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Keira Knightly on the red carpetHundreds of screaming fans, some of whom had been waiting in the rain for 16 hours, welcomed Benedict Cumberbatch on the red carpet for the European premiere of The Imitation Game at the gala opening of this year's BFI London Film Festival. The Sherlock star plays computer pioneer Alan Turing in the wartime drama.

After three days of close sparring, David Fincher’s provocative adult drama Gone Girl edged out horror spinoff Annabelle to finish first on the domestic charts with a well earned$38 million. Based on Gillian Flynn’s bestselling 2012 book, this cerebral thriller pits husband and wife Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike against each other in a contest which dissects not only their relationship but also the institution of marriage itself as well the inflammatory nature of the media in the United States.

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Forget about celebrity buzz, glamorous gowns or even red carpets. The Helsinki International Film Festival, down to its whimsical subtitle – Love & Anarchy - is a laid-back movie affair for people who are passionate about interesting stories.

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Federal Councilor Simonetta Sommaruga opened the 2014 Zürich Film Festival (ZFF), by joking: “Congratulations to all film directors who dared to come to Zürich to a Festival inaugurated by the Minister of Justice. But I am happy to report, even after three opening ceremonies, still no arrests have been made.

Curator of "Through Indian Eyes": Filmmaker Valerie Red-HorseThere were neither campfires nor calumets when a band of domestic Indians and a band of foreign journalists united in a peaceful pow wow. They came together to support their mutual passions – American Indian reality and cinematic fiction.

Some leading stars have been fading away recently, so rapidly and so dramatically that many people in the movie industry are openly questioning if the star system model still holds and makes sense.  We’ll refrain from naming names here to protect the innocent, but on the other hand there are still those consistently prove that their mere presence pulls people into theaters, year after year.

What do films like The Bigamist, MacBeth, Diary of a Chambermaid, Farewell To Arms have in common? Answer: All those films have been saved from extinction by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, their restorations financed by the HFPA. And now another classic will be rescued from the endangered species list:.

As a summer that most studios, distributors, theater owners and anyone else involved in the film business in the North American market would like to forget has come officially to its end, Fall started on a positive note. And brought the hope that maybe things may change and that the end is not here yet.