476.html <p>Is there any way of stemming the flow of post-Guy Ritchie cockney crime comedies? Would, say, sticking Danny Dyer's head on a pike somewhere in Bethnal Green be enough of a deterrent? Because I for one would be willing to pay that price. </p> Reviews Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/an-education-12a-1811472.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/an-education-12a-1811472.html <p>Of all literary genres, memoir is surely the most resistant to cinematic treatment: the point of view of a memoir is, however hard the memoirist struggles for objectivity, on the inside looking out. </p> Reviews Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/citizen-kane-u-1811466.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/citizen-kane-u-1811466.html <p>It would be nice to be able to buck the critical orthodoxy and say how tired and overrated Citizen Kane is; but the dulll truth is, it's still, indisputably, one of the great masterpieces of cinema – looking even better in this cleaned-up digital print, which shows off the wonderful clarity and detail of Gregg Toland's "deep focus" camerawork, bolstering the complexities of the story with new layers of feeling. </p> Reviews Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/animal-house-15-1811464.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/animal-house-15-1811464.html <p>John Landis's directing career tailed off in ignominy in the late Nineties, with flops such as The Stupids and Blues Brothers 2000; so it's nice to be reminded just how jauntily inventive he was to begin with.</p> Reviews Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/9-12a-1811462.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/9-12a-1811462.html <p>After an apocalyptic war with the robots all that remains of humanity is a tiny band of sentient dolls stitched from hessian sacking, struggling to survive in civilisation's ruins. </p> Reviews Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/french-prison-thriller-a-prophet-named-best-film-at--london-film-festival-1811370.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/french-prison-thriller-a-prophet-named-best-film-at--london-film-festival-1811370.html <p> French prison thriller A Prophet was hailed a "masterpiece" as it scooped the London Film Festival's inaugural best film prize. </p> News Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:19:02 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/this-is-it-odeon-leicester-square-london-1811070.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/this-is-it-odeon-leicester-square-london-1811070.html <p>The unprecedented 1am start to this London premiere was timed to ensure Michael Jackson's This is It could land in 20 countries simultaneously. It was rather fitting that when the cameras broadcasting footage to the hordes of fans in Leicester Square broke down, shots from the red carpet in Los Angeles were shown instead, connecting the place that Michael Jackson died with the British capital where the This Is It concerts were due to take place from July of this year.</p> Reviews Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/an-exclusive-clip-from-the-keats-biopic-bright-star-1810901.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/an-exclusive-clip-from-the-keats-biopic-bright-star-1810901.html ]]> Features Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:14:44 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/the-shining-declared-scariest-horror-film-ever-1810308.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/the-shining-declared-scariest-horror-film-ever-1810308.html ]]> <p> The Shining has been declared the scariest horror film every made by top film website Totalscifionline.com. </p> News Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:45:04 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/guy-adams-behold-the-staggering-hypocrisy-of-michael-moore-1810738.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/guy-adams-behold-the-staggering-hypocrisy-of-michael-moore-1810738.html <p> Mr Michael Moore is a very great documentary maker; possibly the best that Hollywood has ever seen. </p> News Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:35:23 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/doctor-parnassus-makes-grand-debut-in-european-box-offices-1810670.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/doctor-parnassus-makes-grand-debut-in-european-box-offices-1810670.html ]]> <p>Heath Ledger's final screen performance in Terry Gilliam's <em>‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus'</em> is raging at select European box offices this week as it earned a whopping $2.7 million in its first weekend in Italy.</p> News Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/actor-val-kilmer-to-play-journalist-in-georgia-war-film-1810689.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/actor-val-kilmer-to-play-journalist-in-georgia-war-film-1810689.html ]]> <p>US actor Val Kilmer has arrived in Georgia to portray a journalist covering last year's Georgia-Russia war in a Hollywood film about the conflict, the movie's co-producer said Tuesday.</p> News Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/jackson-movie-offers-glimpse-of-future-1810848.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/jackson-movie-offers-glimpse-of-future-1810848.html ]]> <p>Michael Jackson's "This Is It" blazed across worldwide cinema screens Tuesday, but the movie will do little to answer lingering questions swirling around the singer's final days.</p> News Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/jackson-movie-a-thriller-in-worldwide-premiere-1810800.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/jackson-movie-a-thriller-in-worldwide-premiere-1810800.html <p>Michael Jackson delivered a posthumous thriller Tuesday as fans flocked to worldwide premieres of a documentary film billed as the final concert performance of the King of Pop.</p> News Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/exclusive-footage-from-the-making-of-where-the-wild-things-are-1810291.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/exclusive-footage-from-the-making-of-where-the-wild-things-are-1810291.html ]]> <p> “In terms of musical genre we tried to avoid everything,” explains Carter Burwell the composer responsible for the thudding, crunching, whirring and wonderful score that features in the recent box office smash Where The Wild Things Are. </p> Features Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:01:22 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/daniel-daylewis-honoured-with-british-award-1810241.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/daniel-daylewis-honoured-with-british-award-1810241.html ]]> <p> Hollywood star Daniel Day-Lewis is to receive an honour from the British Independent Film Awards. </p> News Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:32:30 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/fans-flock-to-london-for-premiere-of-michael-jackson-film-this-is-it-1810232.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/fans-flock-to-london-for-premiere-of-michael-jackson-film-this-is-it-1810232.html ]]> <p> Michael Jackson fans are expected to flock to London tonight for a premiere of a film showing the late entertainer rehearsing for live shows which would never happen. </p> News Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:57:33 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/glorious-39-london-film-festival-1809851.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/glorious-39-london-film-festival-1809851.html ]]> <p>Stephen Poliakoff's Glorious 39 (a British premiere at the London Film Festival) is a far more subversive film than its Brideshead Revisited-style patina of nostalgia first suggests. In spite of all the lovingly filmed footage of aristocratic types enjoying country house living in late 30s England, the mood here is closer to that of The Aerodrome, Rex Warner's allegorical novel about fascism in England, than it is to Evelyn Waugh.</p> Reviews Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:01 +0000