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This Week...
The BFi London Film Festival got underway with a bang this week, as Never Let Me Go kicked off the Festival in style. Stars Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield walked the red carpet to get things going, and our intrepid reporters Chris and Sam were there to cover every step of the way - and they'll be there the whole way through the Festival. But that was just the first salvo in a week that also saw the return of Film 2010, also starring our Chris, and a whole raft of big movie events on the site, from the gorgeous new Black Swan artwork to your guide to becoming a war movies expert to a quiz on Polish movie posters. Good luck getting through it all before next week. Helen O'Hara
Deputy Online Editor, Empire | | |
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|  | | | Do I still have that Timothy Dalton wig in my drawer? No I don't, because we blew it up and covered it in ketchup.
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The London Film Festival Videblogisodes
The BFI London Film Festival has rolled into town again, and it's bigger, better and more glamorous than ever. The two-week long celebration of all things cinema kicked off on Wednesday with Never Let Me Go, and bright young things Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield were on the red carpet to bring a touch of extreme handsomeness to the event, followed the next night by Chloe Moretz and the cast of Let Me In. As ever, our intrepid reporters Chris and Sam will be bringing you all the videblogisodes that matter during the Festival, chatting to the stars and colouring proceedings with their patented brand of insanity. Stay with us all fortnight for the full story... | | | |
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Alien: Anatomy Of The Chestburster Scene
As the Alien Anthology inches its way towards its Blu-ray release, we thought we'd take this opportunity to bring you an in-depth, first hand account of the most famous scene in Ridley Scott's Alien. Originally published in the November 2009 issue of Empire, here is the story of the chestburster from the people who made it... | | |
|  | | The Story Behind The Empire Strikes Back
It's universally acknowledged as one of the best sequels ever made, an effort that expanded the world of its predecessor and left us gagging to see its sequel - while at the same time being a classic in its own right. To mark the release of The Making Of The Empire Strikes Back book this week, Empire picks the six most important decisions made during the creation of this game-changing follow-up, with commentary and analysis by the book's author J.W. Rinzler... |
|  | | Become A War Films Expert In Ten Easy Movies
War, what is it good for? Well, not much we grant you, but it has inspired moments of pure movie magic. From Lewis Milestone's pioneering tracking shot across the shell-pocked battlefields of All Quiet On The Western Front to The Hurt Locker's parched sniper-off, the chaos, horror and adrenaline-flood of combat has burnt off the screen. If you're a newcomer to the genre, Empire's handy guide offers a thorough grounding in ten simple steps. Only combat-based films qualify for this list, so no satires (Three Kings), no home-front flicks (Hope And Glory), no paranoia thrillers disguised as war movies (Crimson Tide), and no funny business (MASH). As for the rest, anything goes and, in the case of Come And See, actually does. Edwin Starr, these are for you. |
|  | | Hollywood's Most Delayed Sequels
By the end of this year we'll have seen four long-awaited movie follow-ups: Predators, Toy Story 3, Tron Legacy, and Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. But they are far from the first overdue sequels cinema's ever produced: there's a whole host of delayed part 2s out there, some good, some bad, some utterly appalling, and in celebration of these latecomers, we've gathered together the best and the worst of them for your reappraisal. And, no, we aren't counting Disney straight-to-DVDs (we're looking at you, Bambi II) or the Star Wars prequels. Because, you know, they're prequels. Ahem. |
|  | | The Totally Bonkers Polish Poster Quiz
Poland doesn't have your average movie posters. Avoiding the all-too-easy trap of simply taking America's original and swapping the text out with their own, The Polish School Of Posters is a bright and beautiful world of startling colours and magnificent metaphors. Or something like that. Anyroad, they're completely mad, and if you're not told what they're meant to be, you'd have almost no idea. So guess what? We've done exactly that, removing the titles and leaving you to guess for yourself. Powodzenia! (That's good luck, by the way...) |
|  | | Know The Score: Rock Stars-Turned-Composers
Rock stars are a versatile bunch. They can write tunes, reduce mild-mannered crowds to baying, moshing masses, trot the globe for months on end and go triple platinum, all while wearing improbably tight trousers. And as Trent Reznor and Attica Ross prove this week with their terrific work on The Social Network, they can also knock out a highly accomplished movie scores when they set their minds to it. So if you're looking for a composer to provide a full whack of tuneful ditties for a major Hollywood release, you could do a lot worse than head to Glastonbury. Or just have a read of our guide to some of the best rock-star/director collaborations of recent years... |
|  | | Anatomy Of An Opening Sequence: David Fincher's Seven
Seven's opening is one of cinema's greatest credit sequences - a dark-as-night journey into the life, and mind, of a serial killer. Now, ith Seven released on Blu-ray for the first time you can actually read all John Doe's diary entries for the first time, all in crystal 1280p - and, take our word for it, they don't say "Take cat to the vet". The man who made them, virtuoso title designer Kyle Cooper, gave Empire a fascinating frame-by-frame insight into their creation. "They came from Fincher's ability to meditate on dark things and the anger I had at that time," he reflects when we caught up with him. "Now I think of it as a bit of a playful dance. We were making a mess and having a good time doing it…". |
|  | | Jameson Empire Awards Done In 60 Seconds Competition
Ladies and gentlemen, it's back - and this time it's personal. It's time once again for the Empire and Jameson Done In Sixty Seconds competition, where we ask you to recreate classic movies in no more than a minute. You must take a piece of cinematic genius (or not-so-genius if you prefer), boil it down to its essence and cram it all into a timeframe shorter than the life expectancy of the comedy sidekick in a slasher movie. To take part in this year's competition and be in with a chance of winning an Empire Award and attending the star-studded and glittering Jameson Empire Awards in March 2011, grab some mates and blag a camera from somewhere and get shooting. To sixty seconds, and not beyond! |
|  | | 54th BFI London Film Festival Now Open!
The Festival is in full swing; there's still some seats available for events and screenings with new tickets released daily. Check out our music related features including The Ballad of Mott the Hoople and Lemmy. See award-nominated documentary The Peddler or great British director Ken Loach's Route Irish. Be a part of it...browse the full programme and book tickets at bfi.org.uk/lff or call 020 7928 3232. |
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A cardboard box containing Gwyneth Paltrow's head a Seven Blu-ray and lots of art from the film. Cheerful! | | | |
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The Social Network 
A rich, understated character drama that gleefully exposes the petty playground politics at the centre of one of the internet-era's most bitter court cases. | | | |
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