Tag: London Film Festival
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: Shadow Country / Krajina ve stínu (Bohdan Sláma)
The harrowing, unimaginable consequences of war might well be a sub-genre of its own. Personal trauma, physical injuries, a life-long toll. While fuzzing helicopter propellers…
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: Relic (Natalie Erika James)
In 2018, at our very own Femme Filmmakers Festival, a spooky film of just 9 minutes captured chilling themes of aging isolation and childhood relics….
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: Honeymood (Talya Lavie)
Sometimes there’s nothing like a guitar strumming to set the scene and envisage a sense of humour. Talya Lavie‘s Israeli film, Honeymood, has enough organic…
LFF Review: Herself (Phyllida Lloyd)
Herself is a tale of the highs and lows in the life of Dublin based mother Sandra, who is a domestic abuse victim who finds…
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 Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane)
Indian filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane‘s second feature to return to the London Film Festival, The Disciple, opens with a classical vocal chorus inter-cutting between two men…
LFF Review: Mogul Mowgli (Bassam Tariq)
In Bassam Tariq‘s first fiction feature film, Mogul Mowgli, his central character comes alive during his rap battles with other like-minded, energised young men. In…
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…
LFF Review: Calm With Horses
Set deep in the heart of rural Ireland, Douglas ‘Arm’ Armstrong (Cosmo Jarvis) is a lapdog and personal nose-buster for The Devers, a notorious drug-dealing…
LFF Review Round-Up as we say Goodbye for Another Year
The Deathless Woman Crimes buried in the shallow graves of the recent past rise to the surface of the poisoned earth, carrying with them the…
