The folks over at Empire magazine are well known for keeping their ears to the ground and delivering the best film news to their readers, so it's good to see they've included a great piece on this year's CINECITY:

"Co-curated by the Duke Of York's Picturehouse and the University of Brighton, Cine-City returns for its fifth edition between 15 November and 2 December. In addition to a raft of previews, the programme also includes a tribute to the underrated British director Val Guest and a special focus on the Austrian avant-garde.

A number of the mainstream features have a biographical feel and the most remarkable is Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which stars Mathieu Amalric as Jean-Dominique Bauby, the charismatic editor-in-chief of French Vogue, who developed a blinking alphabet to communicate with the outside world after he was stricken with `locked-in syndrome', following a massive stroke at the age of 43. The theme of acceptance is shared by Kasi Lemmons's Talk to Me, in which Don Cheadle plays Ralph Waldo 'Petey' Greene, who overcame drug addiction and a spell inside for armed robbery to become an advocate for civil rights and one of Washington's most prominent media personalities in the 1960s."

Visit the Empire Festivals and Seasons page to read the entire piece (scroll to the bottom of the page for the link).