Shadows @ LFFBFI 53rd London Film Festival
14 - 29 OCTOBER 2009
2 0 0 9 A W A R D S ...
Film: A PROPHET
Doc (Grierson Award): DEFAMATION
First Feature (Sutherland Award): AJAMI
British Newcomer: Jack Thorne (THE SCOUTING BOOK FOR BOYS)
BFI Fellowships: John Hurt (44 INCH CHEST, THE LIMITS OF CONTROL) and Souleymane Cisse (TELL ME WHO YOU ARE)
Opening Night:
FANTASTIC MR FOX
Closing Night:
NOWHERE BOY
Surprise Film:
CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY
Galas:
THE BOYS ARE BACK
BRIGHT STAR
CHLOE
AN EDUCATION
FANTASTIC MR FOX
FATHER OF MY CHILDREN
THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS
MICMACS
NOWHERE BOY
A PROPHET
THE ROAD
A SERIOUS MAN
THE WHITE RIBBON
UP IN THE AIR
RICH'S BEST OF THE FEST 2009:
DAILY FESTIVAL UPDATES, including short reviews of every film seen...
1 DAY (Woolcock, UK)
44 INCH CHEST (Venville, UK)45365 (Ross/Ross, US)
ABOUT ELLY... (Farhadi, Irn)THE ABSENCE (Keita, Sen)
ADRIFT (Chuyen, Vie)
* ADRIFT (Dahlia, Br)
AIR DOLL (Kore-eda, Jpn)
AJAMI (Copti/Shani, Isr)ALEXANDER THE LAST (Swanberg, US)
AMERICAN: THE BILL HICKS STORY (Harlock/Thomas, UK)
ANDER (Caston, Sp)THE APE (Ganslandt, Swe)
APPLAUSE (Zandvliet, Den)
* AROUND A SMALL MOUNTAIN (Rivette, Fr)
AS GOD COMMANDS (Salvatores, It)
ASTRO BOY (Bowers, US)AT THE END OF DAYBREAK (Ho, Mas)
THE BAD LIEUTENANT - PORT OF CALL: NEW ORLEANS (Herzog, US)
BALIBO (Connolly, Aus)BARE ESSENCE OF LIFE (Yokohama, Jpn)
BEESWAX (Bujalski, US)
BEHIND THE RAINBOW (El-Tahri, Egy)
BELLAMY (Chabrol, Fr)THE BIG DREAM (Placido, It)
BLANK CITY (Danhier, US)
BLESSED (Kokkinos, Aus)
BLIND PIG WHO WANTS TO FLY (Edwin, Ina)
BLUEBEARD (Breillat, Fr)
THE BOYS ARE BACK (Hicks, Aus)
BRIGHT STAR (Campion, UK)
BUNNY & THE BULL (King, UK)BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE (Stein, US)
BURROWING (Hellstrom/Wenzel, Swe)
CALIMUCHO (Jansen, Ned)
CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY (Moore, US)
CASTRO (Moguillansky, Arg)
CHLOE (Egoyan, Can)CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH (Lu, Chn)
COLD SOULS (Barthes, US)
CRACKS (Scott, UK)LA DANSE: THE PARIS OPERA BALLET (Wiseman, Fr)
DEAR LEMON LIMA (Yoonessi, US)
DEFAMATION (Shamir, Isr)
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED (Blakeson, UK)DOGTOOTH (Lanthimos, Gr)
DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME (Morrissey, UK)THE DOUBLE HOUR (Capotondi, It)
DOUBLE TAKE (Grimonprez, Bel)
ECCENTRICITIES OF A BLONDE HAIRED GIRL (de Oliveira, Por)
AN EDUCATION (Scherfig, UK)
ENTER THE VOID (Noe, Fr)THE EXPLODING GIRL (Gray, US)
EXTRACT (Judge, US)
EYES WIDE OPEN (Tabakman, Isr)
FANTASTIC MR FOX (Anderson, UK)FATHER OF MY CHILDREN (Hansen-Love, Fr)
FEAST OF VILLAINS (Jianlin, Chn)
THE FERRARI DINO GIRL (Nemec, Cz)
FILM IST: A GIRL & A GUN (Deutsch, Aut)
FIRE OF MANSARE (Wade, Sen)
FORBIDDEN DOOR (Anwar, Ina)
THE FRENCH KISSERS (Sattouf, Fr)
FROM TIME TO TIME (Fellowes, UK)GIGANTE (Biniez, Ur)
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN (Techine, Fr)
GIULIA DOESN'T DATE AT NIGHT (Piccioni, It)
GLORIOUS 39 (Poliakoff, UK)GULAAL (Kashyap, Ind)
HADEWIJCH (Dumont, Fr)THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD (Jude, Rom)
HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG (Field, US)
HEADHUNTER (Hammerich, Den)
HELP GONE MAD (Khlebnikov, Rus)
HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT'S INFERNO (Bromberg/Medrea, Fr)HIS & HERS (Wardrop, Ire)
THE INFORMANT! (Soderbergh, US)IVUL (Kotting, Swi)
JOURNEY TO THE MOON (Ataman, Tur)
KAMUI (Sai, Jpn)
KARAOKE (Chong, Mas)
KICKS (Heymann, UK)
KINATAY (Mendoza, Ph)THE LAST DAYS OF EMMA BLANK (van Warmerdam, Ned)
LEAVING (Corsini, Fr)
LEBANON (Maoz, Isr)
LIFE DURING WARTIME (Solondz, US)LIKE YOU KNOW IT ALL (Hong, Kor)
THE LIMITS OF CONTROL (Jarmusch, Sp)
LONDON RIVER (Bouchareb, UK)LOURDES (Hausner AUSTRIA)
THE MAN WHO WILL COME (Diritti, It)MAX EMBARRASSING (Svendsen, Den)
MEN ON THE BRIDGE (Ozge, Tur)
THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS (Heslov, US)
METROPIA (Saleh, Swe)
MICMACS (Jeunet, Fr)
THE MILK OF SORROW (Llosa, Per)MORPHIA (Balabanov, Rus)
MOTHER (Bong, Kor)
MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICAN (Bailey/Thompson, UK)MY GREATEST ESCAPE (Godet, Fr)
MY ONLY SUNSHINE (Erdem, Tur)
NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT PERSIAN CATS (Ghobadi, Irn)
NOWHERE BOY (Taylor-Wood, UK)NYMPH (Ratanaruang, Tha)
OIL CITY CONFIDENTIAL (Temple, UK)ONE-ZERO (Zaki, Egy)
AN ORGANIZATION OF DREAMS (McMullen, UK)
OSADNE (Skop SLOVAKIA)
PAPER HEART (Jasenovec, US)
PASSENGER SIDE (Bissonnette, Can)PERESTROIKA (Turner, UK)
PERSECUTION (Chereau, Fr)PLAN B (Berger, Arg)
POLYTECHNIQUE (Villeneuve, Can)
THE PORTUGUESE NUN (Green, Por)
POWER OF THE POOR (Drabo/Diakite, Mli)
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL 'PUSH' BY SAPPHIRE (Daniels, US)
A PROPHET (Audiard, Fr)PROTEKTOR (Najbrt, Cz)
REGRETS (Kahn, Fr)
RIDE THE WAVE JOHNNY (Mishra, Ind)
THE ROAD (Hillcoat, US)A ROOM AND A HALF (Khrzhanovsky, Rus)
SAMSON & DELILAH (Thornton, Aus)
THE SCOUTING BOOK FOR BOYS (Harper, UK)THE SEARCH (Tseden, Chn)
SERGIO (Barker, US)
A SERIOUS MAN (Coen/Coen, US)SHE, A CHINESE (Guo, UK)
SHED YOUR TEARS AND WALK AWAY (Lewis, UK)
SHINE OF RAINBOWS, A (Sarin, Can)
SHIRLEY ADAMS (Hermanus, SA)
SIGHTSEEING (Acuna, Arg)
A SINGLE MAN (Ford, US)ST GEORGE SHOOTS THE DRAGON (Dragojevic, Ser)
STARSUCKERS (Atkins, UK)STILL BILL (Baker, US)
THE STOLEN WELL (Benegal, Ind)
STORM (Schmid, Ger)
SWEET RUSH (Wajda, Pol)SWEETHEARTS OF THE PRISON RODEO (Beesley, US)
TAKING WOODSTOCK (Lee, US)
TALES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE (Hofer/Mungiu/et al, Rom)TELL ME WHO YOU ARE (Cisse, Mli)
THEY ALL LIE (Pineiro, Arg)
THIS VERY INSTANT (Huerga, Sp)
THE THORN IN THE HEART (Gondry, Fr)
THREE DAYS WITH THE FAMILY (Coll, Sp)
THE TIME THAT REMAINS (Suleiman, Fr)
TODAY'S SPECIAL (Kaplan, US)
TRASH HUMPERS (Korine, US)THE TRAVELLER (Maher, Egy)
TRIMPIN': THE SOUND OF INVENTION (Esmonde, US)
UP IN THE AIR (Reitman, US)VALHALLA RISING (Refn, UK)
* VILLA AMALIA (Jacquot FRANCE )
VINCERE (Bellocchio, It)
VISITORS (Hong/Kawase/Diaz, Kor)
WAH DO DEM (Fleischner/Chace, US)
WE LIVE IN PUBLIC (Timoner, US)THE WELL (Kulkarni, Ind)
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ME (Jalongo, It)
WHEN YOU'RE STRANGE (DiCillo, US)
WHITE MATERIAL (Denis, Fr)
THE WINDOW (Dasgupta, Ind)
THE WHITE RIBBON (Haneke, Aut)THE WHITE SPACE (Comencini, It)
WHO'S AFRAID OF THE WOLF? (Prochakova, Cz)
THE WIND JOURNEYS (Guerra, Col)
WOLFY (Sigarev, Rus)
WOMAN WITHOUT PIANO (Rebollo, Sp)
WOMEN WITHOUT MEN (Neshat, Fr)
* reviews coming
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