Features
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Special Feature: ‘Hollywood Costume’ at the V&A
What better way to get closer to the movies you cherish than to see the actual, iconic costumes which were once adorned by your favourite screen stars? From now up until the end of January 2013, London’s V&A plays host to the long-awaited Hollywood Costume exhibition. The gallery’s Senior Guest Curator is one Deborah Nadoolman Landis,…
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Special Feature: BAFTA & BFI Screenwriters’ Lecture Series
Over the past two years BAFTA have invited many of the finest screenwriters working today to discuss their methods and projects. Past guests at these prestigious talks have included William Nicholson, Charlie Kauffman and Armando Iannucci. This year the lecture series continues with a an equally impressive selection of screenwriters from both the UK and…
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Sponsored Video: ‘Les Misérables’ featurette
For the first time this January, audiences will experience Les Miserables as never before, in a new and unique adaptation from Academy Award-winning director Tom Hooper (2010’s The King’s Speech). The 2013 will feature an all-star, ensemble cast that includes Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Aaron Tveit, Samantha Barks, with…
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Sponsored Video: Virgin Media presents Shorts 2012
For a fifth consecutive year, this September (up until the climactic award ceremony on 8 November) Virgin Media will once again be running its Shorts filmmaking competition, now firmly established as the biggest of its kind here in the UK. Throughout the history of cinema, short-form filmmaking has helped to blood-in some of the world’s…
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Sponsored Video: ‘Untouchable’ UK trailer
Eric Toledono and Olivier Nakache’s Weinstein-backed Oscar hopeful Untouchable (The Intouchables, 2011) receives its long-awaited UK cinema release this Friday (21 September) following huge box office takings in other territories around the world. Based on a true story, Untouchable recounts the blossoming relationship between wheelchair-bound French millionaire Philippe (François Cluzet) and his loyal carer Driss…
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Jameson Cult Film Club: Spielberg’s ‘Jaws’ at Greenwich Yacht Club
Yesterday evening, CineVue were kindly invited along to the latest Jameson Cult Film Club event, which presented a very special screening Steven Spielberg’s digitally restored, monster movie classic Jaws (1977). Setting up shop within London’s Greenwich Yacht Club, hundreds of guests congregated around the yard, bar and burger-flogging BBQ to watch on as Spielberg’s abnormally…
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Film4 Summer Screen 2012: Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’
This August, Somerset House’s Film4 Summer Screen season played host to a very special screening of British ‘Master of Suspense’ Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 classic The Birds, featuring a digitally re-mastered version of the film shown for the very first time in the UK. Illuminated with blood-red lighting, the open-air venue could not have been more…
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Special Feature: Our 5 picks for the British Film Registry
This week, CineVue were kindly invited to provide our top five picks for films to be inaugurated into WhatCulture’s brand new British Film Registry. The Registry is currently being designed as an archive for Great British Cinema, lauding only the finest works the UK currently has to offer. The results can be seen by following…
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Film4 Summer Screen 2012: ‘On the Road’ UK Premiere review
★★☆☆☆ Following its inaugural outing at Cannes, Brazilian director Walter Salles’ film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s Beat novel On the Road received its UK Premiere this week courtesy of Film4’s Summer Screen season. Situated in the spacious open-air courtyard of London’s Somerset House, Salles’ alt. road movie garnered mixed reviews from the Croisette’s assorted international…
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Special Feature: Crowd-sourced film ’50 Kisses’ now has scripts
In late October, Regent’s College London will once again play host to the 2012 London Screenwriters’ Festival 2012. The biggest professional screenwriting event in the world will see over 100 speakers present at a series of script labs, speed pitching seminars and networking opportunities. In conjunction with the event, a competition was launched to make…