BFI London Film Festival – everyone is invited
4 to 15 October in cinemas across the UK and on BFI Player.
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Four screens open seven days a week for the widest choice of great films.
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In the latest film by Rogue One and Monsters director Gareth Edwards, AI has become everything we fear and John David Washington’s mercenary is on a mission to destroy it.
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The Greatest Films of All Time issue
Once a decade the magazine asks critics to select the best films ever made. Explore the results in a special edition.
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3 to see at LFF: sex and violence
Three bold genre films that push against trends of squeamishness and puritanism around representations of sex and violence. Clutch those pearls!
By Paul Ridd
The Pigeon Tunnel: Errol Morris’s richly crafted portrait of John le Carré
By Nick Bradshaw
Ballywalter: an intimate, low-key Northern Irish comedy
By Brian Bowe
David McCallum obituary: The Great Escape, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Sapphire & Steel star
By David Parkinson
Heaven and hell on earth: the films of the Ormond family
By Sophia Satchell-Baeza
5 things to watch this weekend – 29 September to 1 October
By Sam Wigley
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On stage at BFI Southbank
Nineteen years since its original release, writer-director Shane Meadows and producer Mark Herbert visited BFI Southbank to talk about Dead Man’s Shoes. The event was hosted as part of the BFI’s Acting Hard season.
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