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56th BFI London Film Festival – Choice picks from this year’s lineup

This year’s BFI London Film Festival has a new head and a new look. Australian Clare Stewart has succeeded the LFF’s legendary festival director Sandra Hebron and will be up on stage on Wednesday 10th October to introduce the opening … Continue reading

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Pete’s Peek | Sally Potter’s bold and beautiful Orlando on Blu-ray

Sally Potter’s 1992 adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s gender bender 1928 literary classic, Orlando: A Biography, is a sumptuous affair, and certainly looks more that it cost (some £4m), making wondrous use of its locations and giving Tilda Swinton her breakout … Continue reading

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Sally Potter searches for budding stars for new film

Independent filmmaker Sally Potter – director of the spellbinding Orlando – is looking for two teenage girls to play the lead roles in her new feature film. Potter and her film production company Adventure Pictures are searching for two aspiring … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings | Elizabeth

On Film4 tonight at 9pm Shakespeare in Love, Elizabeth the Golden Age, The Virgin Queen, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, Orlando, Mary Queen of Scots, The Prince and the Pauper, Jubilee, Young Bess; what do they all have … Continue reading

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