Film Festival: The 57th London Film Festival 2013
The 57th London Film Festival 2013 by Mark Wilshin We’ve travelled the ocean’s waves, gone back in time, into outer space and all across…
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London Film Festival 2013 – Day 12
And so after 12 days and over 250 features from 57 countries, we end where we began – with a Tom Hanks Hollywood blockbuster….
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London Film Festival 2013 – Day 11
After his own particular take on the assassin movie, Jim Jarmusch is reinventing the vampire genre with Only Lovers Left Alive. After the Twilight…
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London Film Festival 2013 – Day 10
Returning to themes of freedom and return, Steve McQueen’s Toronto Film Festival Audience Award winning 12 Years A Slave is set for much bigger…
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London Film Festival 2013 – Day 9
After yesterday’s Don Jon, the sex continues. And most explicitly with Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue is The Warmest Colour – the Palme d’Or winner at…
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London Film Festival 2013 – Day 8
Sex, lies and money are today’s hooks, lines and sinkers, starting with Stephen Frears’ Philomena. Based on the book by former BBC journalist and…
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London Film Festival 2013 – Day 7
Of course, the headline film should really be the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis, but instead I’m choosing Tracks – John Curran’s recreation of…
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London Film Festival 2013 – Day 6
It must be a sign of the times. And combining all those zeitgeisty themes of fathers and sons (Nebraska, Like Father Like Son) and…
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London Film Festival 2013 – Day 5
Freedom, obsession and discrimination, it’s all here. And in Poland, Iran, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sweden and South Africa. First, there’s Jafar Panahi’s Closed Curtain, his fictional…
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London Film Festival 2013 – Day 4
And now it’s time for the heavy hitters. Enter Juliette Binoche and Robert Redford in two equally spare one-handers. In Bruno Dumont’s film it’s…
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London Film Festival 2013 – Day 3
The vogue for monochrome continues with Alexander Payne’s Nebraska. And after Hawaii in The Descendants, Payne ups sticks to another overlooked state, this time…
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London Film Festival 2013 – Day 2
Day two and we hit the ground running (or should that be plummeting) with Alfonso Cuarón’s space chiller Gravity. Starring Sandra Bullock and George…
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London Film Festival: Captain Phillips Opening Night
The London Film Festival opens tonight with Captain Phillips, Tom Hanks bookending the festival with Saving Mr Banks for the closing night gala. And…
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