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1 November 2012 10:22 PM, PDT | DearCinema.com | See recent DearCinema.com news »

The 17th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (Iffk) has announced its lineup. The festival will run from 7th to 14th December, 2012 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

Some of the highlights of the lineup are festival favourites of the year Amour, Chitrangada, Samhita, The Sapphires, Drapchi, Miss Lovely, Me and You, Celluloid Man, and Baandhon.

Fourteen films will screen in the Competition section while seven contemporary films will be screened in “Indian Cinema Now” section.

Complete list of films:

Competition Films

Fourteen feature films from Asia, Africa and Latin America will compete for the coveted “Suvarna Chakoram” (Golden Crow Pheasant) and other awards.

Always Brando by Ridha Behi (Tunisia)

Inheritors of the Earth by T V Chandran (India)

A Terminal Trust by by Masayuki Suo (Japan)

Shutter by Joy Mathew (India)

Today by Alain Gomis (Senegal-France)

The Repentant by Merzak Allouache (Algeria)

Sta. Niña by Manny Palo (Philippines)

Present Tense »

- NewsDesk

27 September 2012 8:29 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Catch up with the last seven days in the world of film

The big story

"Shaken not stirred;" "I expect you to die;" "Keeping the British end up"... James Bond has been part of the movie furniture for so long it hardly seems there could have been a time when 007 wasn't around. But it was in 1962 that the first Bond movie hit cinemas – exactly 50 years ago – and to celebrate we put on our thinking caps and considered what was our favourite Bond film.

Incredibly, we didn't all agree. Peter Bradshaw got all amorous for

From Russia With Love, Philip French said yes to Dr No, Tom Lamont aimed his peepers at Goldeneye, and Xan Brooks treasured Diamonds Are Forever.

There's more where that came from next week, as other Guardian critics have their say. You can have yours here, on the open thread.

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26 September 2012 11:30 AM, PDT | Movies.com | See recent Movies.com news »

Arts and culture website The Space will be screening Alfred Hitchcock's newly restored silent comedy, Champagne — thanks to the BFI. Bring your bubbly to the computer on Thursday, September 27 at 3:30 p.m. Et for a look at Hitch's eighth film about a spoiled heiress named Betty (Betty Balfour) living off daddy's trust fund. Pops is in the champagne business and isn't a fan of Betty's gold-digging boyfriend so he devises a plan to get rid of him. Hitch wasn't in the business of killing off his characters in 1928, so the shady Romeo lives to tell about it. In an interview with François Truffaut, the director expressed his unhappiness with the story, stating that "the film had no story to tell." Initial reviews of the film were mixed...

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- Alison Nastasi

21 January 2012 4:08 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Donald Sutherland flies in to salute Nic Roeg, Michel Hazanavicius doffs his cap to Hitchcock and John Le Carré embarks upon a French charm offensive

Quiet goes the Don

One of the great pleasures of hosting and organising the London Critics' Circle film awards last week was getting Donald Sutherland over from La to present the Dilys Powell award to Nic Roeg. The Don't Look Now director had no idea his great friend was coming over, and was quite floored by Donald's surprise appearance right at the end of the ceremony. When I offered Donald the opportunity of presenting the award to Nic, he took about a minute to reorganise his shooting schedule on The Hunger Games in La, flew in overnight, popped down to BFI Southbank for a tech rehearsal, went out for dinner, came back in and gave a gloriously colourful account of making love with Julie Christie »

- Jason Solomons

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