Though parts of the East End are still as poor as anywhere in Britain, bits of it have become chic destinations for young professionals perhaps attracted by the raffish image projected in proliferating East End gangster films, which the Kray legend has inspired.
He prepares us to accept the moments of piercing, almost miraculous clarity that arise, as if by accident, at the end of his best films.
This is a rare beast - the likes of Magnolia and The Deep End satisfied, but we need films like this in the mainstream, not just relegated to arthouse distribution.
The Academy did end up nominating ten films for Best Picture (they could have nominated fewer going by the complicated new formula) but there were few surprises.
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At the opposite end of the quality spectrum, Oscar-bait films are starting to trickle out in limited release this weekend.
Hong hopes to release a dozen films by the end of next year, but he admits that for now only a quarter of his TV programming is of the quality that he wants.
The company eventually settled litigation over the issue with Fox , Warner Bros. and Universal , agreeing not to rent new titles from the three studios for the first 28 days after release in exchange for a promise of a steady supply of copies of hit films at the end of the 28-day window.
Certainly some films released toward the end of the year were no doubt hindered in North America either due to lack of days in the calendar or, perhaps, by a limited release before going wider in 2009.
If the new Pirates film doesn't end the year as one of the 10 highest-grossing films, it will be counted as a disappointment for Disney.
Smart's secret agent is a composite of James Bond, stripped of the cinematic irony that makes everything 007 does in the 21 Bond films to date so incredibly cool at the film's end.
The films are, in the end, not so much mock documentaries as records of a deep-down dorkiness that becomes a form of blessedness.
Horror movies rarely get respect in year-end lists, but of the three films scripted or co-scripted by Joss Whedon this year ("The Avengers" and "Much Ado About Nothing" were the others), "The Cabin in the Woods" was the most fiendishly ingenious -- a horror movie that was truly out of the box.
The trio's films included A Room With a View and Howards End, for which Jhabvala collected the Academy Award in 1987 and 1993 respectively.
For most franchises that would have been the end of it, after all Star Wars was films, not TV episodes that could be endlessly repeated.
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All films end with a transformation of the artists face into a mosaic of plants and flowers, similar to the images portrayed on the printed material.
Bonham Carter, who has starred in films including Howards End, Planet of the Apes and Fight Club, was nominated for a best actress Oscar in 1998 for The Wings of the Dove.
But some films had been released at the year's end and had gotten poor reviews.
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But Hollywood is terrified that if it drops or loses the case, it could end up with a family of mutated films.
Hollywood is terrified that if it drops or loses the case, it could end up with a family of mutated films--either porno versions of Snow White or a Driving Miss Daisy with license plate frames from Crazy Bill's Used Car Lot.
Amour, a French movie from director Michael Haneke about an elderly couple nearing the end of their lives, has the lowest return of the nominated films.
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"Those are always my favorite films, the ones that leave people divided at the end because they're raising questions, not giving you some sort of opinion, " she said.
"Unless The Lord of the Rings addresses these issues before it transfers to London's West End, it will remain a pale imitation of the books, the films and, tragically, theatre itself, " wrote critic Kamal Al-Solaylee.
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It allows digital films to look more like they were captured on the very high end medium of 35mm film.
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Having completed a well-received stint in West End comedy The Little Dog Laughed this spring, she will appear in three films over the summer blockbuster season - Tamara Drewe, Prince Of Persia and low-budget thriller The Disappearance Of Alice Creed.
Mr Darwish is hopeful that such flops spell the end of the trend and, in fact, none of the new films this winter touches on Israel.
Fox says preproduction on Avatar will start in about a year and that Cameron might shoot the two films back to back which means both could be in theaters before the end of 2015.
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Most stories whether they be novels, plays, films, or slide decks have a beginning, the middle, and an end.
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The full line-up of films for the festival, which runs from 5 to 15 February, will be announced towards the end of January.
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