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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 | |||
 64th London Film Festival 7-18 OCTOBER 2020 Opening film: MANGROVE Closing film: AMMONITE
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2 0 2 0 A W A R D S :Audience Award - Film: ANOTHER ROUND Audience Award - Documentary: THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF Audience Award - Short: SHUTTLECOCK Audience Award - XR: TO MISS THE ENDING BFI Bursary: Cathy Brady (WILDFIRE) |
RICH'S BEST OF THE FEST 2020:
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180° RULE (Samadi, Irn)
200 METERS (Nayfeh, Pal) A COMMON CRIME (Marquez, Arg) A DAY-OFF OF KASUMI ARIMURA (Kore-eda, Jpn)
AFRICAN APOCALYPSE (Lemkin, UK)
AFTER LOVE (Khan, UK)
AMMONITE (Lee, UK)
ANOTHER ROUND (Vinterberg, Den)BAD TALES (D'Innocenzo/D'Innocenzo, It)
BLOODY NOSE EMPTY POCKETS (Ross/Ross, US)
CICADA (Fifer/Mulcare, US)
DAYS (Tsai, Tai)
DAVID BYRNE'S AMERICAN UTOPIA (Lee, US)DELIA DERBYSHIRE: THE MYTHS AND LEGENDARY TAPES (Catz, UK) THE DISCIPLE (Tamhane, Ind)
FAREWELL AMOR (Msangi, US)
GENUS, PAN (Diaz, Ph)
GIMME ONE (FitzGerald, UK)GOLD FOR DOGS (Cambet, Fr)
HERSELF (Lloyd, Ire)
HONEYMOOD (Lavie, Isr)
THE HUMAN VOICE (Almodovar, Sp)
I AM SAMUEL (Murimi, Ken)* IDENTIFYING FEATURES (Valadez, Mex)
IF IT WERE LOVE (Chiha, Fr)INDUSTRY (Dunham/Krishnan/Lilly, UK)
THE INTRUDER (Meta, Arg)
KAJILLIONAIRE (July, US)KING OF SANWI (Owusu, Ghn) LEAVE THE EDGES (Akoto, UK)
LIMBO (Sharrock, UK) |
LOVERS ROCK (McQueen, UK)
MANGROVE (McQueen, UK)
MOGUL MOWGLI (Tariq, UK)
NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN (Szumowska, Pol)
NEW ORDER (Franco, Mex)NO GO BACKS (Kahn, US)
NOMADLAND (Zhao, US)
NOTTURNO (Rosi, It)ONE MAN AND HIS SHOES (Bamiro, UK)
ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI... (King, US)
THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF (Ree, Nor)
POSSESSOR (Cronenberg, Can)
THE REASON I JUMP (Rothwell, UK)
RELIC (James, Aus)
ROSE: A LOVE STORY (Sheridan, UK)
THE SALT IN OUR WATERS (Sumit, Ban)SHADOW COUNTRY (Slama, Cz)
SHIRLEY (Decker, US)
SIBERIA (Ferrara, It)
SOUL (Docter, US)SOUND FOR THE FUTURE (Hulse, UK) STRAY (Lo, US) STRIDING INTO THE WIND (Wei, Chn)
SUPERNOVA (Macqueen, UK)THIS IS MY DESIRE (Esiri/Esiri, Nga)
TIME (Bradley, US)ULTRAVIOLENCE (Fero, UK) UNDINE (Petzold, Ger)
WILDFIRE (Brady, UK)
WOLFWALKERS (Moore/Stewart, Ire)ZANKA CONTACT (El Iraki, Fr) | ||
 63rd London Film Festival 2-13 OCTOBER 2019 Opening film: THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD Closing film: THE IRISHMAN Surprise film: UNCUT GEMS 2 0 1 9 A W A R D S : Best Film: MONOS Documentary: WHITE RIOT First Feature: Mati Diop (ATLANTICS) RICH'S BEST OF THE FEST 2019: | R E V I E W E D 2 0 1 9 F I L M S | ||
ABOMINABLE (Culton, US)
THE AERONAUTS (Harper, UK)
AND THEN WE DANCED (Akin, Geo)
THE ANTENNA (Behram, Tur)
ATLANTICS (Diop, Sen)
THE AUSTRALIAN DREAM (Gordon, Aus)
BABYTEETH (Murphy, Aus)
BACURAU (Mendonca/Dornelles, Br)
BAD EDUCATION (Finley, US)
BEANPOLE (Balagov, Rus)
A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD (Heller, US)
BURNING CANE (Youmans, US)
BY THE GRACE OF GOD (Ozon, Fr)
CALM WITH HORSES (Rowland, Ire)
THE CAVE (Fayyad, Syr)
CIRCUS OF BOOKS (Mason, US)
CLEMENCY (Chukwu, US)
THE CLIMB (Covino, US)
COLOR OUT OF SPACE (Stanley, US)
COUNTY LINES (Blake, UK)
CUNNINGHAM (Kovgan, Ger)
DAYS OF THE BAGNOLD SUMMER (Bird, UK)
DEERSKIN (Dupieux, Fr)
DIVINE LOVE (Mascaro, Br)
DON'T LOOK DOWN (Ducastel/Martineau, Fr)
EARTHQUAKE BIRD (Westmoreland, US)
EMA (Larrain, Chl)
END OF THE CENTURY (Castro, Arg)
ETERNAL BEAUTY (Roberts, UK)
FANNY LYE DELIVER'D (Clay, UK)
FIRST LOVE (Miike, Jpn)
GIVE ME LIBERTY (Mikhanovsky, US)
GREED (Winterbottom, UK)
GUEST OF HONOUR (Egoyan, Can)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY (Kahn, Fr)
HARRIET (Lemmons, US)
A HIDDEN LIFE (Malick, Ger)
HONEY BOY (Har'el, US)
HOPE GAP (Nicholson, UK)
I LOST MY BODY (Clapin, Fr)
INVISIBLE LIFE (Ainouz, Br)
THE IRISHMAN (Scorsese, US)
JOJO RABBIT (Waititi, Cz)
JUDY & PUNCH (Foulkes, Aus)
JUST MERCY (Cretton, US)
THE KING (Michod, UK)
THE KINGMAKER (Greenfield, US)
KNIVES OUT (Johnson, US)
KOKO-DI KOKO-DA (Nyholm, Swe)
KRABI, 2562 (Suwichakornpong/Rivers, Tha)
THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO (Talbot, US) |
LE MANS '66 (Mangold, US)
THE LIGHTHOUSE (Eggers, US)
LINGUA FRANCA (Sandoval, US)
LITTLE JOE (Hausner, Aut)
LITTLE MONSTERS (Forsythe, Aus)
LA LLORONA (Bustamante, Gua)
THE LODGE (Franz/Fiala, UK)
LUCE (Onah, US)
MARRIAGE STORY (Baumbach, US)
MARTIN EDEN (Marcello, It)
MATTHIAS & MAXIME (Dolan, Can)
MOFFIE (Hermanus, SA)
MONOS (Landes, Col)
MONSOON (Khaou, UK)
MR JONES (Holland, Pol)
MUSCLE (Johnson, UK)
MYSTIFY: MICHAEL HUTCHENCE (Lowenstein, Aus)
OFFICIAL SECRETS (Hood, UK)
ON A MAGICAL NIGHT (Honore, Fr)
ONLY THE ANIMALS (Moll, Fr)
ORDINARY LOVE (D'Sa/Leyburn, UK)
THE OTHER LAMB (Szumowska, Ire)
THE PAINTED BIRD (Marhoul, Cz)
THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON (Schwartz/Nilson, US)
THE PERFECT CANDIDATE (Mansour, KSA)
THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD (Iannucci, UK)
PINK WALL (Cullen, UK)
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (Sciamma, Fr)
RARE BEASTS (Piper, UK)
REAL (Omoshaybi, UK)
THE REPORT (Burns, US)
RIALTO (Burns, Ire)
ROCKS (Gavron, UK)
ROSE PLAYS JULIE (Molloy/Lawlor, Ire)
RUN (Graham, UK)
SAINT MAUD (Glass, UK)
SAVAGE (Kelly, NZ)
SID & JUDY (Kijak, UK)
SYSTEM CRASHER (Fingscheidt, Ger)
THIS IS NOT BERLIN (Sama, Mex)
TREMORS (Bustamante, Gua)
TWO OF US (Meneghetti, Fr)
THE TWO POPES (Meirelles, It)
UNCUT GEMS (Safdie/Safdie, US)
VIVARIUM (Finnegan, Ire)
WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS (Guerra, It)
WASP NETWORK (Assayas, Fr)
WAVES (Shults, US)
A WHITE, WHITE DAY (Palmason, Ice)
WOUNDS (Anvari, US)
YOU DON'T NOMI (McHale, US)* reviews coming | ||
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