From the British Film Institute: We're excited to announce the line-up for this year's BFI London Film Festival, which will showcase 204 feature films and 110 shorts over 16 days. In addition to our previously announced opening and closing night films, Fernando Meirelles' 360 and Terence Davies'  The Deep Blue Sea [pictured left, starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston], Gala highlights inclu…

From Raindance: Dogwoof Presents: The Best Of The 15th Raindance Film Festval Shorts The sixth in the Raindance DVD series, The Best Of The 15th Raindance Film Festival Shorts is a unique collection of innovative short films from the 2007 festival. This eclectic mix includes festival award winners, award nominees, the 2007 festival trailer, and a behind-the-scenes peek o…

The highlight of Edinburgh Film Festival for me was Korean feel-good masterpiece, I'm a Cyborg And That's OK (pictured left), sort of like Michel Gondry remaking One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. For those wanting to see more of such jems as Oldboy and Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring, the new accord between the UK Film Council and the (South) Korean Film Council should see plen…

  An Edinburgh film-maker is launching his new horror film, SACRIFICED, at a free preview screening at the city's Cameo cinema. Keith Bradley has written, produced and directed the feature film which he funded from the sale of his house.   Sacrificed is his first feature film. "Basically the whole thing has been a cinematic challenge that I set myself. Could I se…

  The award-winning Scottish film Red Road is already receiving acclaim in the American press, ahead of its Stateside launch.  The first feature film by Oscar-winning director Andrea Arnold is set in Glasgow. It features Katie Dickie's harrowing portrayal of a CCTV operator whose life is turned upside down when a shadowy figure from her past appears on the monitor in front of he…

  "Film as media has one great flaw — it's a one-way media with a passive audience. As much as I love to dictate the storyline and control the experience I still wish that the audience could take an active part" Lars von Trier   In the start of a new concept, the release of Lars von Triers latest film, The Boss of It All, apparently contains between…

It all began when Filmingk started distributing this "taut and edgy thriller" about a young man who discovers a DVD on the streets of New York by doing just that.  We left copies of the DVD all over the East Village of Manhattan, with frightening results.

The UK Film Council have unveiled their latest round of Print and Advertising funding. The Prints and Advertising Fund (P&A) provides £2 million a year for the wider release of specialised, art-house and foreign language film. The P&A support is used to produce extra prints and increase advertising for specialised films which otherwise would only have a limited release in th…

"David's completely avant-garde attitude towards life make this the right film at the right time for this approach." David Lynch's three-year in the making Inland Empire is to be self distributed in North America, the director announced at the New York Film Festival last Friday. Staring Laura Dern, who takes three roles, the three-hour DV film is set to'explore new…