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Directors Guild crowns Kings
The Screen Directors Guild of Ireland hosted a reception in Dublin last night to announce that Kings , Tom Collins's bilingual feature film, is the recipient of the guild's 2007 Directors Finders Series award. As a result, Kings will have a special screening in Los Angeles before an audience of US distributors.
Actually it is a popularity contest
Does Britain - or anywhere else in the world - need yet another movie awards ceremony?
Lady Chatterley
Is it still possible to take Lady Chatterley's Lover seriously? The key elements in DH Lawrence's once scandalous novel - posh lady rolls around with burly gamekeeper - could now be regarded as a creation myth for the soft porn industry.
Private fears in public places/Coeurs
'All the lonely people/Where do they all come from?/All the lonely people/Where do they all belong?" The lyrics of Eleanor Rigby frequently came to mind while observing the misadventures of six characters looking for love in Alain Resnais's new film, which is based on a play by Alan Ayckbourn.
Labour of love
He's being hailed as the new King of Comedy, but it took a long time to become an overnight success, Knocked Up director Judd Apatow tells Michael Dwyer .
