Tag Archives: Frost/Nixon

Awards Season | Slumdog Millionaire & Benjamin Button lead the field at the Baftas

Slumdog Millionaire and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button are the frontrunners in the race for this year’s Bafta awards, whose nominations were announced today. Slumdog, Danny Boyle’s tale of a Mumbai street kid, and Benjamin Button, David Fincher’s eccentric … Continue reading

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BFI 52nd London Film Festival – The Best view from the red carpet at the Frost/Nixon World Premiere

  If you are a ‘civilian’, to use Liz Hurley’s notorious description of the non-famous, then attending a movie premiere is a strange experience. At last night’s gala screening of Frost/Nixon, the London Film Festival’s opening film, I rolled along … Continue reading

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BFI 52nd London Film Festival – Opening night… and the pick of the rest

The Times BFI London Film Festival opens tonight with the world premiere of Frost/Nixon, Ron Howard’s screen version of Peter Morgan’s hit play. Over the past few weeks I’ve been dashing hither and thither, from Leicester Square to, er, Leicester, … Continue reading

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BFI 52nd London Film Festival – Stars in Leicester Square… and above Nelson’s Column

There are just seven days to go before this year’s Times BFI London Film Festival gets underway with the world premiere of Frost/Nixon, the screen version of Peter Morgan’s hit play about the historic 1977 encounter between disgraced US president … Continue reading

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52nd Times BFI London Film Festival – could this be your only chance to see these films?

My post on the press launch of the London Film Festival last week highlighted a number of the event’s most prominent movies, including the opening and closing galas – Frost/Nixon and Slumdog Millionaire. If you miss these films during the … Continue reading

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52nd Times BFI London Film Festival – first look at this year’s lineup

I’ve just returned hotfoot from the press launch of this year’s Times BFI London Film Festival, clutching a copy of the hefty programme. It’s over a hundred pages, so it will take me a while to get to grips with … Continue reading

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