17 h. ago Bugonia movie review: worst contact (London Film Festival 2025)

Bugonia movie review: worst contact (London Film Festival 2025)  Flick Filosopher

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65 h. ago Stars Shine on the Red Carpet at the 2025 BFI London Film Festival

Stars Shine on the Red Carpet at the 2025 BFI London Film Festival  JetsetMag.com

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9 d. ago ‘Theatre is an elitist artform for privileged people’: Daniel Day

Speaking at the London film festival, the triple Oscar-winner mounted a fierce defence of movies and method acting, although he conceded My Left Foot couldn’t be made todayThe actor Daniel Day-Lewis railed against audiences being priced out of theatres, and what he perceived as a continued snobbery concerning cinema in the UK at an event at the London film festival.Speaking to the critic Mark Kermode for a lengthy conversation in front of an audience at the BFI Southbank, Day-Lewis said he felt “there’s still an elitism in this country that theatre is the superior form”. His drama training at the Bristol Old Vic school had encouraged in him the sense that theatre work was the goal. “Then there’s films: bit dodgy. Television: like, really? OK, you gotta pay the gas bill. That was the thinking. Continue reading...

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2 w. 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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2 w. 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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2 w. 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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2 w. 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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2 w. ago ‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in AustraliaThere’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI.And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

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2 w. 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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