Shadows @ LFF56th BFI London Film Festival
10 - 21 OCTOBER 2012
Opening film: FRANKENWEENIE
Closing film: GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Surprise film: SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
Galas:
AMOUR
ARGO
BEYOND THE HILLS
CHAKRAVYUH
CROSSFIRE HURRICANE
ERNEST & CELESTINE
HYDE PARK ON HUDSON
A LIAR'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
THE MANXMAN
THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO IDEOLOGY
QUARTET
THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST
THE SAPPHIRES
THE SESSIONS
SIGHTSEERS
SONG FOR MARION
2 0 1 2 A W A R D S ...
Film:
RUST AND BONE
Doc (Grierson Award):
MEA MAXIMA CULPA
First Feature (Sutherland Award): BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD
British Newcomer:
Sally El Hosaini (MY BROTHER THE DEVIL)
BFI Fellowship:
Tim Burton (FRANKENWEENIE) and Helena Bonham Carter (GREAT EXPECTATIONS)
RICH'S BEST OF THE FEST 2012:- RUST AND BONE
- SIGHTSEERS
- AMOUR
- NO
- OUR CHILDREN
- KEEP THE LIGHTS ON
- ERNEST & CELESTINE
- ARGO
- MY BROTHER THE DEVIL
- BEYOND THE HILLS
DAILY FESTIVAL UPDATES, including short reviews of every film seen...
10 + 10 (Hou/et al, Tai)
ACCESSION (Rix, SA)
* AFTER LUCIA (Franco, Mex)
AIYYAA (Kundalkar, Ind)
AMOUR (Haneke, Fr)
ANTIVIRAL (Cronenberg, Can)
ARGO (Affleck, US)ATOMIC AGE (Klotz, Fr)
BAYOU BLUE (Lambert/McMahon, US)
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (Zeitlin, US)BEAUTIFUL 2012 (Kim, Chn)
BEWARE OF MR BAKER (Bulger, US)
BEYOND THE HILLS (Mungiu, Rom)BIG STAR: NOTHING CAN HURT ME (DeNicola, US)
BLACK ROCK (Aselton, US)* BLANCANIEVES (Berger, Sp)
* BLOOD (Murphy, UK)
THE BODY (Paulo, Sp)
BOY EATING THE BIRD'S FOOD (Lygizos, Gr)
BREAKING THE FRAME (Nitoslawska, Can)
BROKEN (Norris, UK)
CAESAR MUST DIE (Taviani/Taviani, It)CANNED DREAMS (Gauriloff, Fin)
CAPTIVE (Mendoza, Ph)
CELESTE & JESSE FOREVER (Krieger, US)
THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE (Burns/Burns/McMahon, US)
CHAKRAVYUH (Jha, Ind)CHILDREN OF SARAJEVO (Begic, Bos)
* CITADEL (Foy, Ire)
CLIP (Milos, Ser)
THE COMEDIAN (Shkolnik, UK)
COMPLIANCE (Zobel, US)CRAZY EYES (Sherman, US)
CROSSFIRE HURRICANE (Morgan, US)
DEAD EUROPE (Krawitz, Aus)THE DEAD MAN AND BEING HAPPY (Rebollo, Fr)
DEATH OF A MAN IN THE BALKANS (Momcilovic, Ser)
THE DELAY (Pla, Mex)
DOOMSDAY BOOK (Kim, Kor)
DORMANT BEAUTY (Bellocchio, It)
THE DREAM AND THE SILENCE (Rosales, Sp)
DREAMS FOR SALE (Nishikawa, Jpn)
* EASY MONEY (Espinosa, Den)
EASY MONEY II (Najafi, Swe)
EAT SLEEP DIE (Pichler, Swe)
END OF WATCH (Ayer, US)EPILOGUE (Manor, Isr)
ERNEST & CELESTINE (Renner/Patar/Aubier, Fr)THE ETHNOGRAPHER (Rosell, Arg)
EVERY DAY (Winterbottom, UK)* EVERYBODY HAS A PLAN (Piterbarg, Arg)
EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY (Jude, Rom)
A FEW HOURS OF SPRING (Brize, Fr)
FILL THE VOID (Burshtein, Isr)
A FISH (Park, Kor)
FOR LOVE'S SAKE (Miike, Jpn)
FOR NO GOOD REASON (Paul, UK)
* FOUR (Sanchez, US)
FRANCINE (Cassidy, US)
FRAGMENTS OF KUBELKA (Kudlacek, Aut)
FRANKENWEENIE (Burton, UK)FREE ANGELA AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS (Lynch, US)
GIMME THE LOOT (Leon, US)
GINGER & ROSA (Potter, UK)GIRLS AGAINST BOYS (Chick, US)
GOOD VIBRATIONS (D'Sa/Leyburn, UK)
LE GRAND SOIR (Delepine/Kervern, Fr)
GRASSROOTS (Gyllenhaal, US)THE GREAT BIRD RACE (Dyekjaer, Den)
GREAT EXPECTATIONS (Newell, UK)THE GREAT KILAPY (Gamboa, Por)
HAPPY NEW YEAR, GRANDMA! (Esnal, Sp)
HELPLESS (Byun, Kor)
HELTER SKELTER (Ninagawa, Jpn)
HERE AND THERE (Mendez, Mex)
* A HIJACKING (Lindholm, Den)
HOLD BACK (Djaidani, Fr)
HORSES OF GOD (Ayouch, Mor)
HOUSE WITH A TURRET (Neymann, Ukr)
THE HUNT (Vinterberg, Den)
HYDE PARK ON HUDSON (Michell, UK)I CARRIED YOU HOME (Chantarangkul, Tha)
I, ANNA (Southcombe, UK)I'M GOING TO CHANGE MY NAME (Saakyan, Arm)
IMAGINE (Jakimowski, Pol)
IN ANOTHER COUNTRY (Hong, Kor)IN APRIL THE FOLLOWING YEAR (Somumjarn, Tha)
IN THE FOG (Loznitsa, Blr)
IN THE HOUSE (Ozon, Fr)THE INTERVAL (di Costanzo, It)
* LES INVISIBLES (Lifshitz, Fr)
IT WAS THE SON (Cipri, It)
THE JEFFREY DAHMER FILES (Thompson, US)
* JOHN DIES AT THE END (Coscarelli, US)
JOURNAL DE FRANCE (Depardon/Nougaret, Fr)
JUST THE WIND (Fliegauf, Hun)
KAUWBOY (Koole, Ned)
KEEP THE LIGHTS ON (Sachs, US)
KELLY + VICTOR (Evans, UK)KEY OF LIFE (Uchida, Jpn)
KINSHASA KIDS (Wajnberg, Bel)
KISS OF THE DAMNED (Cassavetes, US)
LAURENCE ANYWAYS (Dolan, Can)
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA in 4K (Lean, UK)LEGENDS OF VALHALLA: THOR (Jonasson, Ice)
A LIAR'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY (Jones/Simpson/Timlett, UK)LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (Kiarostami, Fr)
LINES OF WELLINGTON (Sarmiento, Fr)
LIVING (Sigarev, Rus)
LONG LIVE THE FAMILY! (Sedlacek, Cz)
LORE (Shortland, Aus)
LOVE IN THE GRAVE (Vondracek, Cz)LOVE STORY (Habicht, NZ)
LOVE, MARILYN (Garbus, US)
MADE IN ASH (Grofova, Svk)
* MATERIAL (Friemond, SA)
MEA MAXIMA CULPA (Gibney, US)MEKONG HOTEL (Weerasethakul, Tha)
MEMORIES LOOK AT ME (Song, Chn)
MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN (Mehta, Can)MUSEUM HOURS (Cohen, Aut)
MY AMITYVILLE HORROR (Walker, US)
MY BROTHER THE DEVIL (Hosaini, UK)MY GERMAN FRIEND (Meerapfel, Ger)
NAMELESS GANGSTER: RULES OF THE TIME (Yoon, Kor)
NEIGHBOURING SOUNDS (Kleber, Br)
NO (Larrain, Chl)NORMAL SCHOOL (Murga, Arg)
OUR CHILDREN (Lafosse, Bel)PAINLESS (Medina, Fr)
PARADISE: LOVE (Seidl, Aut)
THE PATIENCE STONE (Rahimi, Afg)PEDDLERS (Bala, Ind)
THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO IDEOLOGY (Fiennes, UK)
PILGRIM HILL (Barrett, Ire)
THE PIROGUE (Toure, Sen)
THE POOR STOCKINGER... (Fowler, UK)
POST TENEBRAS LUX (Reygadas, Mex)PUNK (Sauvaire, Fr)
QUARTET (Hoffman, UK)REALITY (Garrone, It)
THE RED AND THE BLUE (Piccione, It)
THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST (Nair, US)THE REPENTANT (Allouache, Alg)
A RESPECTABLE FAMILY (Bakshi, Irn)
THE ROAD: A STORY OF LIFE AND DEATH (Isaacs, UK)
ROBOT & FRANK (Schreier, US)
ROMANCE JOE (Lee, Kor)
ROOM 237 (Ascher, US)
RUST AND BONE (Audiard, Fr)THE SAMURAI THAT NIGHT (Akahori, Jpn)
THE SAPPHIRES (Blair, Aus)SAVE YOUR LEGS! (Hicklin, Aus)
THE SECRET DISCO REVOLUTION (Kastner, Can)
THE SESSIONS (Lewin, US)
SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (McDonagh, US)
SHELL (Graham, UK)SHIP OF THESEUS (Gandhi, Ind)
SHORT STORIES (Segal, Rus)
SIGHTSEERS (Wheatley, UK)SILENCE (Collins, Ire)
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (Russell, US)
SIMON KILLER (Campos, US)LA SIRGA (Vega, Col)
SISTER (Meier, Swi)* SLEEPER'S WAKE (Berk, SA)
SOLAR ECLIPSE (Marecek, Cz)
SONG FOR MARION (Williams, UK)SPIKE ISLAND (Whitecross, UK)
STARLET (Baker, US)
THE STONING OF ST STEPHEN (Vila, Sp)
* THE SUMMIT (Ryan, Ire)
LE TABLEAU (Laguionie, Fr)
TALL AS THE BAOBAB TREE (Teicher, Sen)
TANGO LIBRE (Fonteyne, Fr)
* TEDDY BEAR (Matthiesen, Den)
TEY (Gomis, Sen)
THURSDAY TILL SUNDAY (Sotomayor, Chl)
TOMORROW (Gryazev, Rus)
TURNED TOWARDS THE SUN (Olliver, UK)
VILLAGE AT THE END OF THE WORLD (Gavron, UK)
VILLEGAS (Tobal, Arg)
VIOLETA WENT TO HEAVEN (Wood, Chl)
VIRGIN MARGARIDA (Azevedo, Por)
WADJDA (Mansour, Sau)
* THE WALL (Polsler, Aut)
WASTELAND (Athale, UK)* THE WE AND THE I (Gondry, US)
WEST OF MEMPHIS (Berg, US)WHAT IS LOVE (Mader, Aut)
WHAT RICHARD DID (Abrahamson, Ire)
WHITE ELEPHANT (Trapero, Arg)WINTER NOMADS (von Sturler, Swi)
WINTER OF DISCONTENT (Batout, Egy)
WISH YOU WERE HERE (Darcy-Smith, Aus)
WITH YOU, WITHOUT YOU (Vithanage, Sri)
WOLF CHILDREN (Hosoda, Jpn)
YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHING YET (Resnais, Fr)
ZARAFA (Benzancon/Lie, Fr)
ZAYTOUN (Riklis, Isr)* reviews coming
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