London critics honour Coen drama
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US thriller No Country For Old Men is named movie of the year by the London Film Critics' Circle.
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Joel and Ethan Coen's "No Country for Old Men," a tale of moral decline wrapped in a gritty crime drama, won the top film prize from Hollywood's producers on Saturday, making it the clear front-runner in the race to the Oscars.
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Charles Dance is named best actor in the Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for his performance in Shadowlands.
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"No Country for Old Men," a gritty drama about a killer who cuts a path of destruction across Texas, was named best film at the Critics Choice Awards on Monday, leaving contenders such as "Into the Wild" and "Juno" by the wayside.
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The Coen brothers' No Country For Old Men wins another major award ahead of this month's Oscars.
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The London Film Critics' Circle gives seven nominations to The Queen starring Dame Helen Mirren.
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Sebastian Coe promised London would stage the "best Games ever" as the visiting International Olympic Committee (IOC) evaluation commission began its formal inspection of the capital's bid to stage the 2012 event.
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Coen brothers film No Country for Old Men wins top prize at the Directors Guild of America (DGA) awards.
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Long considered the favorite to take home the coveted Oscars statuette, Mirren fought off stiff competition from Penelope Cruz , Meryl Streep and fellow Britons Judi Dench and Kate Winslet .Comment
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Arts & entertainment: No Country for Old Men emerges triumphant at the actors' and directors' guilds awards
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The Writers Guild of America, the International Animated Film Society and the London Film Criticsâ Circle announced their awards.
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The playwriting debut of the filmmaker Ethan Coen sold out before its first preview on Wednesday night Off Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Companyâs Stage 2. Featuring F. Murray Abraham, Jonathan Cake, Mark Linn-Baker and Mary McCann, the three short plays, under the title âAlmost an Evening,â open officially on Jan. 22 for a run through Feb. 10. ... Kate Winslet will replace Nicole Kidman opposite Ralph Fiennes in âThe Reader,â Variety reported. Ms. Kidman, citing her pregnancy, dropped out on Monday. The film, directed by Stephen Daldry (âThe Hours,â âBilly Elliotâ), is based on a Bernhard Schlink novel about a German teenager who falls in love with a woman who once worked in Auschwitz.
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Ethan Coen and his brother  Joel have made some of the smartest and most entertaining films  of the past 25 years, from "Blood Simple" to "Barton Fink" and,  most recently, "No Country for Old Men." But Ethan's foray into  theater via three one-acts warily titled "Almost an Evening" (a  world premiere) is, to put it kindly, not up to standard.
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Joel and Ethan Coen's "No Country  for Old Men," a tale of moral decline wrapped in a gritty crime  drama, won the top film prize from Hollywood's producers on  Saturday, making it the clear front-runner in the race to the  Oscars.
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Festival-goers in Berlin give a rousing reception to the film Hotel Rwanda and its star Don Cheadle.
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Jonathan Coe, the best-selling British novelist whose satiric prose has won numerous literary awards, found himself challenged by the non-fiction genre in his biography of an avant-garde writer of the 1960s.
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TORONTO  - A critic's reaction to a film festival is akin to the old story about the five blind men who all touch an elephant and report wildly different descriptions of what the animal must look like based on the particular body part encountered.