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21/10/2011
BFI London Film Festival 2011: ‘Take Shelter’
★★★☆☆ Screening at this year’s 55th BFI London Film Festival, Take Shelter (2011) once again unites Shotgun Stories (2007) directorContinue Reading
Category: Festivals
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21/10/2011
BFI London Film Festival 2011: ‘Natural Selection’
★★★★☆ One of many unexpected highlights of this year’s 55th BFI London Film Festival, Natural Selection (2011) is an amusing,Continue Reading
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21/10/2011
BFI London Film Festival 2011: ‘Guilty’
★★★★☆ Concerning the most horrific legal scandal in modern French history, director Vincent Garenq’s Guilty (Présumé coupable, 2011) is aContinue Reading
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20/10/2011
BFI London Film Festival 2011: ‘The Descendants’
★★★★☆ It’s been a seven year wait for a new film from US director Alexander Payne (his last, Sideways, wasContinue Reading
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20/10/2011
BFI London Film Festival 2011: ‘Dragonslayer’
★★★☆☆ Director Tristan Patterson’s award-winning documentary Dragonslayer (2011) (SXSW Grand Jury Prize for best documentary feature) documents the life ofContinue Reading
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20/10/2011
BFI London Film Festival 2011: ‘Headhunters’
★★☆☆☆ Adapted from Jo Nesbø’s international bestselling novel Headhunters (2011), director Morten Tyldum’s third full length feature is a tautContinue Reading
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19/10/2011
BFI London Film Festival 2011: ‘The Ides of March’
★★★☆☆ One of the big-hitters of the 55th BFI London Film Festival and starring and directed by George Clooney, TheContinue Reading
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19/10/2011
BFI London Film Festival 2011: ‘Return’
★★☆☆☆ Following the recent influx of anti-war films with a more inwardly-looking perspective, Liza Johnson’s debut feature Return (2011) –Continue Reading
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18/10/2011
BFI London Film Festival 2011: ‘The Artist’
★★★★★ A categorical success at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist is a gloriously executed love letterContinue Reading
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18/10/2011
LFF 2011: ‘Carnage’
★★★★☆ The cinematic adaptation of a stage play can offer a filmmaker many creative challenges. Either the film can largelyContinue Reading
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18/10/2011
LFF 2011: ‘Elena’ review
★★★★☆ Director Andrei Zvyagintsev broke onto the scene with his remarkably assured 2003 debut The Return, a visually alluring andContinue Reading
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17/10/2011
BFI London Film Festival 2011: ‘Nobody Else But You’
★★☆☆☆ Rumours are currently swirling around the internet as to the identity of the ‘Surprise Film’ at this year’s 55thContinue Reading
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17/10/2011
BFI London Film Festival 2011: ‘Las Acacias’
★★★☆☆ You know those long awkward car journeys you use to have as a kid in a foreigner’s car, crossingContinue Reading
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17/10/2011
BFI London Film Festival 2011: ‘Once Upon a Time in Anatolia’
★★★★★ Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan has been a Cannes favourite since his debut film Koza won the Palme d’OrContinue Reading
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16/10/2011
LFF 2011: ‘Alps’ (‘Alpeis’)
★★★★☆ In Alps (Alpeis, 2011), Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’ follow-up to the sensational Dogtooth (2009), a group of four peopleContinue Reading