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The History of British Cinema: 2011 |
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| 3/1 - | Actor Pete Postlethwaite dies of cancer in a hospital close to his Shropshire home. Always in demand in both Hollywood and the UK, the 64-year-old was best known for his roles in In the Name of the Father and The Usual Suspects. [ADD] | |||
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Peter Yates, the British-born director of Bullitt and Breaking Away, dies of heart failure in London at the age of 81. [ADD] |
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Actress Susannah York dies of bone marrow cancer at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London at the age of 72. She was Oscar-nominated for her role in They Shoot Horses Don’t They? (1969). [ADD] |
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The premiere of alien sci-fi spoof Paul is held in London. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost play a pair of geeks who encounter an alien just outside of Area 51 in the States. The pair also co-wrote. [ADD] |
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| 10/2 - | The Social Network wins four awards at the 31st London Film Critics' Circle Awards in London, including Best Picture and Director of the Year for David Fincher. Colin Firth wins the Actor of the Year award for his performance in The King's Speech. [MORE] | |||
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Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech wins seven awards at the 2011 BAFTA Awards ceremony, including Best Picture, Besting Leading Actor for Colin Firth, and Best Supporting Actress for Helena Bonham-Carter. [MORE] |
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Pinewood Shepperton announces its’ intention to invest millions of pounds in low-budget British films following a 31% rise in pre-tax profits. [ADD] |
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| 13/3 - | A group of stars from the British stage, screen and television industries write a letter to The Observer protesting against cuts in Government funding of the Arts. [MORE] | |||
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Veteran actor Michael Gough, familiar to millions of filmgoers as Alfred the butler in the Batman films of the 1990s, dies at home at the age of 94. [ADD] |
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| 12/5 - | Unlawful Killing, Keith Allen's controversial documentary about the death of Princess Diana in 1997, receives a market screening at the Cannes Film Festival. Allen admits that the film, which was financed by Mohammed Al-Fayed, whose son Dodi Al-Fayed also died in the car crash that claimed Diana's life, is unlikely to obtain a release in the UK. [ADD] | |||
| 7/6 - |
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) bans Dutch director Tom Six’s horror sequel The Human Centipede 2, claiming that, ‘There is little attempt to portray any of the victims in the film as anything other than objects to be brutalised, degraded and mutilated for the amusement and arousal of the central character, as well as for the pleasure of the audience.’ It is only the 11th film to receive a blanket ban in the UK in the Board’s 99 year history. [ADD] |
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| 28/7 - | In a landmark ruling, the High Court orders British Telecom to block internet access to the pirate website Newzbin2 following a case brought by six major Hollywood studios. [ADD] | |||
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The opening three reels of The White Shadow (1924), Alfred Hitchcock’s first film, are discovered at the New Zealand Film Archive. Left there by the family of a projectionist and film collector following his death in 1989, the film remained unidentified for more than 20 years. [ADD] |
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| 8/8 - | Hundreds of thousands of DVDs are destroyed in a fire started by rioters at the DADC warehouse - the major distribution warehouse for Sony - in Enfield, North London. [ADD] | |||
| 18/8 - | The Inbetweeners Movie, the big screen version spin-off of a popular Channel 4 TV show, scores record-breaking premier takings of £2.58 million. Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison and Joe Thomas reprise their roles as a group of social misfit friends who endure a variety of mishaps on their first foreign holiday. [ADD] | |||
| 19/8 - | Jimmy Sangster, the writer of such Hammer classics as Dracula (1958), The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) and The Mummy (1959), dies at the age of 83. [ADD] | |||
| 16/9 - | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Tomas Alfredson's adaptation of John Le Carre's spy thriller is released. The film, which stars Gary Oldman (as George Smiley), Colin Firth, John Hurt and Mark Strong, takes £2.8 million in ticket sales in its opening weekend. [ADD] | |||
| 20/9 - | The British Medical Journal publishes research recommending that any film in which actors are seen smoking should receive an automatic 18 certificate. [ADD] | |||
| 27/11 - | Controversial director Ken Russell dies in his sleep at the age of 84. [ADD] | |||
| 14/12 - | Veteran film director Don Sharp dies in Cornwall at the age of 90. [ADD] | |||
| 16/12 - | Actor Nicol Williamson dies of oesophageal cancer in Amsterdam, Netherlands at the age of 75. [ADD] | |||
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