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The BFI London Film Festival Announces Full 2018 Lineup

August 30, 2018 10:03 am

Yesterday, we reported on the shortlist of films that have been chosen to compete in the Official Competition at the BFI London Film Festival. However, outside of those select films, which featured some of the ...

Ben Wheatley’s Surprise New Film Headlines BFI London Film Festival’s Official Competition Slate

Charles Barfield

August 29, 2018 10:13 am

Festivals, News

With Venice, Toronto, and Telluride becoming this fall’s go-to places to premiere a film, we had no idea that the BFI London Film Festival had an ace up its sleeve. Today, the LFF announced its lineup of films ...

Steve McQueen’s ‘Widows’ To Open The BFI London Film Festival In October

Charles Barfield

July 12, 2018 9:44 am

Festivals, News

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The BFI London Film Festival has announced their opening night gala film, and it’s a doozy. Dubbed the “international premiere,” Steve McQueen’s highly anticipated film, "Widows," will be the festivals opening ...

The 5 Best Films Of The 2017 BFI London Film Festival

Oliver Lyttelton

October 16, 2017 11:36 am

Features, Festivals, News

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Another year, another BFI London Film Festival — fifteen years since the first one I attended as a sixteen-year-old, and my ninth year of covering as press for The Playlist. And I think I may have finally crack...

Benson & Moorhead’s ‘The Endless’ Is An Ambitious, Original Horror Pic [BFI London Film Fest Review]

Oliver Lyttelton

October 14, 2017 1:13 pm

Festivals, Reviews

It’s been an incredibly exciting half-decade or so in terms of the emergence of new horror directors. It seems barely a month or two goes by without some immensely talented filmmaker emerging from the genre and...

Blistering, Bleak ‘Angels Wear White’ Takes On Patriarchal Cultures [BFI London Film Fest Review]

Andrew Crump

October 13, 2017 5:03 pm

News, Reviews

Vivian Qu’s new film, “Angels Wear White,” couldn’t come to us at a better or worse time, depending on your point of view. In last week and a half or so, torrents of reports about the deserved fall of movie mog...

‘Good Manners’ Is The Year’s Best Brazilian Lesbian Werewolf Musical Melodrama [BFI London Film Fest Review]

Oliver Lyttelton

October 13, 2017 12:19 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

It's rare to be truly surprised by a movie. Even at a film festival (especially one like the LFF, which mostly screens movies that have picked up buzz elsewhere), you’re often playing catch-up, and even when yo...

Venice Prize Winner ‘Foxtrot’ Is One Of The Year’s Best [BFI London Film Fest Review]

Oliver Lyttelton

October 12, 2017 3:24 pm

News, Reviews

Back in 2009, one of the most notable names to appear on the world film scene was Samuel Maoz. The then-47-year-old filmmaker, a former documentarian, made his feature debut with “Lebanon,” a gripping war drama...

Olivia Cooke & Anya Taylor-Joy Plan A Murder In Excellent ‘Thoroughbreds’ [BFI London Film Fest Review]

Oliver Lyttelton

October 10, 2017 4:59 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Money, goes the saying, can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you pretty much everything else, including an infinite sense of privilege, and an evasion of the justice system. A billionaire can hoodwink millio...

Ruth Wilson & Sean Bean Head Down A ‘Dark River’ For Clio Barnard [BFI London Film Fest Review]

Oliver Lyttelton

October 9, 2017 12:37 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

For the past few decades, gritty arthouse British movies have invariably been an urban affair: from Mike Leigh to “Nil By Mouth” and “Trainspotting”, to “Kidulthood” and “Red Road,” almost every element of cont...

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