London Film Festival 2014: My Old Lady
My Old Lady by Alexa Dalby Kevin Kline shines as Mathias (Jim) Gold, a boorish American in Paris, just short of his 57th birthday….
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London Film Festival 2014: A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night by Alexa Dalby The title implies a female in danger but this film reverses those expectations. The…
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London Film Festival 2014: The Keeping Room
The Keeping Room The Keeping Room is an unbearably suspenseful feminist revision of the siege story, overturning our expectations by varying the power dynamics…
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London Film Festival 2014: Rosewater
Rosewater by Alexa Dalby In US satirist Jon Stewart’s clever debut as director and co-screenwriter, Mexican Gail Garcia Bernal stars in the true story…
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London Film Festival 2014: A Hard Day
A Hard Day by Alexa Dalby For Police Detective Ko (Korean star Seon-gyun Lee), it’s been one of those days – and nights. Speeding…
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Festival Review: Court
★★★★★
Exposing India’s labyrinthine judicial system, Chaitanya Tamhane’s debut feature Court brings a slow dread to the impossibility of justice.
London Film Festival 2014: Mr Turner
Mr Turner Mike Leigh’s dazzling biopic of one of Britain’s most celebrated and controversial artists, JMW Turner, in the last 25 years of his…
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Effie Gray (2014)
★★★★☆
A sumptuously shot, intelligently-scripted drama about the ill-matched marriage of critic and artist John Ruskin and the much younger, beautiful Effie Gray.
London Film Festival 2014: Hockney
Hockney by Alexa Dalby Hockney is the definitive biography of Britain’s most influential and popular contempory artist. For the first time, David Hockney has…
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London Film Festival 2014: Björk Biophilia Live
Björk Biophilia Live by Alexa Dalby A film of Björk’s live stage show that formed part of her multimedia Biophilia project, these 97 minutes…
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London Film Festival 2014: The Imitation Game
The Imitation Game Benedict Cumberbatch gives an Oscar-worthy performance in Morten Tyldrum’s (Headhunters) well-structured and scripted (Graham Moore), gripping biopic of Alan Turing, now…
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Wish I Was Here (2014)
★★★☆☆
Zack Braff stars in a tear-jerking comedy which shows that trying to follow your dreams and coming to terms with real life may not be incompatible after all.
Pride (2014)
★★★★☆
Two very disparate communities forge an unexpected bond when a London gay and lesbian group supports a village of Welsh miners during the 1984/5 Miners’ Strike.
COMING SOON: The 58th BFI London Film Festival 2014
This year’s BFI London Film Festival promises to be one of the most exciting yet. It has a stunning line-up of the best of the festival winners and new work from around the world: and its scheduling in October is at a crucially important time in the run-up to the awards season.
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