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4 Jan 2019

How you can brighten February with music and film

The Ealing Music and Film Festival is back soon for its seventh year of live performances, talks and screenings. And we have teamed up with …

3 Jan 2019

Ealing is a giant film set

What do Brad Pitt, Idris Elba, Sandra Oh, Guy Ritchie, Holly Willoughby, Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine all have in common? They have all …

11 Dec 2018

Reel Life is back: TV and film, from Gomorrah to Guy Ritchie

Hello again film buffs. I’m very sorry for the year-long hiatus. Ealing has been brimming with filming for TV and film this year, so here’s …

8 Nov 2017

Idris is back and jewel thieves were here too

Idris Elba, diamond geezer that he is, makes his second appearance in the illustrious pages of Reel Life. I doubt anyone will object to …

27 Oct 2017

Film tells how Ealing was ‘cradle of British rock’

A new movie is being premiered in November that tells the tale of how 1960s Ealing earned the label ‘the cradle of British rock …

13 Oct 2017

Sir Michael Balcon and the Ealing Studios

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the death of the man who was the head of production at Ealing Studios during its greatest …

30 Jun 2017

Interview: How staying Kurupt Beats the daily Grindah

One of the West London Film Office’s proudest moments was finding an empty flat for People Just Do Nothing’s Kurupt FM pirate radio station …

1 Mar 2017

Horsenden Hill: Saxons, spies and the odd surprise

Horsenden Hill stands tall at the heart of our borough – our largest open space and a part of life, but it is also …

31 Jan 2017

Novel adaptation, Idris Elba and another Catastrophe

Welcome to West London Film Office’s latest Reel Life. We begin with the news that if you are Ian McEwan, which is unlikely, you …

11 Nov 2016

Cinema: Happy ending we were hoping for

Since I became leader of the council in May 2010 I have looked out of my office window and seen the depressing sight of …

23 Sep 2016

A lot of royal Hurley burly and some robotic humans

Anyone working or walking near Ealing Town Hall in mid-September might have noticed The Royals filming for a third series. With the characters in …

8 Jul 2016

You really, really wanna watch this

It is 20 years since the Spice Girls released their breakthrough hit Wannabe. And Ealing Town Hall played a key role in a special …

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Wartime Christmases in Ealing

With Christmas almost upon us, borough archivist Dr Jonathan Oates looks back at years gone by – and a particular local diarist who gave …

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film

How you can brighten February with music and film

Ealing is a giant film set

Reel Life is back: TV and film, from Gomorrah to Guy Ritchie

Idris is back and jewel thieves were here too

Film tells how Ealing was ‘cradle of British rock’

Sir Michael Balcon and the Ealing Studios

Interview: How staying Kurupt Beats the daily Grindah

Horsenden Hill: Saxons, spies and the odd surprise

Novel adaptation, Idris Elba and another Catastrophe

Cinema: Happy ending we were hoping for

A lot of royal Hurley burly and some robotic humans

You really, really wanna watch this

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