Live at the London Film Festival
join us for the LFF cocktail hour, where we will be talking live to the hot names at the festival, including :
- Steven Soderbergh, director of the legendary Sex, Lies and Videotape
- Nick Broomfield, director of controversial new documentary Heidi Fleiss - Hollywood Madam
- JP Davidson,the director of The Grotesque, a new film starring Sting.
On Friday 17 November it’s the turn of Nick Park, the brilliant UK animator whose lovable creations Wallace and Gromit, in The Wrong Trousers, won him the Oscar last year. Their latest adventure makes its world premiere on the previous evening. To talk over the Net to Nick about this and other films, join us.
Sheila Whitaker, director of the London Film Festival, was interviewd live last friday with Nick Thomas from Moving Pictures magazine for an informal hour of film festival and industry chat. Sheila and Nick will discuss the opening few days of the festival and will look ahead to some of next week's highlights.
The festival will have just opened with the International Premiere of 'Strange Days' directed by Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break and Blue Steel). Strange Days (starring Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett) has outraged and divided critics in the US, with its depiction of a violent race-torn Los Angeles set in the very near future. On the Internet itself the film has been flamed for its portrayal of cyber culture. Moving Pictures describes the film as brilliant and awesome. Sheila and Nick will discuss the responses to last night's screening and will answer questions about this and other films in the Festival.
On Monday 6 November, the latest film from the leading French film director Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Le Hussard sur le Toit (The Horseman on the Roof) receives a gala Festival screening in London. Before that, Rappeneau will be appearing live at 17.30-18.00hrs GMT on the Internet to answer your questions.
Featuring rising star Olivier Martinez and Juliette Binoche, the film is a bold sweeping epic in the grand French tradition.
Perhaps best known for directing Gerard Depardieu in 'Cyrano de Bergerac' Jean-Paul Rappeneau is one of the eminent figures in French cinema today. The conference will be mainly in French but a translator will be available to answer questions in English.
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