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And so, dear readers, that’s it for another year. We hope you’ve enjoyed our coverage of the festival.
We’ll leave you with some footage of Danny Boyle introducing the cast and crew of Steve Jobs at last night’s Closing Night Gala.
LFF top fives
Here’s Lou Thomas weighing in with his festival favourites…
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
5. Bone Tomahawk
Gruesome but consistently hilarious horror-tinged western for those with a strong stomach. Great to see Kurt Russell firing on all cylinders again.
4. Grandma
Lily Tomlin excels in this heartfelt and funny tale of a septuagenarian lesbian on a mission to help her pregnant granddaughter.
3. Black Mass
Ice-cold Boston-set gangster movie featuring Johnny Depp’s best performance since Donnie Brasco.
2. Carol
A beautiful, moving love story with stunning turns from Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett. Certain to be a big winner come awards season.
Son of Saul (Saul Fia, 2015)
1. Son of Saul
A gruelling masterpiece from debut director László Nemes that should be seen by everyone.
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New three year partnership sees Screen International’s brightest and best future film industry stars unveiled at the BFI London Film Festival
Monday 16 May 2016 -
Miranda Pennell on The Host: ‘Selective memory and partial remembrance is a problem’
Miranda Pennell tells us about her new film, a personal investigation into family history and connections with the Anglo Iranian Oil Company (BP) in which she asks provocative questions about our colonial past.
Friday 11 March 2016 -
Touching the Void producer John Smithson on Sherpa
The BAFTA-winning film and TV producer tells us about his powerful new mountaineering documentary, which won the Best Documentary prize at the 2015 BFI London Film Festival.
Monday 14 December 2015 -
59th BFI London Film Festival award winners
Chevalier wins best film at this year’s awards, and Cate Blanchett receives a BFI Fellowship.
Saturday 17 October 2015 -
How to make your first (silent) movie count
This long tracking shot through a film studio is just one of the ways that the precocious young debut director Anthony Asquith announced his arrival in the 1928 film about filmmaking Shooting Stars.
Wednesday 7 October 2015 -
The year of the strong woman part 2: 10 East Asian women at LFF
This year’s BFI London Film Festival has strong women front and centre, and some of the most kickass of all come from East Asia…
Wednesday 7 October 2015 -
The year of the strong woman part 1: 10 great diverse talents at LFF
In the BFI London Film Festival’s ‘year of the strong woman’, let’s celebrate 10 brilliant directors and actors of colour featured in this year’s programme.
Tuesday 6 October 2015 -
The time Alec Guinness met Fidel Castro
Cuba, 1959. The Batista regime has just been overthrown by Castro and his revolutionaries. Enter Alec Guinness, Noel Coward and Carol Reed to make a film of Graham Greene’s comic spy story Our Man in Havana…
Tuesday 6 October 2015 -
The making of Suffragette: ‘These women are warriors’
Ahead of its grand opening of the 59th BFI London Film Festival, we spoke to director Sarah Gavron and producers Faye Ward and Alison Owen about their ambitious new film about the epic struggles of the suffragettes.
Tuesday 6 October 2015 -
How the battle for women’s suffrage in the early years of the 20th century was captured on film.
Monday 5 October 2015 -
Seven must-see American indie films at LFF
It’s a bumper year for US independent cinema at the BFI London Film Festival, including the new film from the director of Listen Up Philip and a host of impressive debuts.
Monday 5 October 2015 -
Where to begin with Jia Zhangke
With his latest film in this year’s BFI London Film Festival and the man himself appearing on stage and in conversation, now’s a good time to get up to speed with the work of modern Chinese master Jia Zhangke.
Monday 5 October 2015 -
Three to see at LFF if you like... animation
Three hot tickets at this year’s BFI London Film Festival for all animation fans great and small.
Friday 2 October 2015 -
Three to see at LFF if you like... artists’ feature films
Three hot tickets at this year’s BFI London Film Festival for lovers of boundary-pushing films that transform our experience of seeing moving images.
Thursday 1 October 2015 -
10 great Chinese-language films of the 21st century
With dazzling new films from modern masters Jia Zhangke and Johnnie To screening at this year’s BFI London Film Festival, we got to wondering: what are the essential films from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan this decade?
Thursday 1 October 2015 -
Three to see at LFF if you like... comedies
Three hot tickets at this year’s BFI London Film Festival: a film by an established director, a great debut, and a wild card.
Wednesday 30 September 2015 -
Five to see at LFF if you like... LGBT cinema
Carol may be getting the headlines, but there are many more wonderful LGBT films showing at this year’s BFI London Film Festival.
Wednesday 30 September 2015 -
Paolo Sorrentino and Louis Theroux added to Screen Talks and LFF Connects series
The Great Beauty director Paolo Sorrentino will give a Screen Talk at this year’s BFI London Film Festival, while TV broadcaster Louis Theroux and documentary producer Simon Chinn are added to the new series of LFF Connects.
Tuesday 29 September 2015 -
Three to see at LFF if you like... arthouse directors
Three hot tickets at this year’s BFI London Film Festival for a taste of some of the best new world cinema.
Tuesday 29 September 2015 -
Three to see at LFF if you like... films about music
Three hot tickets at this year’s BFI London Film Festival for lovers of music and films about musicians.
Monday 28 September 2015 -
Alien: Isolation creative Alistair Hope joins LFF Connects line-up
Hope joins Laurie Anderson, Guy Maddin, Chris Milk, Christopher Nolan, Tacita Dean and Alexander Horwath in the line-up for LFF Connects, a series of new creative industries talks at the 59th BFI London Film Festival.
Friday 25 September 2015 -
Three documentaries to see at LFF if you like... films about artists
Three hot tickets at this year’s BFI London Film Festival: a film by an established director, a great debut, and a wild card.
Friday 25 September 2015 -
Three to see at LFF if you like... Scandinavian films
Three hot tickets at this year’s BFI London Film Festival: a film by an established director, a great debut, and a wild card.
Wednesday 23 September 2015 -
Jurors include Desiree Akhavan, Clio Barnard, James Kent, Allen Leech, Mark Cousins, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Daisy Jacobs, Shezad Dawood, Tom Green and Runa Islam.
Wednesday 23 September 2015 -
Three to see at LFF if you like... horror
Three hot tickets at this year’s BFI London Film Festival: a film by an established director, a great debut, and a wild card.
Monday 21 September 2015 -
Three to see at LFF if you like... films from the Middle East and North Africa
Three hot tickets at this year’s BFI London Film Festival: a film by an established director, a great debut, and a wild card.
Wednesday 16 September 2015 -
Award-winning filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski to head-up LFF Official Competition jury
The director will be joined by jurors Christine Vachon, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kristin Scott Thomas and Mabel Cheung.
Tuesday 15 September 2015 -
Three to see at LFF if you like... films from India and South Asia
Three hot tickets at this year’s BFI London Film Festival: a film by an established director, a great debut, and a wild card.
Tuesday 15 September 2015 -
Laurie Anderson, Guy Maddin and Chris Milk added to LFF Connects line-up
Wider industry events programme also announced for filmmakers and industry executives.
Monday 14 September 2015 -
Anderson also set to join LFF Connects, the Festival’s new series of thought-provoking talks intended to stimulate new collaborations and ideas.
Monday 14 September 2015 -
Three to see at LFF if you like... German films
Three hot tickets at this year’s BFI London Film Festival: a film by an established director, a great debut, and a wild card.
Friday 11 September 2015 -
Three to see at LFF if you like... films from Eastern Europe
Three hot tickets at this year’s BFI London Film Festival: a film by an established director, a great debut, and a wild card.
Thursday 10 September 2015 -
10 great Japanese films of the 21st century
To celebrate a bumper year for Japanese cinema at the BFI London Film Festival, we look out some of the best movies to come out of Japan since the turn of this century.
Thursday 10 September 2015 -
Three to see at LFF if you like... something to debate afterwards
Three hot tickets at this year’s BFI London Film Festival: a film by an established director, a great debut, and a wild card.
Monday 7 September 2015 -
Three to see at LFF if you like... action and thrills
Three hot tickets at this year’s BFI London Film Festival: a film by an established director, a great debut, and a wild card.
Friday 4 September 2015 -
Three to see at LFF if you like... films from Spain and Latin America
Three hot tickets at this year’s BFI London Film Festival: a film by an established director, a great debut, and a wild card.
Thursday 3 September 2015 -
Three to see at LFF if you like... French films
Three hot tickets at this year’s BFI London Film Festival: a film by an established director, a great debut, and a wild card.
Tuesday 1 September 2015 -
The full programme of films and events for the 59th BFI London Film Festival has been unveiled.
Tuesday 1 September 2015 -
Christopher Nolan and Tacita Dean to headline ‘LFF Connects’
The 59th BFI London Film Festival announces a new event series with a focus on film and the wider creative industries, leading with a conversation event with artist Tacita Dean and filmmaker Christopher Nolan.
Friday 28 August 2015 -
Cate Blanchett to receive BFI Fellowship at LFF Awards Ceremony
Cate Blanchett will receive the BFI’s highest honour at the BFI London Film Festival’s annual Awards Ceremony, while Truth, starring Blanchett and Robert Redford, gets its UK premiere on the same night.
Thursday 27 August 2015 -
59th BFI London Film Festival American Express® Gala announced as the UK premiere of Carol
Director Todd Haynes and his luminous stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara will attend the UK premiere of this beautiful 1950s-set drama.
Monday 17 August 2015 -
BFI London Film Festival Archive Gala announced as restoration of Anthony Asquith’s Shooting Stars
Newly restored by the BFI National Archive, Anthony Asquith’s debut film from 1928 will be presented with a new live score by John Altman, a BAFTA and Emmy award-winning composer whose work includes Titanic and GoldenEye .
Thursday 20 August 2015 -
Armani partners with the BFI London Film Festival for the first time
The BFI London Film Festival is joining forces with Armani on their second edition of Films of City Frames, a filmmaking project supporting new talent from leading international film schools.
Thursday 9 July 2015 -
NET.WORK@LFF applications open for 2015 BFI London Film Festival
NET.WORK@LFF opens applications to emerging UK filmmakers to take part in international programme at 2015 BFI London Film Festival.
Thursday 2 July 2015 -
Screen International and BFI London Film Festival team for Stars of Tomorrow
For the first time, Screen International will be launching its celebrated Stars of Tomorrow programme at the BFI London Film Festival.
Monday 18 May 2015 -
Geena Davis to launch global symposium on gender in media at BFI London Film Festival
Introducing a new partnership between Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, Women in Film and Television (UK) and BFI London Film Festival.
Tuesday 23 June 2015 -
European premiere of Suffragette to open 59th BFI London Film Festival
The opening night of the 59th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express® will be attended by the filmmakers and stellar cast, including Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter and Meryl Streep.
Wednesday 3 June 2015 -
BFI London Film Festival announces 2015 dates and opens for film submissions
The 59th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express® will run from 7-18 October 2015.
Monday 9 February 2015 -
Every BFI London Film Festival opening night film
Travel back through the years with our complete list of the opening night films during all 58 years of the BFI London Film Festival.
Tuesday 7 October 2014
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