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Kate Burnet's and Dan Woerner's recent videos weave images from pop culture, the 1961 British film The Day the Earth Caught Fire, and their own animations of burning cars, among other collected material, into a complex system of images that do not rely on a traditional linear narrative format.

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Photo Credits: Anthony Holloway Early in October 2014, we were delighted to be able to form a creative partnership with Abandon Normal Devices (AND) in order to deliver «Watch the Skies» a weekend celebration of Sci - Fi film at Jodrell Bank as part of the British Film Institute's «Days of Fear and Wonder» series.

Anne Hathaway feigns a British accent in her new film, One Day, so it seemed only fitting that she chose to wear an offering from a British fashion house to the New York City premiere.

The film wasn't great, but I had a really lovely night, and would recommend some of the other outdoor movies the British Film Institute are screening this summer, especially if, like me, you grew up watching the film Grease with the iconic Drive - Thru movie date scene... something it's otherwise very hard to recreate, living in the UK in this day and age.

This is the crux of Andrew Haigh's rivetingly beautiful new film, which screened at the Venice Film Festival this morning, and finds the British director working on a brighter, broader canvas than ever before: a present - day American West of drab diners, grumbling trucks, and starlit open desert.

Apparently it's already been and gone from British cinemas, but I don't remember noticing it was there; a pity, because it sounds quite engaging, the kind of lighthearted caper film which used to come from these shores on a frequent basis in days gone by.

Don't worry, it's not; Deadpool 2 filmed at Hatley Castle in British Columbia, which served for the stand - in for the X-Mansion in X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Deadpool and X-Men: Apocalypse.

Adapted and Americanized from the 1974 novel by popular British author Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File), Dogs casts Walken as Jamie Shannon, one of several mercenaries making a narrow exit from war - torn Central America in the film's opening sequence.

There weren't too many British films about at that time, and there were people like Daniel Day Lewis and Tim Roth competing for the few decent parts going.

But a few days before it was due to start shooting, the British government closed a tax loophole for funding movies and the film collapsed.

Indeed, digital platforms remain a key part of getting UK indie films in front of audiences in a challenging environment, with The Ghoul also nominated for Outstanding British Debut, alongside I Am Not a Witch (both released day - and - date), Lady Macbeth and Jawbone.

Bookies» favourite The Lobster, a British co-production directed by Greek film - maker Yorgos Lanthimos, took the Prix du Jury (or third prize) for his satire about single people who must find a mate within 45 days or be turned into a wild animal.

Like that earlier film — a thunderous historical epic about the American West and greed that deepens and darkens considerably with Day - Lewis's performance as Daniel Plainview, an oil - prospecting Mephistopheles — Phantom Thread continually torques its own British midcentury grandeur.

This special one day event will feature a series of films with famously mustachioed actors including Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, Groucho Marx, William Powell, Peter Sellers and Sean Connery, which segues into a tribute to British born actor Richard Harris who often sported a mustache as well as a full beard.

Available same day as select theaters nationwide is Ghost Stories (2017, not rated), a British anthology horror film with a streak of dark humor co-starring Martin Freeman.

Like his most acclaimed contemporary, Daniel Day - Lewis, Gary Oldman got his start in British theater before taking smaller roles in films and television.

Anglophiles who frequent the British cinema for the civilized ambience of such films as The Remains of the Day and Howards End should consider this fair warning:

I'm not sure why the British broadsheets are all falling over themselves to publish their «best of the 2000s» lists in early November, but mere days after The Telegraph critics declared Michael Moore's «Fahrenheit 9/11» the film of the decade, The Times has weighed in with their own Top 100.

It revolves around a real life interview Hervé did with a British journalist in 1993 just days before he committed suicide, which the journalist (who is played Fifty Shades of Grey's Jamie Dornan in the film) «very much saw... as his sort of suicide note almost, and he was very keen to explain to people about Hervé's life».

You can't make a British horror film these days without straining to articulate class anxieties, and Ciaran Foy's Citadel is no exception.

«Ex Machina» marks the directing debut of British writer Alex Garland, who wrote the Danny Boyle films «28 Days Later» and «Sunshine» and — at age 26 — wrote the novel that was the basis of Boyle's film «The Beach.»

In three weeks... Look out for superior British horror thriller Kill List... Terrence Malick's dazzling keynote film Days Of Heaven is reissued...

A few months back, after we announced our upcoming release of Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom, we received a note from a viewer asking us which version of the film we would be releasing, noting that a 2001 British Film Institute (BFI) release feature...

The film opens with an ingenious British Pathé - style archive documentary that airdrops us into deepest darkest Peru in the company of handlebar -» tached explorer Montgomery Clyde (Tim Downie), whose lost expedition succinctly establishes a young bear's motives for stowing away on a cargo ship bound for present - day London with little more than a literal hatful of marmalade sandwiches for sustenance.

British filmmaker Simon Aboud makes his full length debut as a director and writer of the indie film Comes a Bright Day.

Dunst's performance here is hardly different than those she would portray in modern - day films for young adults, and although Coppola's dialogue does mostly avoid obvious modern catchphrases and slang, all of the actors speak in their own native dialects, with a cast blended with mostly American and British actors.

There aren't many films made for adults these days, let alone one that features some of the best British talent in the business, so when a good movie does come along, audiences are going to flock to theaters to see it.

Sarah Snook is Marian Marriott, Sarah's perhaps obsessively loyal niece and secretary, whose son Henry (Finn Scicluna - O'Prey) acts as the spooky, singing British tyke we can expect in any period horror film these days.

Today was a day for films about people stirring things up in their families and communities, and about British films stirring things up here at the festival.

Jeremy Irons plays John, a character with some of those feelings, in «Chinese Box,» Wayne Wang's film about the last days of British colonialism in Hong Kong.

Because we received the great gift of a Love Actually sequel, in the form of a short reunion film for the British children's charity, Red Nose Day.

The footage was so awful that the British government stifled it, and the film never saw the light of day - till now.

Written and directed by Terrence Malick («Badlands,» «Days of Heaven,» «The Thin Red Line»), «The New World,» the eagerly anticipated period drama set during the pivotal founding of the Jamestown colony by the British in 1607 and the inevitable clash between English settlers and Native Americans, proves to be, if not a major disappointment (thanks to Malick's visual lyricism, obsessive attention to period detail, appealing leads, including newcomer Q'Orianka Kilcher as Pocahontas and a surprisingly restrained Colin Farrell as John Smith), a disappointing film nonetheless.

With their critically - acclaimed 28 Days Later, British writer Alex Garland and director Danny Boyle proved both that the zombie film was ripe for a new twist and that they could make a really good horror movie in their first try.

Filmed in just 14 days, British writer - director Sally Potter's spry comedy of manners unfolds over the course of a farcical evening at the home of a politician (Kristin Scott Thomas), who's celebrating her ministerial promotion with her husband (Timothy Spall) and friends.

Department of War True Glory AVA02725VNB1, 1945 General Eisenhower introduces this joint US / British Government film that surveys the entire campaign in Western Europe from just before D - Day to the surrender of Germany in May 1945.

A movie review of «Queen and Country,» John Boorman's semi-autobiographical film about his days as a conscript in the British army.

9:35 am — IFC — Millions In this Danny Boyle film, a young British boy finds a bag with millions of pounds in it; the catch is that Britain is days away from switching to the euro, so the money will soon be worthless.

But compared to the formal radicalism of earlier cinematic memoirs like Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) and The Long Day Closes (1992), this latest film from the great British auteur continues more in the classical vein of recent films like The House of Mirth (2000) and The Deep Blue Sea (2011).

Reynolds Woodcock, the 1950s - era British fashion titan played by the astounding Daniel Day Lewis in what he cruelly insists is his final film role, likes secrets.

BAFTA nominations list Best film Birdman Boyhood The Grand Budapest Hotel The Imitation Game The Theory of Everything Leading Actor Benedict Cumberbatch - The Imitation Game Eddie Redmayne - The Theory of Everything Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler Michael Keaton - Birdman Ralph Fiennes - The Grand Budapest Hotel Leading Actress Amy Adams - Big Eyes Felicity Jones - The Theory of Everything Julianne Moore - Still Alice Reese Witherspoon - Wild Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl Supporting Actor Edward Norton - Birdman Ethan Hawke - Boyhood J.K. Simmons - Whiplash Mark Ruffalo - Foxcatcher Steve Carell - Foxcatcher Supporting Actress Emma Stone - Birdman Imelda Staunton - Pride Keira Knightley - The Imitation Game Patricia Arquette - Boyhood Rene Russo - Nightcrawler Outstanding British Film»71 The Imitation Game Paddington Pride The Theory of Everything Under the Skin Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer Elaine Constantine (writer / director)- Northern Soul Gregory Burke (writer), Yann Demange (director)-»71 Hong Khaou (writer / director)- Lilting Paul Katis (director / producer), Andrew de Lotbiniere (producer)- Kajaki: The True Story Stephen Beresford (writer), David Livingstone (producer)- Pride Film Not in the English Language Ida Leviathan The Lunchbox Trash Two Days, One Night Documentary 20 Feet from Stardom 20,000 Days on Earth Citizenfour Finding Vivian Maier Virunga Animated Film Big Hero 6 The Boxtrolls The Lego Movie Whiplash Adapted Screenplay American Sniper Gone Girl The Imitation Game Paddington The Theory of Everything EE Rising Star Jack O'Connell Gugu Mbatha - Raw Miles Teller Margot Robbie Shailene Woodley

The naturally slender Oldman spent four hours a day in a makeup chair and wore prosthetics equal to half his body weight to play the garrulous and heavy - set British prime minister in Joe Wright's film.

Nearly 20 years after The Long Day Closes finished an acclaimed cycle of films, both nostalgic and unsparing, which mined his working - class postwar boyhood, he enters into a marriage of his sensibilities with those of Rattigan, king of the pre - «angry» British theater, and alchemizes the drama into something stranger and more unsettled.

The film follows Daniel Day - Lewis as British couturier Reynolds Woodcock, who lives a lonely life among his staff and his caretaking sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) as he dresses 1950s London high society.

Filmed entirely in English, the main casting is led by the British Eddie Marsan («7 days in Entebbe», «Ray Donovan», «Atomic», «Sherlock Holmes»), Paul Anderson («Peaky Blinders», «Hostiles»,» The Reborn «-RRB- and the Spanish Ivana Baquero («The chronicles of Shannara `,» The Club of the Uncommitted «and Goya Revelation Actress 2007 for» The Labyrinth of the Faun «-RRB-.

Just 2.8 days after 28 Days Later was named «best British horror film of the 21st century» in a wide - ranging survey of horror filmmakers, critics and fans, the new trailer for 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Dredd screenwriter Alex Garland's Ex Machina has arridays after 28 Days Later was named «best British horror film of the 21st century» in a wide - ranging survey of horror filmmakers, critics and fans, the new trailer for 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Dredd screenwriter Alex Garland's Ex Machina has arriDays Later was named «best British horror film of the 21st century» in a wide - ranging survey of horror filmmakers, critics and fans, the new trailer for 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Dredd screenwriter Alex Garland's Ex Machina has arriDays Later, Sunshine and Dredd screenwriter Alex Garland's Ex Machina has arrived.

Filmed in Capetown, South Africa, writer Guy Hibbert's home country, «Eye in the Sky» is an «on the home hand, but on the other hand» drama shot in real time on a day in which British and American intelligence locate the presence of top ranking Al - Shabaab terrorists in a Nairobi compound.

Inspired by the privileged secret drinking society that Prime Minister David Cameron and London mayor Boris Johnson were part of during their university days, the play was a powerful and scintillatingly written look at class, inequality and cruelty in British society, and early indications are that the film, which has been significantly opened up and rewritten, could pull off the same.

Churchill is a small but interesting film that presents a brief, engaging character study of the British icon in the days leading up to the Allied invasion of Normandy (codename: Operation Overlord).

The film sees Brosnan — 12 years after his last outing as James Bond, in Die Another Day — return to action - movie form as a former CIA operative (with, somehow, an unexplained British accent) with an axe to grind with his ex-employer and ex-trainee (now promoted to full operative status).