Lou Thomas

Lou is the Digital Production Editor of bfi.org.uk and writes for Sight & Sound, Little White Lies and Den of Geek. Previously he produced and wrote commerical content for The Guardian and Time Out and wrote about music for bbc.co.uk. He tweets as London_Lou.

Articles by Lou Thomas

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Chiwetel Ejiofor: The story behind my first feature

Netflix’s latest film, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, sees Chiwetel Ejiofor stepping behind the camera for an inspiring tale of a Malawian boy with a cunning plan to save his village. Here he tells us why making movies is like hitting turbulence mid-flight.

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Interviews
A Private War director on Marie Colvin: ‘I empathise with that perverse desire to go to conflict zones’

Rosamund Pike stars as war correspondent Marie Colvin in A Private War, exploring the late reporter’s taste for danger on the frontlines of conflict. Making his switch from documentary to drama, director Matthew Heineman tells us what drew him to her story.

Friday, February 15, 2019

Interviews
Robert Rodriguez: My favourite sci-fi films

With the release of his new futuristic adventure Alita: Battle Angel, scripted by James Cameron, director Robert Rodriguez tells us about his love of boom-boom 80s sci-fi classics.

Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Features
Where to begin with M. Night Shyamalan

Your next obsession: the tricksy genre games of M. Night Shyamalan

Monday, January 28, 2019

Features
How Colette pushed sexual boundaries: Wash Westmoreland on his period biopic with Keira Knightley

After taking Julianne Moore to Oscar glory with Still Alice, director Wash Westmoreland is back with a dramatisation of the clandestine life of French novelist and sexual adventurer Colette. Here he tells us the world’s only now catching up with Colette.

Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Interviews
50 films and TV series to see in 2019

All the biggest and best on-screen highlights from the year to come, featuring dynamite new talent and returning favourites.

Friday, January 4, 2019

Lists
Boots Riley: ‘I’m putting forward ideas about how we can change things’

Sorry to Bother You pairs a righteous political fury with surrealist flights of fancy. Boots Riley explains how he came up with 2018’s wildest comedy.

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Interviews
‘I had my hands full with Harry’ – Stories from the set of Harry Dean Stanton’s goodbye film, Lucky

Harry Dean Stanton got the perfect last role in Lucky, an affecting portrait of an ageing man facing the end in a desert town. Actor-turned-director John Carroll Lynch shares some memories from the shoot.

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Interviews
19 films every nostalgic 90s music fan should watch

Grieving for grunge? Pining for Portishead? As a new doc about James Lavelle and Mo’Wax hits cinemas, we prescribe 19 more music docs set to send you straight back to the 90s.

Friday, August 31, 2018

Lists
Mission: Impossible stunts – ranked for danger

As Mission: Impossible – Fallout drops into cinemas, we celebrate the Tom Cruise action franchise’s most death-defying stunts to date… and apply a little risk assessment.

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Features