LFF 2014: Wild
When shit hits the fan, we can now all turn to cinema for a dose of inspiration to go through some helluva adversity in pure Hollywood-style. Depending how deep you’re…
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LFF 2014: Pasolini
A fiercely independent filmmaker chronicles one of cinema’s most searing non-conformists – sounds like a match made in film heaven. Abel Ferrara, in all creative virtue, attempts to demystify Pier…
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LFF 2014: ’71
Jack O’Connell possesses about him the kind of gritty, British masculinity that’s rarely been around the silver screen for a while. His is a refreshing presence, and also very impressive how…
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LFF 2014: The Imitation Game
The story of Alan Turing is truly a tragic one. After breaking the Enigma Code at Bletchley Park, the mathematician endured several long, lonely years before being arrested for “gross…
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Ida (2014)
Since its bow in the London Film Festival last year, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida has quietly burrowed deep into my psyche, refusing to vacate my cerebral cortex with its haunting imagery…
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‘Ida’ gets a sublime new trailer
One of the most haunting films to play in the BFI London Film Festival last year, Pawel Pawlikowski’s sombre tale about identity, self-discovery and the burden of family history in…
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LFF 2012: The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology
There’s probably a scarce number of people on this planet who can lodge critical summation and cultural psychoanalysis by looking at a chocolate Kinder egg and still remain thought-provoking and…
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LFF 2012: Compliance
You may actively condemn Compliance for its unpleasantness, but there’s no denying the kick it sends to the guts. It’s a merciless piece of cinema that’s uncomfortable, appalling and provocative all at once, a film that compels us to take a hard look at a disquieting spectacle of ignorance – the human tragedy to blindly follow, obey and concede to authority without asking ‘why’.
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LFF 2012 Day Five: Amputees, crazy nuns and prostitutes
So that was the Order of the Day. In what seemed to be the most packed, challenging and personally rewarding day of the festival so far. I went out to check out the Audiards, Mungius and Kiarostamis steam-rolling in cinemas all day.
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LFF 2012 Day Four: Vinterberg is back, bitches
Whilst the likes of Elle Fanning, Sally Potter, daughter Alice Englert and mother Jane Campion strolled down the red carpet at Odeon West End last night bringing some bits of…
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LFF 2012 Day Three: Beasts and some miserable shit
Day Three of the festival started with a promise – a double-whammy of arthouse darlings Laurence Anyways and Beasts of the Southern Wild – a promise that somehow, irrevocably, metamorphose into a recurring nightmare.
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