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By BAZ BAMIGBOYE

Last updated at 08:51 14 September 2007


• Andrew Garfield, who

plays the title character in

John Crowley's gripping

and unsettling film, Boy A.

He plays a young man

incarcerated since the

age of 12 for the killing of

a ten-year-old girl.

His sensitive performance

captures the trauma of

someone coming out of

darkness into the light.

The film is inspired by, but

is not about, the James

Bulger case. It will be

shown at The Times BFI

London Film Festival, as

will Lions For Lambs,

another movie featuring

Mr Garfield — it stars

Meryl Streep and Tom

Cruise, and is directed by

Robert Redford.

• Ellen Page, who stars

with Michael Cera, Allison

Janney, Jason Bateman

and Jennifer Garner in

Jason Reitman's delicious,

gentle movie romance,

Juno. Ms Page, 20, is so

good in this film I could

have watched and listened

to her all night.

Even off

the set, her comic timing

and delivery is razor sharp.

I'm not even going to tell

you what this film's about,

except to say a 16-year-old

becomes pregnant — but I

assure you it's about so

much more than that. Look

for it at The Times BFI

London Film Festival.

• Keira Knightley, who

had two films in Toronto,

Atonement (you know I

love it) and Silk, in which

she stars opposite Michael

Pitt. He plays a former soldier who opens up a

mysterious, silk trade

route with Japan. The

movie is a subtle

examination of the

power of love.

Keira, who should be an

Oscar contender for

Atonement, starts filming

The Duchess with Ralph

Fiennes and Hayley Atwell

on Monday. There are 50

filming days and Keira's on

set for 49 of them.

• Tannishtha

Chatterjee, Christopher

Simpson and Satish

Kaushik, who lead director

Sarah Gavron's vision of

Monica Ali's best-selling

novel Brick Lane. Ms

Gavron and her

screenwriters strip the

book of much of its

polemics and focus on

Nazneen, a woman

struggling to find her

own voice in London's

East End. I will never

forget the sad, Willy

Loman-esque quality of Mr

Kaushik's superb

performance as the

husband who has failed in

every aspect of his life. The

film, as I revealed last

week, will be this year's

Royal Film Performance.

• Justin Chadwick, who

has been asked by

film company

Working Title to bring — at

long last — Sebastian

Faulks' searing World

War I novel Birdsong to

the big screen. He will

start shooting Abi

Morgan's screenplay

next year. There's no

casting yet.

Meanwhile, Mr Chadwick,

who made the brilliant

BBC drama Bleak House, is

finishing his film The Other

Boleyn Girl with Natalie

Portman, Scarlett

Johansson and Eric Bana.

There has been a lot of

additional filming and

post-production work, but

I hope we'll see it late this

year or early 2008.

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