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London Film Festival 2025 – Resurrection ★★★★★

Dimitri Kraus — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 02:27:09 +0000

Released: TBC (London Film Festival) Director: Bi Gan Starring: Jackson Yee There’s an enchantingly blissful aura around the works of Bi Gan, as if time just seems to stop for them. At merely 36 years of age, he is a bit of an enigma: seen as a truly prodigious figure in cineaste circles, the dreamy Chinese […]

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Interview With Actress Kani Kusruti (All We Imagine As Light)

Jamie Carlstrand — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 01:52:57 +0000

All We Imagine As Light has proved a darling of this year’s festival season with its history-making Cannes success and acclaimed stop-offs at Toronto and the London Film Festival. In London, I had the pleasure of chatting with its lead, Kani Kusruti, as part of a round table interview for the film. Kusruti plays Prabha, […]

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London Film Festival 2024 – We Live In Time ★★★★

Movie Marker — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 18:49:45 +0000

Released: 1 January 2025 (UK) Director: John Crowley Starring: Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield Reviewed By: Martin Richmond Aside from the usual chatter whenever the Oscars roll around. There was a specific moment during the 95th Academy Awards last year during the presentation of several awards, that set the internet into a fever pitch. Two actors presenting […]

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London Film Festival 2024 – Dahomey ★★★★

Movie Marker — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 18:21:41 +0000

Released: 25 October 2024 Director: Mati Diop Reviewed By: Avanish Chandrasekaran French-Senegalese filmmaker and actress Mati Diop comes from a rich artistic lineage. Born in Paris to famed musician Wasis Diop and French art patron Christine Brossard, she is also the niece of Djibril Diop Mambéty, the director of the Senegalese cinematic landmark Touki Bouki […]

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Official UK Trailer For ‘Apostasy’

Darryl Griffiths — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 23:13:19 +0000

Staying loyal to your faith. Or staying loyal to your family after a religious transgression. The compelling moral dilemma that plagues actresses Siobhan Finneran, Sacha Parkinson and Molly Wright in ‘Apostasy’, the directorial debut of Daniel Kokotajlo which was the winner of the IWC Filmmakers Bursary Award at last year’s BFI London Film Festival. Released on […]

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UK Trailer For ‘Loveless’

Darryl Griffiths — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 13:39:32 +0000

It was the winner of ‘Best Film’ at this year’s BFI London Film Festival. Directed by Leviathan’s Andrey Zvyaginstev. Here is the trailer for ‘Loveless’ starring Maryana Spivak, which is released on 9th February 2018. ‘Zhenya (Maryana Spivak) and Boris (Alexey Rozin) are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already […]

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Loving Vincent

Rehna Azim — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:29:03 +0000

At the premiere of Loving Vincent held, appropriately enough, at the National Gallery I asked Hugh Welchman, the director why he thought genius is often not recognised during the lifetime of its owner. ‘Geniuses see the world in a new way, often contradictory to the culture around them,’ he said. ‘Van Gogh was a revolutionary and with […]

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