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In Dinard, a Golden Hitchcock and the secret history of James Bond

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- The 23th edition of this British film festival opens today in the seaside town in Brittany

On October 5, 1962, the first James Bond film, Doctor No, was released in cinemas. To celebrate this 5o year anniversary, the 23rd Dinard British Film Festival (to start today) will this Friday hold a Global Bond Day to include a screening of Stevan Riley’s documentary James Bond – Everything or Nothing 07 that Sony Pictures is to release the same day in the United Kingdom.

Beyond this event, the Brittany seaside town festival is also to host its traditional competition for a Golden Hitchcock until October 7. A jury presided by Patrick Bruel (to be joined by Marjane Satrapi and Catherine Corsini among others) will select the winner from six films: b>Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn’s Good Vibrations [+see also:
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(read the news and the review), Ben Drew’s Ill Manors [+see also:
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(Drew is better known as Plan B on the music scene), Finnish director Laura Hypponen’s Live East Die Young (nominated for best British film at Raindance) , Tom Shkolnik’s The Comedian, Rowan Athale’s Wasteland (recently screened in the Discovery section at Toronto), and James Marsh’s Shadow Dancer [+see also:
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(well-reviewed in Berlin – read the review).

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Seventeen feature films will also make their French debut at the festival, including Marc Evans’s Hunky Dory [+see also:
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(to open the festival), Ben Wheatley’s ferocious Sightseers [+see also:
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(watch the interview - discovered at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes – out in the United Kingdom on September 30 and in France on December 26), Michael Winterbottom’s Everyday, Phil Mulloy’s Dead But Not Buried, and Barnaby Southcombe’s I, Anna (screened out of competition in Locarno).

The following are also worth mentioning in the event’s very replete programme: homages to director John Schlesinger and actor Tom Courtenay, a special screening of Laurent Tirard’s Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia, and the classic short film competition for students from the National Film and Television School (NFTS) and the FEMIS.

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(Translated from French)

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