9 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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11 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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12 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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12 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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16 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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17 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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32 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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32 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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32 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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33 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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34 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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35 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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39 h. ago Every film having World Premiere at Grimmfest as organisers promise to ‘traumatise’ fans

The UK horror film festival is returning this week with some huge names in attendance

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40 h. 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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40 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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61 h. ago Kylie Jenner and Timothee Chalamet pictured together for first time in TWO MONTHS as they head to NYC party

The billionaire cosmetics mogul and the 'it' boy of Hollywood were headed to the after party for the premiere of Chalamet's new film Marty Supreme at The New York Film Festival.

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64 h. 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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67 h. 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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6 d. ago The Guardian view on Tilly Norwood: she’s not art, she’s data | Editorial

The first 100% AI actor is a cause for alarm. But the human connection of great acting can never be replacedThe threat to human creativity from technology took another step closer this week with the appearance of Tilly Norwood, the first 100% AI-generated actor. Unsurprisingly, her unveiling at the Zurich film festival in a comic sketch called AI Commissioner caused an outcry. Emily Blunt described the film as “terrifying” and the actors’ union Sag-Aftra condemned it as “jeopardising performer livelihoods and devaluing human artistry”.There is much that is problematic about Norwood, not least the message her “girl-next-door vibe” sends to young women. But the more serious point is that her face has been made from those of real actors without their knowledge or consent. Her lighthearted debut masks the fact that she is part of a new model of media production that rides roughshod over longstanding norms and laws governing artists and their work. Hollywood has been anticipating Norwood...

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