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30 recommendations at the 2012 London Film Festival
Sight & Sound’s hand-picked selection of highlights in this year’s festival.
Thursday 20 September 2012 -
Spin the wheel! London 2012 is underway…
Our editor straps on his goggles, loosens his waistband and prepares to boldly plumb the uncharted regions of the London Film Festival.
Wednesday 10 October 2012 -
“Smart, relevant… and direct!” Fyzal Boulifa on The Curse
The British short filmmaker tells Carmen Gray how he respun his mother’s pre-marital desert escapades into a compelling – and Cannes-winning – allegory of emancipation.
Thursday 11 October 2012 -
The war that won’t let go: WWII at London 2012
Nick Hasted on a trio of double takes from World War II.
Friday 12 October 2012 -
The pain in Spain: three Spanish films at London 2012
Mar Diestro-Dópido cuts her own Spanish pathway across the festival’s Cult, Experimenta and Dare strands to find a trio of films steeped in loneliness, memories and death.
Monday 15 October 2012 -
The same cloth: Edith Head and Alfred Hitchcock
The doyenne of Hollywood costume designers was a perfect perfectionist match for the Master of Suspense, finds Thirza Wakefield.
Tuesday 16 October 2012 -
Fantasies, phantoms and firelighters: I’m Going To Change My Name and Mekong Hotel
Sophie Mayer hails two richly haunting visions in the London Film Festival’s 2012 Experimenta strand, from Maria Saakyan and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Wednesday 17 October 2012 -
Civil wrongs: American political documentaries at London 2012
Five new American documentaries hold up a mirror to the country’s recent marked failures of justice, finds Ashley Clark.
Friday 19 October 2012 -
Rebel charm: Benh Zeitlin on Beasts of the Southern Wild
The director of the otherworldly Louisiana-at-sea fantasia talks to Isabel Stevens.
Sunday 21 October 2012 -
Nick Hasted weighs up this year’s outré offerings.
Monday 22 October 2012 -
London 2012: Wolves vs giraffes! More animation for kids
Japanese cross-breed fable Wolf Children and French transcontinental odyssey Zarafa made a curious festival double-bill for Sophie Mayer.
Tuesday 23 October 2012 -
London 2012: Animation round-up
Jez Stewart sees 14 animation companies take on Graham Chapman’s audio memoirs – and finds a trio of marvels in the International Animation Panorama.
Tuesday 23 October 2012 -
Three new daring – or debate-worthy – dramas from sub-Saharan Africa loom large on Basia Lewandowska Cummings’ festival card.
Wednesday 24 October 2012 -
Blow hard – Slavoj Zizek, sans handkerchief at London 2012
The philosopher-contrarian brought his stage shtick to the London Film Festival. Henry K. Miller packed his reality-revealing sunglasses but forgot the tissues.
Thursday 25 October 2012 -
Further steps – two shorts turned to features at London 2012
This year’s LFF showcased two different northern features that blossomed from 2007-vintage short films. Dylan Cave talked double takes with their makers.
Monday 29 October 2012
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