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3714 articles available in total starting from 23/05/2002. Last article published on 24/07/2025.

Watson boards Oranges & Sunshine

British actress Emily Watson has joined Hugo Weaving and David Wenham in the cast of Jim Loach’s debut feature Oranges & Sunshine. Loach is a veteran of British television and will direct from...  

25/11/2009 | Production | UK

Meadows foregoes serious subjects to go on tour with Le Donk

UK director Shane Meadows has taken a break from his “normal” projects to make Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee, a mockumentary reminiscent of jokes between friends, which has just been presented at the...  

23/11/2009 | Films | UK

Welsh fancy A Bit of Tom Jones?

The £100,000 comedy A Bit of Tom Jones?, written and directed by former BBC producer Peter Watkins-Hughes, was pitted against Hollywood blockbusters 2012 and A Christmas Carol at Merthyr Tydfil’s...  

23/11/2009 | Releases | UK

Turin FF: Bomber a typically British “nightmare”

An 80-year-man talks to someone in close-up: “More than anything, we need courage to make decisions we’ve put off for a long, long time”. Thus begins the feature debut (after numerous shorts and...  

19/11/2009 | Films | UK

The Queen attacks pirates, embeds Channel 4 film remit

The Queen has sounded a warning against pirates in her annual speech to the houses of parliament while introducing the Digital Economy Bill. Under the Bill’s two pronged approach as outlined in...  

19/11/2009 | Industry | UK

UKFC redraws funding schemes

In a bid to counter the twin threats of the recession and the £25m reduction of income due to the 2012 Olympics, the UK Film Council (UKFC) is planning to amalgamate its existing Premier, New...  

18/11/2009 | Funding | UK

Interview: Renato De Maria • Director

"A couple that views reality through ideology"

A few days ahead of the theatrical release of The Front Line, Cineuropa interviewed the film’s director in Rome, as well as screenwriter Sandro Petraglia  

16/11/2009

Interview: Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne • Producers

"Grand school of Italian cinema that tells a chapter of history"

Interview with the Dardenne brothers, co-producers of The Front Line with Lucky Red’s Andrea Occhipinti  

16/11/2009

The Front Line

Terrorism as we’ve never seen it before on the big screen. A film co-produced by the Dardenne brothers, who were fascinated by the screenplay that revives the great tradition of Italian cinema  

16/11/2009 | Films | Reviews

Turin fest opens with surprising biopic Nowhere Boy

For the second year in a row, the Turin Film Festival (November 13-21) opens with a biopic. A year after Oliver Stone’s relentless W., the 27th edition of the festival kicks off with Nowhere Boy...  

16/11/2009 | Films | UK

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