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All good things
must come to an end and last night the London Film Festival bid a fond
farewell to its two week annual resistant in Leciester Square. As the
posters outside the ODEON cinema were pulled down and the LFF Trailer
was being towed away, fans made their way back to their homes. They had
been gathering outside the cinema in the vain hope that George Clooney
would stop and squiggle his name on a piece of paper. But that was two
hours ago, now it was time for George to relax with some close friends
in the VIP area at the after show party held at Floridita, a posh restaurant
in Wardour Street. There, in the safe hands of his American security our
favorite ER doctor of yesteryear would be kept away from annoying reporters
who were pleading to the staff to be allowed inside the cornered off area
with his ex girlfiend, Lisa Snowdon. For goodness sake you paparazzi scallywags,
the man has had a long night, stop hassling him because try as you might
nobody is going to be able to get even a stonethrow inch near him tonight. WIN OUR GOODIE
BAG IN OUR NEWish Because we normally just report back from the Premiere parties and can't really be arsed to review the film itself we have come up with a great idea. Let's nick a review off the Internet! Bluntly, word by word until we are tangled up in a copyright fiasco. Here's a review of the film and the first person to email us the exact URL link where this review originally appeared at on the web will be sent an official goodie bag from the Closing Gala party! Packed with DVDs, books and an out of date entertainment magazine. Title your email 'Good Night & Good Luck Comp'. "Good Night, and Good Luck " takes the quintessential '50s TV drama -- Ed Murrow vs. Joe McCarthy -- and recasts it as . . . a '50s TV drama. The stylizations are terrific, though young people may not get them: black-and-white cinematography, huge close-ups, lots of smoke under theatrical lighting, ominous dialogue. It's like "Playhouse 90" of the '00s. George Clooney, who directed (as well as co-wrote), seems to be channeling Sidney Lumet or John Frankenheimer as he retells the classic story of the crusading journalist who stood up to a braying political bully." |
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