Tag: London Film Festival
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…
LFF Review: Courtney Hope Thérond’s new short film ‘Rehearsal’
Courtney Hope Thérond has routinely proven herself a cunning filmmaker, one who can deliver the rawness of intimate human interaction in a closed space. Her…
LFF Review: Our Ladies
Our Ladies is a surprisingly sweet coming-of-age film Did you go to a Catholic school where traditions and strictness rule or did you go to…
More Essential London Film Festival Coverage from Paddy Mulholland at Screen on Screen
Since squatting himself somewhere in the basement of Vue to participate in our London Film Festival podcast, Paddy Mulholland, like so many other LFFers down…
Filmotomy Podcast 90: Live From the London Film Festival
As the London Film Festival land in the thick of it, Filmotomy’s 90th podcast jumps into the event to see what’s shaking. Stuck at home…
LFF Review: The Peanut Butter Falcon
“Friends are the family you chose”. Only six words but so much truth behind them. It’s not only applicable for each one of us but…
LFF Review: The Lodge / Tremors / The Whistlers
For me, the biggest surprise of the London Film Festival thus far hasn’t been something I’ve seen on a cinema screen, but something I’ve discovered…
