11 h. ago The Voice of Hind Rajab LFF review: an utterly devastating human story from Gaza’s front line

The tragedy of five-year-old Hind Rajab is retold in one of this year’s only truly essential pieces of film-making

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11 h. ago Blue Moon review – Ethan Hawke is terrific in Richard Linklater’s bitter Broadway breakup drama

London film festivalHawke plays with campy brilliance and criminal combover the lyricist Lorenz Hart as he spirals into vinegary jilted despair after his split from Richard RodgersBreaking up with the more prominent partner in a showbiz double act is a hazardous business. Larry David did it. So did Andrew Ridgeley. Now this witty and heartbreakingly sad chamber piece from screenwriter Robert Kaplow and director Richard Linklater tells the all but unbearable story of Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart just after his split from Richard Rodgers. He is played with campy brilliance, an unspeakable combover and fake smallness by Ethan Hawke, who is often digitally reduced in size – but is also occasionally filmed standing in an off-camera hole to look up poignantly at taller characters, facing Hart’s vertical challenge as José Ferrer once played the diminutive Toulouse-Lautrec.Hawke gets big, world-weary laughs with Hart’s riffs on the hidden gayness of the movie Casablanca and the cheesily up...

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15 h. ago Neurodiverse collective wins award for ‘creative audacity’ at London film festival

Neurodiverse collective wins award for ‘creative audacity’ at London film festival  The Guardian

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16 h. ago London Film Festival runs until October 19. Read more below.

London Film Festival runs until October 19. Read more below.  facebook.com

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36 h. ago Bruce Springsteen larks about with leading men Jeremy Allen White and Stephen Graham at the premiere of his biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere during BFI London Film Festival

The trio appeared in high spirits as they led the stars at the event which took place during the BFI London Film Festival on Wednesday.

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38 h. 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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39 h. ago Watch: Will Arnett tries joke on The Independent at ‘Is This Thing on?’ premiere

Will Arnett flexed his newly sharpened comic timing during the premiere for comedy Is This Thing On? at the BFI London Film Festival on Tuesday (14 October).

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39 h. ago Inside the London Film Festival premieres and Frieze week parties

What’s going on behind the velvet rope during London’s biggest week of art and film

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48 h. ago ‘High Wire’ Director Calif Chong on Stephen Chow Dreams, BFI London Film Festival Premiere and Making Immigration Funny

‘High Wire’ Director Calif Chong on Stephen Chow Dreams, BFI London Film Festival Premiere and Making Immigration Funny  Variety

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61 h. ago Andra Day Wore Ashish To The ‘Is This Thing On?’ London Film Festival Premiere

Andra Day Wore Ashish To The ‘Is This Thing On?’ London Film Festival Premiere  Red Carpet Fashion Awards

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3 d. ago Tessa Thompson: 'Taika Waititi's a huge infant with a bank account — it's terrifying'

The actor reminisced about her Thor colleagues Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston while promoting her new project at the London Film Festival

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3 d. ago Mia Goth flashes racy glimpse of her underwear in sheer backless gown as she joins her dapper co

Mia Goth ensured all eyes were on her on Monday evening as she joined her co-star Jacob Elordi at the premiere of Frankenstein during the 69th BFI London Film Festival.

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3 d. ago The best and worst looks celebrities have worn at the London Film Festival so far

The best and worst looks celebrities have worn at the London Film Festival so far  Business Insider

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3 d. ago Elle Fanning Embraces Simone Rocha’s ‘Disgruntled Debutante’ at London Film Festival

Elle Fanning Embraces Simone Rocha’s ‘Disgruntled Debutante’ at London Film Festival  WWD

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3 d. ago Renate Reinsve Wore Louis Vuitton To The ‘Sentimental Value’ London Film Festival Screening

Renate Reinsve Wore Louis Vuitton To The ‘Sentimental Value’ London Film Festival Screening  Red Carpet Fashion Awards

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3 d. ago H is for Hawk review – Claire Foy is tremendously authentic in eccentric grief drama

London film festival: Foy convinces as a grieving academic who trains a goshawk in this film based on Helen Macdonald’s bestselling nature memoirCan training a goshawk cure grief? Or treat it, in some way? Will keeping it indoors – hooded so that it remains calm – and then taking it out hunting allow you to reconnect radically with nature in a way that prissy townies will never understand? Or is this just a domesticated festival of cruelty to both bird and prey and a symptom of serious depression? Philippa Lowthorpe’s intriguing, likably performed if slightly precious film – based on Helen Macdonald’s bestselling nature memoir from 2014 – addresses these questions, but can’t quite deliver the Hollywood redemption narrative that it appears to offer: the story of a woman in the depths of melancholy who is helped through the darkness and, we have to assume, out the other side, by her goshawk, whimsically named Mabel. (Macdonald used she/her pronouns at the time of publication and came ...

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3 d. ago Elle Fanning's New Era in Simone Rocha at London Film Festival

Elle Fanning's New Era in Simone Rocha at London Film Festival  Red Carpet Fashion Awards

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3 d. ago Ayo Edebiri’s Graceful Chanel Moment at London Film Festival

Ayo Edebiri’s Graceful Chanel Moment at London Film Festival  Red Carpet Fashion Awards

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3 d. ago Elle Fanning Strikes a Pose at the BFI London Film Festival in England, Plus Selma Blair, Doechii and More

Elle Fanning Strikes a Pose at the BFI London Film Festival in England, Plus Selma Blair, Doechii and More  People.com

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3 d. ago Bugonia review: Emma Stone is mesmerising in this bleak alien conspiracy

Screened at the BFI London Film Festival, the film sees Stone re-unite with Yorgos Lanthimos for a black comedy that’s low on laughs until a blood-spattered final act

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