Author: Joseph Bullock
Sex, Lies, and Film Stock: ‘The Color Wheel’ 10 Years On
It’s hard to talk about The Color Wheel – almost impossible to talk about without spoiling. While undoubtedly a movie that inspires strong reactions, it…
‘Treasures’ Section of the London Film Festival
In addition to the number of exciting new screenings at the BFI London Film Festival this year, are three ‘Treasures’. Meticulous restorations of older works…
LFF Interview: Arie and Chuko Esiri talk about their startling emigration story Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)
Arie and Chuko Esiri’s debut feature Eyimofe (This Is My Desire) is a bold, superbly directed diptych of two Nigerians planning to emigrate from Lagos….
LFF Review: Possessor (Brandon Cronenberg)
In a world where the sordid inhumanity of corporate dealings has become literalised in transactions of murder and blood, Tasya Vos (Andrea Riseborough) is a…
LFF Review: Zanka Contact (Ismaël El Iraki)
Zanka Contact is a film deliberately built upon clichés. Its protagonists, Rajaes (Khansa Batma) and Larsen (Ahmed Hammoud) are a prostitute and a faded, drug-addicted guitarist…
LFF Review: David Byrne’s American Utopia (Spike Lee)
I had a few thoughts after the first song of American Utopia finished. The first was a sort of awe at Spike Lee’s direction, which…
LFF Review: Another Round / Druk (Thomas Vinterberg)
Mads Mikkelsen and Thomas Vinterberg seem made for each other. Building from the dizzyingly visceral realism of his early masterpiece Festen (1998), Vinterberg has always…
LFF Review: Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross)
It is often said that hanging out with drunk people is unbearable when you’re sober. Drunkenness is a different state of being: it permits things…
LFF Review: This Is My Desire [Eyimofe] (Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri)
Arie and Chuko Esiri‘s first feature is a uniquely elegant one. It signals the start, I hope, of two brilliant careers. Indeed, the sheer artfulness…
LFF Review: 180 Degree Rule (Farnoosh Samadi)
Farnoosh Samadi’s feature debut is a chilling, quietly brutal drama that examines the real-life tensions caused by patriarchal society. Set in and around Tehran, Iran’s…
LFF Review: The Painter and the Thief – A Strange But Touching Tribute to a Singular Friendship
Many great film titles dilute their characters into basic descriptors: Stalker, The Graduate, Bicycle Thieves, The Passenger. All these examples attempt to define human lives…
London Film Festival 2020 Programme Lineup Announced
The BFI have revealed the full lineup of the latest London Film Festival, which is set to take place from 7-18 October 2020 in a…
