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London film festival 2009

November 2009

  • Scene from A Prophet (Un Prophète)

    Un Prophète leads European film awards nominations

  • nowhere boy sam taylor wood

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    Trailer Trash

  • Noel Fielding at the London film festival premiere of Bunny and the Bull

    London film festival 2009: it's a wrap

    The 53rd London film festival came to a glittery close last night with the world premiere of Nowhere Boy as organisers celebrated their highest ever audience attendance. Here's a look at the last seven days

  • Aaron Johnson as John Lennon in Nowhere Boy (2009)

    Nowhere Boy

    This tale of a young John Lennon, torn between his legendary mother and equally formidable aunt, is an accomplished feature debut from Sam Taylor-Wood

  • No One Knows About Persian Cats (2009)

    Film blog
    Banned but not on the run at the London film festival

    Simon Jeffery: The feature film No One Knows About Persian Cats, showing at the festival tonight, shows an aspect of Tehran rarely seen by the west: its underground live music scene

  • Scene from A Prophet (Un Prophète)

    Un Prophète triumphs at London film festival awards

    Jacques Audiard's prison drama hailed as 'a masterpiece' as it takes the festival's inaugural best film prize
  • The first cinema trip in 40 years

  • Scene from the Coen brothers' A Serious Man

    A Serious Man

  • Scene from Glorious 39, directed by Stephen Polikoff (2009)

    Glorious 39

    London film festival: Stephen Poliakoff's pre-second world war conspiracy thriller never zips the way it should, but it's still a solid, old-school entertainment

  • Michael Haneke: 'There is as much evil in us as there is good'

  • Scenes from The Road and The Boys Are Back

    London film festival: Dad's the word…

  • Scene from Alexander the Last (2009)

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    Film family tree: Alexander the Last

    Joe Swanberg traces the genealogy of his film Alexander the Last, showing at the London film festival from 24 October

  • Still from Mugabe and the White African (2009)

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    Mugabe and the White African: taking Zimbabwe's plight to the world

    Mugabe and the White African is a covertly-filmed documentary about a white Zimbabwean family's stand against Robert Mugabe's land reform campaign. Co-director Andrew Thompson reveals how the film was made against enormous odds

  • The Boys Are Back

    Film blog
    The kids aren't all right in The Boys Are Back

    Henry Barnes: Child actors can rely on cuteness and clever editing to emerge from action movies and comedy. But, as two films screening at the London film festival show, proper drama is no kindergarten

  • Scene from Made in Jamaica (2006)

    The Guardian Film Show
    Film Weekly goes to the London film festival

    Jason Solomons and Xan Brooks digest the best of the fest so far. Plus, interviews with the directors of LFF premiere documentary American: The Bill Hicks Story and Made in Jamaica, released this week

  • Dylan Duffy

    1 Day: the stand-in who became the star

    Dylan Duffus was working as a Birmingham barber. Then he called the director of a new British film. By Hannah Pool

  • Andrew Bujalski

    London film festival family trees
    Film family tree: Beeswax

    Continuing our series in which directors with features at the London film festival place their work within the context of cinema. Today: Andrew Bujalski, director of Beeswax

  • Underground (1928)

    Film blog
    Silents are golden at the London film festival

    Ronald Bergan: The London film festival is screening three silent classics this year, reminding us just how eloquent dialogue-free movies are capable of being

  • Scenes at Piccadilly Circus, part of London Moves Me at 2009 London film festival

    Dave Hill on London
    London film festival: London Moves Me

    Dave Hill: The London film festival's outdoor screening of historic London transportation films reveals an endless cycle of logjam and innovation

  • Scene from Dear Lemon Lima (2009)

    London film festival family trees
    Film family tree: Dear Lemon Lima

    Mother Teresa, Sarah Palin and Oprah's Dr Phil – Suzi Yoonessi traces the ancestry of her Alaska-set feature, showing at the London film festival from 25 October

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