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Bradford International Film Festival

2010

Bradford International Film Festival celebrates its 16th edition in 2010. It will run from March 18 to 28, opening with the premiere of Perrier's Bounty, starring Cillian Murphy and Jim Broadbent.

The festival will close with the world digital premiere of the late Lionel Jeffries' The Railway Children.

Other years (6)

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  • Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory
    Review preview for Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory

    A few scenes are likely to genuinely terrify younger viewers, but Wonka would be the first to point out that children ought to be terrified now and then.

    Max Crawford · 4 out of 5
    A little boy wins a golden ticket to visit the secret workings of a chocolate factory.
  • Farewell
    Review preview for Farewell

    Director and co-scribe Christian Carion, adapting from Serguei Kostine’s book, smartly distills the global Cold War politicking into Froment and Grigoriev’s tense relationship.

    Paul Griffiths · 3.5 out of 5
    A spy finds himself in danger when he decides to leak documents that could lead to the downfall of the Soviet Union.
  • When You're Strange
    Review preview for When You're Strange

    Seamlessly balances the scenes that made the band infamous, with the intimate moments and the atmosphere of an era.

    Daniel Hooper · 4 out of 5
    Documentary tracking the rise of The Doors, featuring rare footage of the band and Jim Morrison.
  • Vincere
    Review preview for Vincere

    Filippo Timi is excellent as the young, supremely egotistical Mussolini.

    Val Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    The story of Musslolini's secret love child.
  • Die Hard
    Review preview for Die Hard

    A cool, classic and creative action picture.

    Gator MacReady · 5 out of 5
    Bruce Willis is a lone cop in an office skyscraper, taken over by terrorists.
  • 1
    Review preview for 1

    Enigmatic in form, encyclopaedic in scope, and leaving room between its lines for many different readings, Sparrow's 1 encapsulates, much like the book from which it takes its name, the whole of human experience in eccentric, elliptical cross-section.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    Adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's One Human Minute, sees bookshop staff incarcerated because copies of a book describing everything that happens to everyone on the planet in the space of a minute are found on their shelves.
  • Four Lions
    Review preview for Four Lions

    Because it wouldn't be a Chris Morris production unless it made me feel horrendously uncomfortable in some way or other, I laughed a lot, realised with horror what nightmarish events I was laughing at, and then started to laugh at that instead.

    Paul A J Hamilton · 4 out of 5
    Four bungling would-be suicider bombers try to go out with a bang.
  • The Blacks
    Review preview for The Blacks

    The Blacks is observational, not judgemental. It catches your breath.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A Balkans war era army unit disintegrates in the woods.
  • Whip It
    Review preview for Whip It

    Drew Barrymore's directorial debut blasts in some girls who just want to have fun - and you'll be happy to join them.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    A bored suburban girl discovers a new way to live when she attends a roller derby and meets a tough team of competitive skaters.
  • Dogtooth
    Review preview for Dogtooth

    Don't read this review... simply go and see it, for if ever there was a film that is best experienced without knowing a single detail, this unforgettable oddity from Greece is the one.

    Andrew Grant · 4.5 out of 5
    Three siblings cut off from society spend their lives trapped in their family’s home.

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