London Film Festival 2014 – all our coverage

BFI London Film Festival 2014: 30 recommendations

Our hand-picked selection of highlights in this year’s festival.
Thursday 11 September 2014

Knocking on the celluloid ceiling: movies directed by women in the London Film Festival 2014

One fifth of the films in this year’s are directed (or co-directed) by women. It’s as good as it gets but not good enough, festival director Clare Stewart tells Sophie Mayer.
Friday 10 October 2014

London 2014 round-up: Viggo goes west

From Far from Men’s Algerian Civil War to Jauja’s Patagonian Conquest of the Desert, this year’s festival poster boy for the pioneer spirit of the western was Denmark’s Viggo Mortensen, says Thirza Wakefield.
Monday 3 November 2014

London 2014 round-up: Bi now (and then)

From the 60s sexual and political awakening of Carol Morley’s The Falling to two vivacious modern New York coming-out comedies, bisexuality got frank and fun at this year’s London Film Festival, reports Sophie Mayer.
Monday 3 November 2014

London 2014 roundup: ‘esperpento’ Iberian grotesque

Absurdist, macabre family disorder seems to be the flavour of this year’s best Spanish-language comedies, finds Mar Diestro-Dópido.
Monday 3 November 2014

London 2014 ‘Cult’ round-up: the good, the bad and the ugly

High-end horror and low-end horrors made strange bedfellows – and occasionally even stranger offspring – in the Cult strand of this year’s London Film Festival. Anton Bitel dived fearlessly in.
Monday 3 November 2014