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The Baftas: Not as much fun as the Oscars
Published 2/11/2008 by Mark Brown at Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk
Rosamund Pike stuck resolutely to the script. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Sunday's Baftas were a strangely flat affair. Every film that should have been recognised was recognised, in some way. Every speech was genuine and non-controversial. It was all a bit, well, bland. ...

Bafta were wrong to veto The Last American Freak Show
Published 2/13/2008 by Richard Butchins at Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk
Roll up, roll up, to The Last American Freak Show When the London Disability Arts Forum asked if they could show my film at a joint special event at Bafta on the 18th of February, I was unsure. The film, The Last American Freak Show , wasn't finished and I couldn't finish it by the 18th. LDAF wanted to champion it as a "work in progress", in order to help raise the funds I needed to finish it. Bafta, they said, were behind the idea, and Peter Kinkead told me he only needed to send the DVD over to them for the event to be rubber-stamped. Excellent, I ...

Bloggers dissect the ending of the writers' strike
Published 2/13/2008 by Anna Pickard at Culture: TV and radio blog | guardian.co.uk
... in the US. In many ways it's good news - heaven knows what the world would have done without the Oscars, and now they're back on track. Although it would have been nicer if they could have at least stopped just before the Baftas , thus denying Jonathan Ross anyone to blame his absolutely woeful script on. "Yay!" say the ...