Video Diary:
Highlights of Day Four

Festival Diary: Tonight the Odeon West End was host to the British gala screening of "Last Orders", an entertaining adaptation of Graham Swift's Booker Prize-winning novel.

The film features a gallery of major British acting talent which includes no lesser luminaries than Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Tom Courtenay, Ray Winstone, David Hemmings, and Helen Mirren.

Before the screening, we spoke with most the film's cast, the producer Nik Powell, plus invited guests Richard Branson and Ken Livingstone.

"The film is about lifetime friendships," explained Powell. "I'm old enough to know that lifetime friendships are what it's about in life. I was just downstairs with Richard Branson, who is my oldest friend since the age of four. This film is about those kind of friendships."
Watch executive producer Nik Powell talk about the film.
Richard Branson talks about his old friend Nik Powell.

Speaking about making the film, Ray Winstone told us: "I grew up watching Michael Caine, then Bob Hoskins came along, while Tom Courtenay and David Hemmings, they're the cream of our industry. I was a bit distraught because I thought what if they don't live up to the people I want them to be? But they did, they were good old boys and we had fun."
Ray Winstone talks more about the cast of "Last Orders".

"It made me cry," confessed Hoskins, speaking about the first time he saw the film. "There's some lovely bits in it. It's one of those films you either love or it won't mean a thing to you. It's about humanity... it's a very human film."
Stars Bob Hoskins and David Hemmings talks about the film.

We asked Mayor of London Ken Livingstone what the Festival means to the capital. "Not enough. What we are going to try and do over the next few years is build this up so it isn't just the film buffs coming into central London. I'd like to see it reach out into the suburbs so that millions of Londoners could attend the Festival."
What Ken thinks of the Festival.

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