3 h. ago London Film Festival 2025 in Edinburgh and Glasgow: All the films getting exclusive screenings at the GFT and Filmhouse

You won’t have to go to London to enjoy advance screening of some huge new films.

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4 h. ago Letitia Wright’s Directorial Debut HIGHWAY TO THE MOON Selected for BFI London Film Festival

Letitia Wright’s Directorial Debut HIGHWAY TO THE MOON Selected for BFI London Film Festival  Together Films

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5 h. ago A House Of Dynamite leaves critics in awe with 'horrifically gripping and unsettling' nuclear war scenes dubbed 'more terrifying than most horror films'

The American political thriller premiered at the Venice International Film Festival on September 2 and will land on Netflix on October 24.

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5 h. ago BFI London Film Festival: Chloé Zhao’s ‘Hamnet’ & Kate Moss Biopic ‘Moss & Feud’ Among Headline Titles — Full List

BFI London Film Festival: Chloé Zhao’s ‘Hamnet’ & Kate Moss Biopic ‘Moss & Feud’ Among Headline Titles — Full List  Deadline

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5 h. ago BFI London Film Festival: Chloé Zhao’s ‘Hamnet’ & Kate Moss Biopic ‘Moss & Freud’ Among Headline Titles — Full List

BFI London Film Festival: Chloé Zhao’s ‘Hamnet’ & Kate Moss Biopic ‘Moss & Freud’ Among Headline Titles — Full List  Deadline

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5 h. ago ‘Jay Kelly,’ ‘Hamnet,’ ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘After The Hunt,’ ‘Is This Thing On?’ Among Major Premieres in Full BFI London Film Festival Lineup

‘Jay Kelly,’ ‘Hamnet,’ ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘After The Hunt,’ ‘Is This Thing On?’ Among Major Premieres in Full BFI London Film Festival Lineup  The Hollywood Reporter

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5 h. ago Chloé Zhao, Bradley Cooper Among BFI London Film Festival Lineup

Chloé Zhao, Bradley Cooper Among BFI London Film Festival Lineup  Variety

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6 h. ago Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley’s ‘Hamnet’ tops this year’s BFI London Film Festival line

Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley’s ‘Hamnet’ tops this year’s BFI London Film Festival line-up  Time Out Worldwide

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9 h. ago ‘I was killed in virtually every film’: how trailblazing Chinese

A retrospective at the BFI celebrates how Wong – whether typecast in orientalist fantasies or breaking taboos with a kiss – could always steal the showAnna May Wong is everywhere these days. The chic Chinese-American actor who first made a splash in the silent era has been fictionalised in films and TV shows, including Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood and Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, and an excellent novel, Amanda Lee Koe’s Delayed Rays of a Star. She has her face on the quarter, the first Asian-American to be honoured in that way, and she is the subject of a page-turner of a biography, Not Your China Doll by Katie Gee Salisbury. But what about the films? This month, BFI Southbank in London hosts a retrospective of this remarkable star’s career, titled Anna May Wong: the Art of Reinvention.Wong was born in Los Angeles to second-generation Chinese parents in 1905. At the very beginning of her film career in 1921, she self-consciously told a movie magazine that she was “a considerable spot of ye...

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11 h. ago In the shattering ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab,’ the story of a 6

Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania's” The Voice of Hind Rajab” is debuting at the Venice Film Festival Wednesday

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15 h. ago 90 is the new 40! As Kim Novak steps back into the spotlight at 92 the nonagenarian legends who are proving that age is just a number

Kim Novak was back in the spotlight this week with her appearance at the Venice Film Festival. And she isn't the only nonagenarian still enjoying her decades in showbiz.

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20 h. ago Dead Man’s Wire review – Gus Van Sant calls the shots with surreal true

Venice film festivalAl Pacino, Colman Domingo and Myha’la excel in this gripping take on the events of 1977 when an Indianapolis businessman held his mortgage broker hostage With terrific chutzpah, black-comic flair and cool, cruel unsentimentality, screenwriter Austin Kolodney and director Gus Van Sant have made a true-crime suspense thriller set in the 1970s, tapping into the spirit of both Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon and Network. Apart from anything else, it is a reminder that in that post-Kennedy, post-Watergate age, plenty of lawless and febrile things happened that would now be considered phenomena purely attributable to social media.In 1977, an Indianapolis businessman named Tony Kiritsis, with many acquaintances in the police department, kidnapped a mortgage broker named Richard Hall, and tied Hall’s neck with a “dead man’s wire” to his shotgun, which would therefore go off if police sharpshooters tried to kill him. Kiritsis even paraded his victim like this on TV while...

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24 h. ago Portobello review – Marco Bellocchio’s glorious saga of TV stars, mafia prisoners and lace doilies

Venice film festivalIn the first two episodes of a six-part series, the stardom of 80s primetime host Enzo Tortora is cleverly crosscut with the scramble of a mob secretary who implicates him – and his parrot – in drug traffickingMarco Bellocchio, the tireless warhorse of Italian cinema, kicks up a swirling dust cloud of corruption with this fabulous, stranger-than-fiction account of an 80s TV star convicted of conspiring with the Camorra. Shot for the streaming service HBO Max, it is the director’s second historical miniseries after 2022’s Exterior Night, about the kidnapping of Aldo Moro, and features the same lead player in Fabrizio Gifuni, an actor who has surely cornered the market in playing glossy public figures whose lives are about to take a hellish turn. Bellocchio’s dramas typically inhabit this kind of shonky, venal moral universe. The ground is liable to drop away pretty much at any moment.Gifuni stars as Enzo Tortora, a primetime TV presenter in the twinkling Terry Wog...

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24 h. ago Please don’t succumb to hopelessness over Palestine. Your voice can still make a difference | Arwa Mahdawi

As the war gets livestreamed to our phones, it is easy to be overwhelmed and feel helpless. But even small acts of activism add upI don’t know if Frankenstein star Christoph Waltz is normally a man of few words but he didn’t have much to say at a recent Venice film festival press conference. Waltz uttered only six words, with “CGI is for losers” constituting four of them. The remaining two were “I don’t”, in response to a question about how he stays hopeful in today’s “monstrous times”.Waltz is certainly not alone in despairing of a world which seems to elevate liars, cheats, and adjudicated sexual predators. It’s hard to feel hope when a genocide has been livestreamed to our phones for almost two years and there is no justice in sight; just a systematic slaughter of the journalists who serve as messengers. No peace prospects on the horizon; just well-paid consultants putting together ethnic cleansing prospectuses so a “Gaza Riviera” can be built. (Oh, sorry, we’re supposed to say “...

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24 h. ago In ‘Marc, by Sofia,’ an intimate portrait of fashion luminary and friendship

Sofia Coppola's documentary about Marc Jacobs has premiered Tuesday at the Venice Film Festival

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26 h. ago Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson unrecognisable as he drops 60lbs for upcoming true story film

The actor showed off his significantly slimmed down frame as the Venice Film Festival on Monday while promoting his upcoming movie about the life of MMA fighter Mark Kerr.

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27 h. ago Photos show highlights from week 2 of the Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival is in full swing with a starry batch of awards season hopefuls arriving in Italy for glamorous premieres and discussions about their films. Emily Blunt, Amanda Seyfried and Dwayne Johnson are just some of the stars who have new films premiering at the Venice festival, which runs through Sept. 6.

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27 h. ago Kaia Gerber, 23, wows in sexy plunging top as she joins boyfriend Lewis Pullman, 32, in leading stars at Venice Film Festival event

The model, 23, who has been seen packing on the PDA with the actor, 32, in the Italian city, wore a plunging crop top.

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27 h. ago Kim Novak uncensored: Legendary actress, 92, is finally given the freedom to speak her side of the story as critics deem her 'impressively unfiltered'

After stepping away from the limelight, Kim Novak returned to Venice Film Festival on Monday after releasing a documentary about her poverty-stricken upbringing

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28 h. ago Secrets of The Rock's body transformation: Expert reveals how Dwayne Johnson likely lost 60lbs to be 'taken seriously' in Hollywood

Famed for his huge stature, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson stunned fans this week when he debuted a much slimmer frame during the 82nd Venice Film Festival.

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