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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 | |||
 60th London Film Festival 5-16 OCTOBER 2016 at cinemas across London
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Opening film:A UNITED KINGDOM Closing film: FREE FIRE Surprise Film: SULLY Headline Galas: THE BIRTH OF A NATION. LA LA LAND. MANCHESTER BY THE SEA. NOCTURNAL ANIMALS. SNOWDEN. 2 0 1 6 A W A R D S : Best Film: CERTAIN WOMEN Doc (Grierson Award): STARLESS DREAMS First Feature (Sutherland Award): Julia Ducournau (RAW) BFI Fellowship: Steve McQueen |
RICH'S BEST OF THE FEST 2016:
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ADIEU BONAPARTEAFTER LOVE 
AFTER THE STORM (Kore-eda, Jpn)ALL OF A SUDDEN
ALL THIS PANIC (Gage, US)
AMERICAN HONEY (Arnold, US)AN INSIGNIFICANT MAN APPRENTICE * AQUARIUS 
ARRIVAL (Villeneuve, US)ASCENT THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE THE B SIDE THE BACCHUS LADY THE BAIT BARAKAH MEETS BARAKAH BEAT THE DEVIL
BEING 17 (Techine, Fr)A BILLION COLOUR STORY
THE BIRTH OF A NATION (Parker, US)
BLEED FOR THIS (Younger, US)BLUE VELVET REVISITED BORN IN FLAMES BOUNDARIES
BRIMSTONE (Koolhoven, Ned)BY THE TIME IT GETS DARK CALLBACK
CERTAIN WOMEN (Reichardt, US)CHAMELEON CHASING ASYLUM
CHI-RAQ (Lee, US)
CHRISTINE (Campos, US)
CITY OF TINY LIGHTS (Travis, UK)CLASH CONFESSIONS TO THE MIRROR CREEPY
DANCER (Cantor, UK)
A DARK SONG (Gavin, Ire)A DATE FOR MAD MARY DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST
DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE (Nguyen/Barnes/Neergaard-Holm, US)DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME A DAY FOR WOMEN THE DAY WILL COME DEAREST SISTER THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV DIVINES
DOG EAT DOG (Schrader, US)DON'T BLINK: ROBERT FRANK DON'T CALL ME SON DON'T THINK TWICE DOWN UNDER THE DREAMED ONES
THE EAGLE HUNTRESS (Bell, UK)EGLANTINE
ELLE (Verhoeven, Fr)
ETHEL & ERNEST (Mainwood, UK)EXPRMNTL
THE EYES OF MY MOTHER (Pesce, US)FANNY'S JOURNEY FAROUK, BESIEGED LIKE ME FIORE FONKO
FRANTZ (Ozon, Fr)
FREE FIRE (Wheatley, UK)FURTHER BEYOND THE FURY OF A PATIENT MAN GEORGE BEST: ALL BY HIMSELF
THE GHOUL (Tunley, UK)THE GIANT GLEASON GOLDSTONE
GRADUATION (Mungiu, Rom)THE GRADUATION
THE HANDMAIDEN (Park, Kor)
THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MAKI (Kaurismaki, Fin)HAVE YOU SEEN MY MOVIE?
HEAL THE LIVING (Quillevere, Fr)HEDI HELL DRIVERS HEMA HEMA: SING ME A SONG WHILE I WAIT
HERMIA & HELENA (Pineiro, Arg)HISSEIN HABRE: A CHADIAN TRAGEDY HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM!
I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER (O'Brien, Ire)I CALLED HIM MORGAN I HAD NOWHERE TO GO IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE CITY
INDIVISIBLE (De Angelis, It)
THE INNOCENTS (Fontaine, Pol)INTERCHANGE
INTO THE FOREST (Marchand, Fr)
IT'S ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD (Dolan, Can)JEWEL'S CATCH ONE A JOURNEY THROUGH FRENCH CINEMA JUNCTION 48 JUNOON KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE KILLS ON WHEELS
KING COBRA (Kelly, US)KING OF JAZZ
LA LA LAND (Chazelle, US)
LADY MACBETH (Oldroyd, UK)LAKE BODOM
THE LAST LAUGH (Pearlstein, US)LAYLA M LE CIEL FLAMAND LETTERS FROM BAGHDAD
THE LEVELLING (Leach, UK)LIFE AFTER LIFE
LION (Davis, Aus)THE LIVES OF THERESE
LO AND BEHOLD, REVERIES OF THE CONNECTED WORLD (Herzog, US)
LONDON TOWN (Borte, UK)LOST IN PARIS LOUIS & LUCA: THE BIG CHEESE RACE LOVESONG LOVETRUE LUPE UNDER THE SUN |
MA' ROSA (Mendoza, Ph)MAGNUS THE MAN FROM MO'WAX
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (Lonergan, US)
MASCOTS (Guest, US)MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT MERCENARY MIDWESTERN PARABLES MIFUNE: THE LAST SAMURAI MIMOSAS
MINDHORN (Foley, UK)MINUTE BODIES: THE INTIMATE WORLD OF F PERCY SMITH
MIRZYA (Mehra, Ind)MODERATION
A MONSTER CALLS (Bayona, UK)
MOONLIGHT (Jenkins, US)A MOVING IMAGE
MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE (Barras, Fr)
NERUDA (Larrain, Chl)
LA NOCHE (Castro, Arg)NOCTURAMA
NOCTURNAL ANIMALS (Ford, US)THE NOONDAY WITCH ON CALL
ON THE MILKY ROAD (Kusturica, Ser)ON THE OTHER SIDE ON THE ROAD ONE WEEK AND A DAY ONE-EYED JACKS ORANGE SUNSHINE
THE ORNITHOLOGIST (Rodrigues, Por)OVARIAN PSYCOS PARK
THE PASS (Williams, UK)
PATERSON (Jarmusch, US)PATIENT
PERSONAL SHOPPER (Assayas, Fr)PHANTOM BOY
PLANETARIUM (Zlotowski, Fr)PLAYGROUND * PORTO
PREVENGE (Lowe, UK)PSYCHONAUTS, THE FORGOTTEN CHILDREN PYROMANIAC
QUEEN OF KATWE (Nair, SA)
A QUIET PASSION(Davies, UK)RARA RAW
THE RED TURTLE (de Wit, Fr)* THE REHEARSAL THE REUNION THE REVOLUTION WON'T BE TELEVISED RICHARD LINKLATER: DREAM IS DESTINY ROCK DOG RODNYE: CLOSE RELATIONS SAFARI
THE SALESMAN (Farhadi, Irn)SCARRED HEARTS SCRIBE THE SECRET SCRIPTURE 76 SHOT! THE PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL MANTRA OF ROCK SIERANEVADA SKY LADDER: THE ART OF CAI GUO-QIANG THE SMALL WORLD OF SAMMY LEE SMOKE & MIRRORS
SNOWDEN (Stone, US)THE SON OF JOSEPH
SOUVENIR (Defurne, Bel)THE SPACE IN BETWEEN: MARINA ABRAMOVIC AND BRAZIL
SPACESHIP (Taylor, UK)STARLESS DREAMS
STAYING VERTICAL (Guiraudie, Fr)STOCKHOLM MY LOVE STOPOVER
THE STUDENT (Serebrennikov, Rus)
SULLY (Eastwood, US)
SWEET DREAMS (Bellocchio, It)
TAEKWONDO (Berger, Arg)TEN YEARS
THEIR FINEST (Scherfig, UK)
THESE DAYS (Piccioni, It)
13TH (DuVernay, US)THIS IS COLOUR THOSE WHO JUMP TICKLING GIANTS
TONI ERDMANN (Ade, Ger)TOWER TRAMONTANE
TRESPASS AGAINST US (Smith, UK)
TROLLS (Mitchell, US)TWO LOVERS AND A BEAR
UNA (Andrews, UK)
A UNITED KINGDOM (Asante, SA)UNITED STATES OF LOVE THE UNKNOWN GIRL
THE UNTAMED (Escalante, Mex)THE VOID
VOYAGE OF TIME (Malick, US)THE WAILING THE WAR SHOW WE ARE X THE WEDDING RING WHAT'S IN THE DARKNESS WHITE COLOUR BLACK
WHO'S GONNA LOVE ME NOW (Heymann/Heymann, Isr)WILD WITHOUT NAME WOLF AND SHEEP A WOMAN OF THE WORLD
THE WOMAN WHO LEFT (Diaz, Ph)
A WOMAN'S LIFE (Brize, Fr)WOMEN WHO KILL WORLDLY GIRL THE WORTHY WULU YELLOW FLOWERS ON THE GREEN GRASS YOU ARE MY SUNDAY THE YOUNG OFFENDERS YOUR NAME ZIP AND ZAP AND THE CAPTAIN'S ISLAND ZOOLOGY | ||
 59th London Film Festival 7-18 OCTOBER 2015 at cinemas across London Opening film: SUFFRAGETTE Closing film: STEVE JOBS Centrepiece Gala: THE LADY IN THE VAN Surprise Film: ANOMALISA 2 0 1 5 A W A R D S : Best Film: CHEVALIER Doc (Grierson Award): SHERPA First Feature (Sutherland Award): THE WITCH BFI Fellowship: Cate Blanchett BFI Ambassador: Tom Hiddleston | R E V I E W E D 2 0 1 5 F I L M S | ||
ALIGARH (Mehta, Ind)
ANOMALISA (Kaufman/Johnson, US)
ARABIAN NIGHTS (Gomes, Por)
THE ASSASSIN (Hou, Chn)
BANG GANG (A MODERN LOVE STORY) (Husson, Fr)
BEASTS OF NO NATION (Fukunaga, US)
BEEBA BOYS (Mehta, Can)
A BIGGER SPLASH (Guadagnino, It)
BLACK MASS (Cooper, US)
BLOOD OF MY BLOOD (Bellocchio, It)
BONE TOMAHAWK (Zahler, US)
THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT (Van Dormael, Bel)
BRAND: A SECOND COMING (Timoner, UK)
BROOKLYN (Crowley, Ire)
BURN BURN BURN (Button, UK)
CAROL (Haynes, US)
CHEMSEX (Fairman/Gogarty, UK)
CHEVALIER (Tsangarai, Gr)
CHRONIC (Franco, US)
CLOSET MONSTER (Dunn, Can)
THE CLUB (Larrain, Chl)
COUPLE IN A HOLE (Geens, UK)
THE DAUGHTER (Stone, Aus)
DEPARTURE (Steggall, UK)* DESIERTO
DHEEPAN (Audiard, Fr)
ELSTREE 1976 (Spira, UK)
EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT (Guerra, Col)
THE ENDLESS RIVER (Hermanus, SA)
THE FEAR OF 13 (Sington, UK)
THE FORBIDDEN ROOM (Maddin, Can)
FRANCOFONIA (Sokurov, Fr)
FROM A TO B (Mostafa, UAE)
FROM AFAR (Vigas, Ven)
GOLD COAST (Dencik, Den)
GOOSEBUMPS (Letterman, US)
GRANDMA (Weitz, US)
GREEN ROOM (Saulnier, US)
HE NAMED ME MALALA (Guggenheim, US)
HEART OF A DOG (Anderson, US) |
HIGH-RISE (Wheatley, UK)
HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT (Jones, Fr)
I AM BELFAST (Cousins, UK)
THE INVITATION (Kusama, US)
JAMES WHITE (Mond, US)
THE LADY IN THE VAN (Hytner, UK)
LISTEN TO ME MARLON (Riley, UK)
LIVE FROM NEW YORK! (Nguyen, US)
THE LOBSTER (Lanthimos, Ire)
MEN & CHICKEN (Jensen, Den)
MY SKINNY SISTER (Lenken, Swe)
NASTY BABY (Silva, US)
THE ONES BELOW (Farr, UK)
OUR LITTLE SISTER (Kore-Eda, Jpn)
PARTISAN (Kleiman, Aus)
A PERFECT DAY (de Aranoa, Sp)
THE PROGRAM (Frears, UK)
QUEEN OF EARTH (Perry, US)* RATTER
REMAINDER (Fast, UK)
ROOM (Abrahamson, Ire)
RUBEN GUTHRIE (Cowell, Aus)
SHERPA (Peedom, Aus)
SON OF SAUL (Nemes, Hun)
STEVE JOBS (Boyle, US)
SUFFRAGETTE (Gavron, UK)
SUNSET SONG (Davies, UK)
THE SURVIVALIST (Fingleton, UK)
TAKE ME TO THE RIVER (Sobel, US)
TANGERINE (Baker, US)
TAXI TEHRAN (Panahi, Irn)
TRUMAN (Gay, Sp)
TRUMBO (Roach, US)
TRUTH (Vanderbilt, US)
VICTORIA (Schipper, Ger)
THE WAVE (Uthaug, Nor)
WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE (Yonebayashi, Jpn)
THE WITCH (Eggers, US)
YOUTH (Sorrentino, It)* reviews coming | ||
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