Here’s six clips audio clips from Julianne Moore’s sit down chat at the London Film Festival with Briony Hanson (director of London’s The Script Factory, a organization which offers programs for developing filmmakers). I was so far back that posting Julianne’s face over the embarrassing actual video was necessary, but try and enjoy anyway.. One clip here, the other five after the jump.
4,000+ Londoners (and this Canadian) showed up at Trafalgar Square last night for the London Film Festival’s special outdoor screening “London Moves Me,” a celebration of London’s transport through over 20 films from the BFI National Archive and London’s Screen Archives. With live piano accompaniment by Neil Brand, Londoners braved some somewhat chilly weather to cheer through films that toured London’s transport - trains, buses and bicycles, skateboard, airship and canoe - from 1896 to 2009. It was an impressive display of civil pride, I must say…
Check out this article I wrote for indieWIRE on one of the more fascinating film festival panels I’ve attended in a while… Five women working in the industry sat down to chat about whether or not there’s a “sea change” in female-associated filmmaking, and what exactly that characterization means in the first place. I had taken video from the event but a tall man who sat down in front of me ruined that quite quickly..
I had the pleasure of participating in some of the festivities for “An Education”‘s hometown premiere in London last night… There’s really nothing much to note beyond that besides that the film seemed to be received quite well, Carey Mulligan looked adorable as always, and the nightly London Film Festival party in its honor continued to help me save money on food with their incredible finger foods, so I’ll just post a few photos (including one of “An Education” memoirist Lynn Barber, who theoretically Mulligan’s Jenny grows up to be):