BFI LFF 2016: Some of the Best of the Rest
The 60th BFI London Film Festival in October 2016 screened around 250 features from 74 countries over 12 days at 15 venues all over…
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BFI LFF 2016: It’s Only The End Of The World (2016)
Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only The End Of The World is an intense, melodramatic family drama around the lunch table. It’s Only The End Of…
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BFI LFF 2016: FREE FIRE (2016)
Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire is a Tarantino-esque splatterfest of bullets and bad jokes. Free Fire CAUTION: Here be spoilers In a warehouse in Boston…
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BFI LFF 2016: Lion (2016)
Garth Davis’s Lion is a gripping, unsentimental adaptation of Saroo Brierley’s moving memoir. Film Title CAUTION: Here be spoilers Dev Patel carries the film…
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BFI LFF 2016: PATERSON (2016)
Jim Jarmusch celebrates the extraordinariness of ordinary life in Paterson. Paterson CAUTION: Here be spoilers Director Jim Jarmusch makes the ordinary look extraordinary in…
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BFI LFF 2016: Staying Vertical (2016)
★★★☆☆
As a scriptwriter turns shepherd, Alain Guiraudie’s Rester Vertical reveals an existence of fear and lusting in the Midi-Pyrénées.
BFI LFF 2016: THEIR FINEST (2016)
★★★★☆
Danish director Lone Scherfig’s Their Finest is a very British romcom.
BFI LFF 2016: A Quiet Passion (2016)
★★★★☆
A portrait of the poet as a young revolutionary, Terence Davies’ Emily Dickinson biopic A Quiet Passion sees a fiercely independent woman martyred.
BFI LFF 2016: THE BIRTH OF A NATION (2016)
★★★☆☆
The Birth of a Nation is director Nate Parker’s emotional condemnation of America’s brutal history of slavery through the true story of one man who led a rebellion.
BFI LFF 2016: ARRIVAL (2016)
★★★★☆
Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival is a highly original, thrilling and mind-boggling take on close encounters.
BFI LFF 2016: LA LA LAND (2016)
★★★★☆
Whiplash director Damien Chazelle’s La La Land is a bittersweet musical love letter to Hollywood and Los Angeles.
BFI LFF 2016: Toni Erdmann (2016)
★★★☆☆
A feelgood father-and-daughter comedy, Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann sees the joylessness of the corporate world undone by paternal clowning.
Sembène! (2015)
★★★★☆
The life and times of Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene, Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman’s Sembene! packs a powerful punch.
BFI LFF 2016: The Handmaiden (2016)
★★★★☆
A sumptuous new adaptation of Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith, Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden is a dazzling tale of duplicity and deception.