Film Review: ANCHOR AND HOPE
Smart and funny, ANCHOR AND HOPE is a bittersweet story about love, life and longing Following the success of his first feature film 10,000 KM, Carlos Marques-Marcet returns to the big screen with ANCHOR AND HOPE, a bittersweet story about love, life and longing. ANCHOR AND HOPE tells the story of lesbian couple Eva (Oona […]
Behind The Scenes: Everything You Need To Know About Being a Red Carpet Reporter
What it’s like to be a Red Carpet Reporter at the London Film Festival If you’ve ever been to a film festival, you’ll know the energy on red carpet is palpable. The talent posing for photos, the fans screaming, the flashing of lights and the scrum of journalists waiting for interviews. From a distance, it […]
BFI #LFF 2017: THE BALLAD OF SHIRLEY COLLINS Film Review
THE BALLAD OF SHIRLEY COLLINS is a touching story of an important voice lost and found Following their award-winning documentary WAY OF THE MORRIS, filmmakers Rob Curry and Tim Plester return to the screen with THE BALLAD OF SHIRLEY COLLINS, a lyrical response to the life and work of folk music icon Shirley Collins. Loosely […]
BFI #LFF 2017: BAD GENIUS Film Review
Tense, pacey and wickedly smart, BAD GENIUS is an exam-heist thriller like you’ve never seen before Whether you’re 16 or 60, almost everyone can remember the pressure of high school exams. But while here in the UK GCSE and A Level results are certainly important, in Thailand good grades mean everything. Good marks on an […]
BFI #LFF 2017: THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT Film Review
Tarik Saleh’s gritty political thriller THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT is a wonderfully tense homage to film noir Fresh from its award-win at the 2017 Sundance Festival, Tarik Saleh brings his gritty political thriller THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT to this year’s London Film Festival. Set against the backdrop of the Egyptian Revolution, THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT […]
BFI #LFF 2017: PROFESSOR MARSTON & THE WONDER WOMEN Film Review
Well-crafted and beautifully shot, PROFESSOR MARSTON & THE WONDER WOMEN is a entertaining biopic about the man behind the world’s most famous female superhero of all time Angela Robinson’s new biopic about the private life of WONDER WOMAN creator Dr William Moulton Marston couldn’t have come at a better time. Following the success of Patty […]
BFI #LFF 2017: THE PARTY Film Review
Funny, potent and deliciously nasty, THE PARTY is a wickedly fast-paced piece of political and personal satire A celebration quickly takes a turn for the worse in Sally Potter razor-sharp new comedy THE PARTY. Shot in beady black and white, THE PARTY opens with Janet (Kristin Scott Thomas), the new appointed Shadow Minister for Health, […]
BFI #LFF 2017: 6 DAYS Film Review
6 DAYS is a taut, introspective and solid re-telling of the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege Director Toa Fraser brings real-life terrorism to the big screen in his new film 6 DAYS, a high-tension thriller based on the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege. Based on true events, 6 DAYS opens with six armed gunmen storming the Iranian Embassy […]
BFI #LFF 2017: LOVING VINCENT Film Review
Created in the style of van Gogh’s paintings, LOVING VINCENT matches extraordinary visual style with richly satisfying storytelling Mystery and art combine in Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman’s new film LOVING VINCENT, the world’s first fully painted feature film about the life and death of the famous Dutch painter. Taking place a year after Vincent […]
BFI #LFF 2017: MEMOIR OF A MURDERER Film Review
Taut, intelligent and unflinchingly dark, MEMOIR OF A MURDERER is an engrossing crime thriller with plenty of twists and turns Following SEVEN DAYS (2007) and THE SUSPECT (2013), director Won Shin-yun returns to the big screen with MEMOIR OF A MURDERER, a twisted Korean tale of fatherly love and killer instinct. Described as “TO CATCH […]