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The Deep Blue Sea – BFI London Film Festival Day Fourteen
After 16 days of non-stop cinematic action, the London Film Festival sadly draws to a close with The Deep Blue Sea, the new feature from the wonderful Terence Davies. This year’s festival opened with a Rachel Weisz feature and is closing with one too. Weisz stars [Read More]
Trishna – BFI London Film Festival Day Nine
Director Michael Winterbottom’s irrevocable admiration and love for Thomas Hardy’s novels is often forgotten when one studies his filmography. The director is famous for making graphic and unnerving features such as the wonderful The Killer Inside Me back in 2010. The [Read More]
Hors Satan – BFI London Film Festival Day Eight
SAT 22 OCTOBER – 5.45 PM VUE5 The last few art house pictures I have caught at this year’s festival have all had pacing issues. Running time is a dramatically important aspect of cinema-viewing and films which outstay their welcome can quickly become tedious for a [Read More]
Hors Satan – BFI London Film Festival Day Eight
SAT 22 OCTOTBER – 5.45 PM VUE LEICESTER SQUARE The last few art house pictures I have caught at this year’s festival have all had pacing issues. Running time is a dramatically important aspect of cinema-viewing and films which outstay their welcome can quickly [Read More]
The Dish and the Spoon – BFI London Film Festival Day Seven
FRI 21 OCTOBER – 9 PM RITZY American writer and director Alison Bagnall was best know for Buffalo 66 (1998) up until now! This Independent artist stays close to her roots in her newest venture. Filming with a very small and intimate cast and crew of 5, Bagnall [Read More]
How to Re-establish a Vodka Empire – BFI London Film Festival Day Seven
FRI 21ST OCTOBER – 7 PM STUDIO SAT 22ND OCTOBER – 2.15 PM BFI SOUTHBANK NFT2 They say that nothing is more interesting than your own family history. Some subscribe to websites hoping to find a wealthy relative tucked away somewhere. However others, like amateur [Read More]
Lotus Eaters – BFI London Film Festival Day Six
THU 20 OCTOBER – 3 PM BFI SOUTHBANK NFT1 SAT 22 OCTOBER – 4.30 PM RITZY Included in this year’s New British Cinema section, Lotus Eaters follows a hedonistic group of 20-year-olds in west London living the bohemian dream. In Greek mythology the lotus-eaters are a [Read More]
Michael – BFI London Film Festival 2011 Day Six
SUN 23RD OCTOBER – 4.15 PM CURZON MAYFAIR Tough dramas or features that present harrowing and distressing subject matters are a frequent cog in the film festival cycle, maliciously turning and diverting press and industry in their droves. Amongst these ‘types’ of [Read More]
I’m Carolyn Parker – BFI London Film Festival 2011 Day Six
FRI 21ST OCTOBER – 4 PM CURZON MAYFAIR Acclaimed filmmaker Jonathan Demme is renowned for directed pictures such as The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Philadelphia (1994) so it is intriguing that he has tried his hand at creating a documentary. With tough competition at [Read More]
The Artist – BFI London Film Festival 2011 Day Five
SAT 22ND OCTOBER – 2.45 PM VUE LEICESTER SQUARE Michel Hazanavicius is a French director, producer and screenwriter best know for spy movie parody OSS 117: Cario, Nest of Spies and OSS 117: Lost in Rio. Parody is certainly Hazanavicius’s forteand Jean Dujardin is [Read More]
