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18/10/2005
BBC films at The Times bfi 49th London Film Festival
BBC films to be featured at the upcoming The Times bfi 49th London Film Festival are Michael Winterbottom's ‘A Cock & Bull Story’, based around the novel ‘Tristram Shandy’, starring Steve Coogan, Jeremy Northam, Shirley Henderson, Ian Hart, Gillian Anderson and Stephen Fry; Dominic Savage's passionate love story ‘Love + Hate’, set among racial tension in Northern England, starring Samina Awan, Tom Hudson and Wasim Zakir; and Michael Caton-Jones' intense drama ‘Shooting Dogs’, starring John Hurt and Hugh Dancy, set against the Rwandan genocide.
Rounding off the BBC Films titles is the directorial debut of acclaimed writer Joe Penhall, a short film called ‘The Undertaker’, starring Rhys Ifans and Natalie Press.
Beyond the LFF, November 25 sees the release by Pathé of Stephen Frears' much anticipated 'Mrs. Henderson Presents', the true life story of eccentric Windmill Theatre founder Laura Henderson, starring Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins, and produced by Norma Heyman.
Redbus will release A Cock & Bull Story on January 20 here, with January 27 as the date for the US release. Shooting Dogs will be released early next year in the UK by Metrodome.
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Rounding off the BBC Films titles is the directorial debut of acclaimed writer Joe Penhall, a short film called ‘The Undertaker’, starring Rhys Ifans and Natalie Press.
Beyond the LFF, November 25 sees the release by Pathé of Stephen Frears' much anticipated 'Mrs. Henderson Presents', the true life story of eccentric Windmill Theatre founder Laura Henderson, starring Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins, and produced by Norma Heyman.
Redbus will release A Cock & Bull Story on January 20 here, with January 27 as the date for the US release. Shooting Dogs will be released early next year in the UK by Metrodome.
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