6 h. ago Amal Clooney Evokes Retro Glamour in Textural Tamara Ralph Dress at London Film Festival With George Clooney

Amal Clooney Evokes Retro Glamour in Textural Tamara Ralph Dress at London Film Festival With George Clooney  Yahoo News UK

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8 h. ago Moss and Freud review – Kate meets Lucian and they get on brilliantly with absolutely no funny business at all

London film festival: The supermodel comes across as a dippy trustafarian and the artist like her soppy old grandpa in this bland, legacy-protecting depiction of their friendshipWhen Lucian Freud met Kate Moss turns out to be the encounter of a sweet, cuddly old gentleman and a guardedly opaque hedonist. Both look defanged.Freud’s sensational Naked Portrait 2002 is a nude study of the supermodel, to whom he had been introduced by his daughter, the fashion designer Bella Freud. Moss was pregnant when she sat for him – which lent a fierce, additional frisson to the painting’s candour and intimacy. Ellie Bamber plays Kate and carries off the unclothed moments with great directness and aplomb. Freud is played with Germanic R sounds by Derek Jacobi (who incidentally played Freud’s contemporary Francis Bacon in John Maybury’s Love Is the Devil in 1998) and he has Freud’s buzzard-like look but not quite the sharpness and severity. Continue reading...

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29 h. ago London Film Festival’s Surprise Premiere Is ‘Tuner,’ Starring Leo Woodall and Dustin Hoffman

London Film Festival’s Surprise Premiere Is ‘Tuner,’ Starring Leo Woodall and Dustin Hoffman  The Hollywood Reporter

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30 h. ago London Film Festival 2025 Red Carpet: Kerry Washington, Tilda Swinton and More Celebrity Style, Photos

London Film Festival 2025 Red Carpet: Kerry Washington, Tilda Swinton and More Celebrity Style, Photos  WWD

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32 h. ago Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story – exhilarating record of game

London film festival Brathwaite’s empowering images of African Americans in the 1960s gave a new generation a fresh template for representation, brilliantly honoured hereThere have been some fascinating documentaries about photographers: Tish Murtha; Martin Parr; Vivian Maier. Maybe the movie documentary form is something that naturally comes alive when showcasing particularly vivid still images. Here is another outstanding example, from writer-director Yemi Bamiro, about the remarkable career of Kwame Brathwaite, a photographer, musician and African American activist who was a unique politico-aesthete. With his brother Elombe, he virtually invented the phrase “Black Is Beautiful” in the 1960s by photographing the Grandassa Models in Harlem: young African American women who became the sensational template for beauty, doing away with the usual cosmetic products and the usual white standard of femininity.Black Is Beautiful became a radical rallying cry, an inspired three-word prose po...

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32 h. ago Colin Farrell’s gamble doesn’t pay off – plus the best and worst films at London Film Festival

Colin Farrell’s gamble doesn’t pay off – plus the best and worst films at London Film Festival  The Telegraph

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36 h. ago 11 films you shouldn't miss at the London Film Festival 2025 – from Knives Out to Anemone

11 films you shouldn't miss at the London Film Festival 2025 – from Knives Out to Anemone  empireonline.com

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36 h. ago London Korean Film Festival Celebrates 20th Year With New Korean Films

London Korean Film Festival Celebrates 20th Year With New Korean Films  Forbes

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51 h. ago London Film Festival launches with Daniel Craig's third 'Knives Out' movie

London Film Festival launches with Daniel Craig's third 'Knives Out' movie  Reuters

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52 h. ago London Film Festival 2025 Opens With Starry ‘Knives Out’ Screening

London Film Festival 2025 Opens With Starry ‘Knives Out’ Screening  Deadline

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52 h. ago ‘Knives Out’ Creator Rian Johnson Opens London Film Festival in Spooky Style With ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ — His “Most Personal” Murder Mystery Yet

‘Knives Out’ Creator Rian Johnson Opens London Film Festival in Spooky Style With ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ — His “Most Personal” Murder Mystery Yet  The Hollywood Reporter

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53 h. ago Daniel Craig and Rian Johnson Take London Film Festival to Church With Rapturous ‘Knives Out 3’ Premiere

Daniel Craig and Rian Johnson Take London Film Festival to Church With Rapturous ‘Knives Out 3’ Premiere  Variety

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54 h. ago Daniel Craig ‘incredibly proud’ to open BFI London Film Festival with Knives Out

Craig reprises his role as the famed private detective, Benoit Blanc, in the third instalment of the Knives Out series, titled, Wake Up, Dead Man.

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55 h. ago Daniel Craig joins Mila Kunis and Kerry Washington at Knives Out 3 premiere as London Film Festival 2025 opens

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery launched the 69th BFI London Film Festival, with stars including Andrew Scott and Daryl McCormack walking the red carpet

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60 h. ago Rian Johnson on Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man and why murder mysteries shouldn't be 'cosy'

Director Rian Johnson and producer Ram Bergman give the inside track on Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man ahead of its premiere at the Opening Night Gala at London Film Festival

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3 d. ago London Film Festival Head on Premieres, Protests and Whether She’d Program a Film Starring an AI Actress Like Tilly Norwood: ‘It Could Be Happening and I Don’t Even Know!’

London Film Festival Head on Premieres, Protests and Whether She’d Program a Film Starring an AI Actress Like Tilly Norwood: ‘It Could Be Happening and I Don’t Even Know!’  Variety

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3 d. ago Lynne Ramsay’s passion, Jim Jarmusch’s star turn and knives come out again: Peter Bradshaw’s London film festival picks

Among this year’s must-sees Jennifer Lawrence brings gothic steam, Daniel Craig takes a new case and a constellation of luminaries get cosmicRian Johnson’s whodunnit Knives Out franchise with Daniel Craig as the eccentric Southern detective Benoit Blanc put some fizz into the London film festival a couple of years ago when the second film in the series was included. Now the threequel is the festival’s opening gala: Josh O’Connor is the principled young priest who finds himself in the frame when his fierce clerical superior is whacked – and Benoit has to find out the truth. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago From the BFI London film festival to Taylor Swift: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

From the BFI London film festival to Taylor Swift: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead  The Guardian

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7 d. ago From Indus Echoes to Chikkar: Here’s what’s playing at this year’s London Pakistani Film Festival

From Indus Echoes to Chikkar: Here’s what’s playing at this year’s London Pakistani Film Festival  Dawn

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9 d. ago ‘Carol’ Producer Elizabeth Karlsen, ‘BLKNWS’ Director Kahlil Joseph to Serve on BFI London Film Festival Competition Jury

‘Carol’ Producer Elizabeth Karlsen, ‘BLKNWS’ Director Kahlil Joseph to Serve on BFI London Film Festival Competition Jury  The Hollywood Reporter

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