Lou Thomas

Lou is the Digital Production Editor of bfi.org.uk. In this role he writes about film, interviews filmmakers, manages and edits web content and produces special projects including The Cut and BFI Flare Live. He also writes for Sight & Sound, Little White Lies, Den of Geek and The Skinny and NME.com. Previously he produced and wrote commerical content for The Guardian and Time Out and wrote about music for bbc.co.uk and Orange.co.uk. He tweets as London_Lou.

Articles by Lou Thomas

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On the phone to Werner Herzog: ‘A deep existential solitude is coming at us’

We called Werner Herzog in lockdown to talk about how coronavirus will change cinema, and the big shifts in human behaviour portended by his new film, Family Romance LLC.

Friday, July 3, 2020

Interviews
BFI Recommends: Ozark

A narco-crime series to rival Breaking Bad, Netflix’s Ozark is today’s binge-worthy recommendation, chosen by Lou Thomas.

Thursday, June 11, 2020

Features
Riz Ahmed on Mogul Mowgli: ‘It was like a Curb Your Enthusiasm moment put through a Muslim filter’

Riz Ahmed and director Bassam Tariq tell us about their new film Mogul Mowgli, a vital evocation of British-Asian experience in which Ahmed plays a rapper facing tough choices about his music career.

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Interviews
Nine discoveries from the 2020 Berlinale

First word on some of the striking debuts and other strong finds in the notoriously wide-ranging Berlin Film Festival.

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Festivals
No Hard Feelings director Faraz Shariat: ‘Racism is a tool that structures our entire society’

How debut director Faraz Shariat turned his own experiences as an immigrant into a Teddy Award-winning study of sexuality and identity in modern Germany.

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Interviews
Onward review: Pixar’s fantasy quest uncovers brotherly love

Two mismatched suburban elf brothers seek to reconjure their late father in Dan Scanlon’s rollicking emotional adventure, finds Lou Thomas.

Saturday, February 29, 2020

Reviews and recommendations
British films at the Berlin Film Festival 2020: What to look out for

New films from Sally Potter and Johnny Depp keep the British end up in a packed Berlinale that also includes some of Helen Mirren’s greatest hits.

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Features
From Kubrick to Mad Max: Eight films that influenced Birds of Prey

The latest film in the DC Extended Universe stars Margot Robbie in Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn). Here, director Cathy Yan shares her movie mood board.

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Interviews
From the Magazine

Daniel Isn’t Real review: an enjoyably edgy psychological horror

In Adam Egypt Mortimer’s smart thriller, Miles Robbins plays a traumatised young man and Patrick Schwarzenegger his sadistic, imaginary childhood friend, writes Lou Thomas.

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Reviews and recommendations
The Report director Scott Z. Burns: ‘In the paranoia and fear after 9/11, we lost the plot’

Adam Driver plays the US Senate investigator charged with examining the CIA’s use of torture after 9/11 in the new political thriller The Report. We read between the lines with director Scott Z. Burns.

Thursday, November 14, 2019

Interviews