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    PAFF 2013 Review - 'Dreams Of A Life' (Harrowing Reconstruction Of A Life From Fragments)

    By now I’m sure we’re all familiar with the story, even if it’s just the broad details of it – young woman dies in her apartment and her body isn’t discovered for a good 3 years, as it lay there putrefying – which actually sounds like it could be a pitch for ...

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    Channel 4 College Comedy 'Fresh Meat' (Zawe Ashton) To Get Big-Screen Treatment

    The popular Channel 4 comedy Fresh Meat will one day be in a movie theater near you, according to The Sun.

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    Sky Arts' 'Playhouse Presents . . . Psychobitches' (Featuring Zawe Ashton, Sharon D. Clarke)

    And following Tambay's earlier post on Sky Arts' Playhouse Presents . . .

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    Zawe Ashton, 'Dreams Of A Life' Receive British Independent Film Awards nominations

    Congrats to Zawe Ashton and Carol Morley for their British Independent Film Awards nominations; Ashton in the Most Promising Newcomer category, although, as Emmnanuel argued in a previous post (HERE), Ashton's been around a bit to be called a newcomer at this point; and ...

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    New On DVD - Channel 4 Comedy Series 'Fresh Meat' (Zawe Ashton Co-Stars)

    Just as the second series of Channel 4's hit university-set comedy Fresh Meat is beginning, series one has been released on DVD in the U.K.  Co-star Zawe Ashton's break-out performance as slacker-student Vod is reason enough to pick this up.

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    Michelle Asante, Zawe Ashton Returning To UK TV In Dramas 'Monroe', 'Case Histories'

    TV viewers in the U.K. will once again get the chance to see actors Michelle Asante and Zawe Ashton in their respective supporting roles on the second series broadcasts of ITV's Monroe and BBC's Case Histories for the upcoming television season.

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    Review - 'Dreams Of A Life' (A Harrowing Reconstruction Of A Life From Collected Fragments)

    With Carol Morley's Dreams Of A Life finally opening in USA theaters today, August 3rd, courtesy of Strand Releasing, Here's my review of the film from February, when I first saw it.

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    Zawe Ashton Talks To S&A About 'Dreams Of A Life,' Industry Struggles, Opportunities, Making It All Work

    With Carol Morley's Dreams Of A Life finally opening in USA theaters tomorrow, August 3rd, courtesy of Strand Releasing, we thought it would be a good idea to repost our interview with the star of the film, Zawe Ashton, originally posted in December of last year, before all the Dreams Of A ...

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    Strand Acquires USA Rights To 'Dreams Of A Life' For Release In August

    Finally, a USA distributor picks up this film...

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    "Remember Us?" Leading Ladies Of Color In British Cinema History

    There's been a lot of recent Internet chatter about the upcoming sports drama Fast Girls, and how it features the first lead performance by a black actress in a British film.  Not to take anything away from actress Lenora Crichlow, but that just isn't so.

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