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Published: 08/11/2010
Chairman: Jason Solomons
Vice-Chairman: Anna Smith
Hon. Secretary: Rich Cline
Featured articles
32nd London Critics' Circle Film Awards
The Artist and A Separation top the winners at BFI Southbank on 19th January 2012
Rich Cline
21/01/2012
The End: An Electric Sheep Anthology by Virginie Selavy
Film Essays For People Who Like Film
Laurence Boyce
23/01/2012
The End: An Electric Sheep Anthology is published by Strange Attractor Press and is available at http://strangeattractor.co.uk/books/the-end/
The Alan Smithee Column
Another one bites the dust?
Alan Smithee
11/05/2011
It's not show friends, it's show business.
LONDON FILM CRITICS’ CIRCLE HONOUR VISIONARY BRITISH FILM DIRECTOR NICOLAS ROEG
London, 2 December 2011
Rich Cline, Secretary of the Critics' Circle Film Section
02/12/2011
Critics' Circle Film Section, Nicolas Roeg
A Doctor Prescribes
Mark Kermode lets fly
William Russell
01/09/2011
Mark Kermode takes on Michael Bay and a host of other film makers who fail to deliver the goods but makes lots of cash
The Penfold Polemic
You know who you are!
Phil Penfold
01/09/2011
Film writer and critic Phil Penfold, aka the Man from Doncaster, blows his top about anti social colleagues who are unprofessional to their fingertips.
Nina Hibbin
The Tyneside Cinema and Nina Hibbin
William Russell
14/07/2011
Michael Chaplin's history of this celebrated cinema and what it says about the critic who helped save it.
32nd London Critics' Circle Film Awards nominations announced
Awards to be presented Thursday, 19th January, at BFI Southbank
Rich Cline
20/12/2011
Black Comedy
A Life Extraordinary - screenwriter John Hodge's new play
02/11/2011
Surviving under a tyrant.
Members of the Film Section
Including Honorary Members
06/01/2010
The members of the Film Section
When Critics Disagree
It boils down to a matter of opinion in the end
Mike Goodridge
23/08/2011
An argument that will never end although time might just show who was right and who was wrong.
"We laughed a lot": Interview with the late Michael Cacoyannis
A fascinating talk with the director of Zorba The Greek
GEORGE SAVVIDES
17/08/2011
A fascinating interview with Greek director Michael Cacoyannis by Critics' Circle member George Savvides; first published in Parikiaki, 27 January 2000.
My First Cannes
Vice Chair of the Critics' Circle Film Section Anna Smith on Cannes 2011
Anna Smith
24/05/2011
FDA's UK CINEMA SHOWCASE
The FDA shows its star power
Marianne Gray
09/05/2011
KINO
The BFI Russian Pioneer Film Season
Marianne Gray
06/04/2011
Russian film season at the BFI
Winners of the Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film
William Russell
23/03/2011
The Tree Of Life: Cannes Controversy
Critical controversy surrounds the UK release of Terrence Malick's Palme D'Or contender
Tim Robey
19/04/2011
The Anthony Minghella Film Festival - March 2011
A festival with a different touch
Marianne Gray
22/03/2011
The Anthony Minghella Film Festival, hosted by his family and the BFI, on the Isle of Wight.
Bring on the thinking movies.
Summer's mindless spectacle gives way to harsher weather's thinking movies.
Mike Goodridge
02/09/2011
Summer is for inane, mindless spectacle, but autumn and winter – as if the harsher weather demands it – bring on the thinking movies.
The Stars Come Out
Guests at the 31st Awards
William Russell
11/02/2011
Stars walking on the red carpet at the 31st Critics' Circle Film Awards
The London Critics' Circle Film Awards
The dazzling awards event was held for the first time at BFI SouthBank.
Karen Krizanovich
11/02/2011
The Nominees for the 31st Film Awards
February 10, 2011
15/01/2011
The list of our nominees
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Award: Film of the Year
The winners going back to 1980
04/12/2010
The best film of the year from 1980