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Britain’s festival of festivalsRun annually by the British Film Institute Rich Cline has covered the festival every year since 1996 | |||
 62nd London Film Festival 10-21 OCTOBER 2018 at cinemas across London NOTE: I'm travelling this year during the festival so won't be able to run my usual daily blog coverage. But I'll do what I can, and will update this page as I see films... | 2 0 1 8 F E S T I V A L | ||
Opening film: WIDOWSClosing film: STAN & OLLIE Surprise film: tbc Special presentations: AQUARELA, BEEN SO LONG, FAHRENHEIT 11/9, THE HATE U GIVE, THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL, MAKE ME UP, OUT OF BLUE, PETERLOO, RAFIKI, THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD |
Galas:
ASSASSINATION NATION, THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS, BEAUTIFUL BOY, BORDER, BURNING, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME, CAPERNAUM, COLETTE, THE FAVOURITE, THE FRONT RUNNER, THE GREAT VICTORIAN PICTURE SHOW, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK, LIFE ITSELF, THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE, MIRAI, OUTLAW KING, A PRIVATE WAR, ROMA, SUSPIRIA, THE WHITE CROW, WILD ROSE
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AFTER THE SCREAMING STOPSAKASHA ALL THE GODS IN THE SKY ALONE IN SPACE AMIN AMRA AND THE SECOND MARRIAGE EL ANGEL ANGELO AQUARELA ARCTIC ASAKO I & II ASH IS PUREST WHITE 
ASSASSINATION NATION (Levinson, US)
BAD REPUTATION (US)THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS BE NATURAL BEAUTIFUL BOY BEEN SO LONG BEING FRANK: THE CHRIS SIEVEY STORY BELIEVER BENJAMIN BERGMAN: A YEAR IN A LIFE BETWEEN TWO CINEMAS THE BILL MURRAY STORIES BIRDS OF PASSAGE
BISBEE '17 (US)BLAZE 
BORDER (Abbasi, Swe)* THE BREAKER UPPERERS (Aus) THE BROKER BURNING CAM CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? THE CANNIBAL CLUB CAPERNAUM CARMEN AND LOLA CELESTE CHAINED FOR LIFE THE CHAMBERMAID CLADACH
COLETTE (Westmoreland, UK)CONSEQUENCES CRYSTAL SWAN DAUGHTER OF MINE THE DAY I LOST MY SHADOW THE DEAD AND THE OTHERS DEAD PIGS DEAR SON DESTROYER DIAMANTINO DILILI IN PARIS
DOGMAN (Garrone, It)DONBASS DOOZY DOVLATOV DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE (Zahler, Can) DREAM AWAY DUBLIN OLDSCHOOL DUPLICATE ELDORADO THE ELEPHANT QUEEN ETANGS NOIRS EVELYN FAHRENHEIT 11/9 (Moore, US) A FAMILY TOUR THE FAVOURITE (Lanthimos, UK) THE FIGHT FIVE MEN AND A CARAVAGGIO FLORIANOPOLIS DREAM THE FLOWER FREEDOM FIELDS THE FRONT RUNNER GIRL GIRLS OF THE SUN GORDON & PADDY THE GREAT VICTORIAN MOVING PICTURE SHOW THE GREEN FOG THE GUILTY HAPPY AS LAZZARO HAPPY NEW YEAR, COLIN BURSTEAD THE HATE U GIVE HOLIDAY HOLY TOUR HOUSE OF MY FATHERS THE HUMMINGBIRD PROJECT I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS I FEEL GOOD I USED TO BE NORMAL IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (Jenkins, US) THE IMAGE BOOK AN IMPOSSIBLE LOVE IN FABRIC IN THE AISLES IRENE'S GHOST JIM BUTTON AND LUKE THE ENGINE DRIVER JINN JOHN McENROE: IN THE REALM OF PERFECTION JOURNEY TO A MOTHER'S ROOM JOY KEEP GOING THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER KNIFE + HEART LADYWORLD LAST CHILD
LIFE ITSELF (Fogelman, US)THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL LITTLE FOREST |
LIZZIE (Macneill, US)THE LOAD LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT LORDS OF CHAOS MADELINE'S MADELINE MAKE ME UP MAKI'LA THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE
MANDY (Cosmatos, Bel)MANTO MARI MARIA LASSNIG: NEW YORK FILMS 1970-1980 * MAY THE DEVIL TAKE YOU (Ina) MAYA MAYFAIR * MIRAI (Jpn) MIRIAM LIES MONROVIA, INDIANA (Wiseman, US) MR SOUL! MUSEUM NAMDEV BHAU IN SEARCH OF SILENCE NANCY THE NIGHTSHIFTER NO IFS OR BUTS NON-FICTION (Assayas, Fr) OF LOVE & LAW THE OLD MAN AND THE GUN ONLY YOU ORDINARY TIME OUT OF BLUE (Morley, UK) OUTLAW KING (Mackenzie, UK) PACHAMAMA * PAPI CHULO (US) A PARIS EDUCATION PETERLOO (Leigh, UK) PETRA THE PLAN THAT CAME FROM THE BOTTOM UP THE PREY A PRIVATE WAR PROFILE PUTIN'S WITNESSES THE QUAKE THE QUEEN OF FEAR QUIEN TE CANTARA RAFIKI THE RAFT RAJMA CHAWAL RAY & LIZ THE REALM ROMA(Cuaron, Mex) ROSIE RUDEBOY: THE STORY OF TROJAN RECORDS SAUVAGE SCHOOL'S OUT SECOND TIME AROUND SEW THE WINTER TO MY SKIN * SHADOW (Zhang, Chn) SHOCK WAVES: DIARY OF MY MIND SHUT UP AND PLAY THE PIANO THE SISTERS BROTHERS (Audiard, Fr) SOMETIMES ALWAYS NEVER SONI SORRY TO BOTHER YOU (Riley, US) THE SPY GONE NORTH STAN & OLLIE STICKS AND STONES STYX SUBURBAN BIRDS SUMMER THE SUN QUARTET SUNSET * SUPPORT THE GIRLS (US) SURPRISE FILM SURPRISE TREASURE
SUSPIRIA (Guadagnino, It)TEHRAN: CITY OF LOVE THAT TIME OF YEAR THEATRE OF WAR THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD THEY'LL LOVE ME WHEN I'M DEAD THIS TEACHER THREE FACES THUNDER ROAD TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG TOUCH ME NOT TUMBBAD TWENTY-TWO HOURS TWIN FLOWER TWO PLAINS & A FANCY UNITED SKATES UNSETTLING UTOYA: JULY 22 THE VICE OF HOPE VOX LUX (Corbet) VS. WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD'S ON FIRE? THE WHITE CROW WIDOWS THE WILD PEAR TREE WILD ROSE
WILDLIFE (Dano, US)WINTER FLIES WOMAN AT WAR WOMEN MAKE FILM
WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? (Neville, US)YOMEDDINE YOUNG AND ALIVE YOURS IN SISTERHOOD | ||
 61st London Film Festival 4-15 OCTOBER 2017 at cinemas across London Opening film: BREATHE Closing film: THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Surprise film: LADY BIRD 2 0 1 7 A W A R D S : Best Film: LOVELESS Doc (Grierson Award): KINGDOM OF US First Feature (Sutherland Award): THE WOUND BFI Fellowship: Paul Greengrass | R E V I E W E D 2 0 1 7 F I L M S | ||
120 BEATS PER MINUTE (Campillo, Fr)
6 DAYS (Fraser, UK)
78/52 (Philippe, US)
A CIAMBRA (Carpignano, It)
ANCHOR AND HOPE (Marques-Marcet, Sp)
ANGELS WEAR WHITE (Qu, Chn)
ANTONIO LOPEZ 1970: SEX FASHION & DISCO (Crump, US)
APOSTASY (Kokotajlo, UK)
ARCADIA (Wright, UK)
BATTLE OF THE SEXES (Faris/Dayton, US)
BEACH RATS (Hittman, US)
BEAST (Pearce, UK)
BEYOND THE CLOUDS (Majidi, Ind)
BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL (Miike, Jpn)
THE BOY DOWNSTAIRS (Brooks, US)
BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 (Zahler, US)
THE BREADWINNER (Twomey, Ire)
BREATHE (Serkis, UK)
BRIGSBY BEAR (McCary, US)
THE CAKEMAKER (Graizer, Isr)
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (Guadagnino, It)
COLUMBUS (Kogonada, US)
CUSTODY (Legrand, Fr)
DARK RIVER (Barnard, UK)
THE DOUBLE LOVER [L'Amant Double] (Ozon, Fr)
DOWNSIZING (Payne, US)
THE ENDLESS (Benson/Moorhead, US)
FACES
A FANTASTIC WOMAN (Chl)
FELICITE (Gomis, Fr)
FILM STARS DON'T DIE IN LIVERPOOL (McGuigan, UK)
FILMWORKER (Zierra, US)
THE FINAL YEAR (Barker, US)
FIVE FINGERS FOR MARSEILLES (Matthews, SA)
THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Baker, US)
THE FORGIVEN (Joffe, SA)
FOXTROT (Maoz, Isr)
FUNNY COW (Shergold, UK)
GHOST STORIES (Dyson/Nyman, UK)
GOOD MANNERS (Rojas/Dutra, Br)
GOOD TIME (Safdie/Safdie, US)
GRAIN (Kaplanoglu, Tur)
THE GUARDIANS (Beauvois, Fr)
HAPPY END (Haneke, Fr)
HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES (Mitchell, UK)
I AM NOT A WITCH (Nyoni, UK)
INGRID GOES WEST (Spicer, US)
JANE (Morgen, US)
JEUNE FEMME (Serraille, Fr)
THE JOURNEY (Al-Daradji, Irq)
JOURNEY'S END (Dibb, UK)
JOURNEYMAN (Considine, UK) |
THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER (Lanthimos, UK)
LADY BIRD (Gerwig, US)
LAST FLAG FLYING (Linklater, US)
LEAN ON PETE (Haigh, US)
LET THE SUN SHINE IN (Denis, Fr)
LOVELESS (Zvyagintsev, Rus)
LOVING VINCENT (Kobiela/Welchman, UK)
LUCKY (Lynch, US)
MAN HUNT (Woo, Jpn)
MANIFESTO (Rosefeldt, Ger)
THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES (NEW AND SELECTED) (Baumbach, US)
A MOMENT IN THE REEDS (Makela, Fin)
MUDBOUND (Rees, US)
MY FRIEND DAHMER (Meyers, US)
MY GENERATION (Batty, UK)
NICO, 1988 (Nicchiarelli, It)
THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT (Saleh, Swe)
ON CHESIL BEACH (Cooke, UK)
THE PARTY (Potter, UK)
PICKUPS (Thraves, UK)
A PRAYER BEFORE DAWN (Sauvaire, UK)
THE PRINCE OF NOTHINGWOOD (Kronlund, Fr)
PROFESSOR MARSTON AND THE WONDER WOMEN (Robinson, US)
RACER AND THE JAILBIRD (Roskam, Bel)
REDOUBTABLE (Hazanavicius, Fr)
REINVENTING MARVIN (Fontaine, Fr)
THE RIDER (Zhao, US)
RIFT (Thoroddsen, Ice)
ROLLER DREAMS (Hickey, Australia-US)
SATURDAY CHURCH (Cardasis, US)
THE SHAPE OF WATER (del Toro, US)
SICILIAN GHOST STORY (Grassadonia/Piazza, It)
A SORT OF FAMILY (Lerman, Arg)
STRANGLED (Sopsits, Hun)
STRONGER (Green, US)
SWEET COUNTRY (Thornton, Aus)
THELMA (Trier, Nor)
THIS IS OUR LAND (Belvaux, Fr)
THOROUGHBREDS (Finley, US)
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (McDonagh, US)
TIDES (Felber, UK)
WAJIB (Jacir, Pal)
WESTERN (Grisebach, Ger)
WONDERSTRUCK (Haynes, US)
THE WOUND (Trengove, SA)
YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE (Ramsay, UK)
ZAMA (Martel, Arg)* reviews coming | ||
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