Category: London Film Festival
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LFF 2020: Mangrove Review
Jonathan Gleneadie Throughout his career as an artist and filmmaker, Steve McQueen has confronted…
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LFF: By the Grace of God
Shades of grey are present in this tale of good and evil. Francois Ozon takes…
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London Film Festival 2018: Pike in the Oscar race? A Private War reviewed
Of all of the writerly trades, there is a nobility associated to one branch that…
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London Film Festival 2018: They Shall Not Grow Old – Peter Jackson’s finest hour?
There might be mutterings of mild, but respectful indifference over another WWI documentary being released.…
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London Film Festival 2018: Dano’s Delight. Directorial debut Wildlife steers standout performances from Mulligan and Gyllenhaal
Have we not been here before? The stolid, oppressive climate of the 1950s is surely…
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London Film Festival 2018: Is Steve McQueen the most misanthropic filmmaker at work today? Widows reviewed.
Widows is something of a stylistic gear change for a British filmmaker whose career has…
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Exclusive Interview: Director Vicenzo Marra on ‘Equilibrium’ at London Film Festival 2017
A priest returns to his Neapolitan homestead after many years away. In picking up his…
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AlphaGo review – London Film Festival 2017
Documentarian Greg Kohs has a history of tracking very human stories. He did so in…
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Breathe – London Film Festival 2017
Andy Serkis’s directorial debut charts a topic so worthy and decent that it’s a real…
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La La Land – London Film Festival 2016
The exhilaration. The exquisite execution. The exemplary double act. The visceral vitality of Whiplash as…