What’s Worth Seeing from an unconventional, largely online LFF 2020
This year’s London Film Festival has to be the most unusual to date, with many features being screened virtually for the first time,
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Viewers give LFF’s top prize to Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round
The most unconventional of London Film Festivals has come to a close with a virtual awards ceremony, whose winners were chosen by members
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LFF boss tells us What’s Worth Seeing in 2020
As coronavirus infections continue to gather pace across the UK – and the world – the London Film Festival is getting started in
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Raindance and London Film Festivals make more events free to public
As film festivals around the world continue to adapt to the coronavirus pandemic – with Cannes announcing only yesterday that it will stage
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Steve McQueen and Francis Lee to bookend London Film Festival
The organisers of the London Film Festival have announced the opening and closing night films for this year’s Covid-affected event. Steve McQueen’s Mangrove
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London Film Festival announces new post-Covid format, with full online programme
The organisers of the London Film Festival have announced a new format for this year’s event, which will take place just weeks after
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What’s Worth Seeing from the 2019 London Film Festival
All three and a half hours of Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman has come and gone – and with it, the London Film Festival
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Monos, Atlantics and White Riot among prize winners at LFF 2019
A co-production involving seven countries has been named the winner of the Official Competition at the 2019 London Film Festival. Alejandro Landes’ Monos
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BFI’s Tricia Tuttle tells us What’s Worth Seeing at LFF 2019
Another London Film Festival is beginning, giving audiences in London – and in many cases across the UK too – their first chance
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Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman to close the 2019 London Film Festival
The BFI has announced that Martin Scorsese’s first mob film since The Departed, thirteen years ago, will close this year’s London Film Festival
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Armando Iannucci’s take on David Copperfield to open 2019 London Film Festival
The organisers of the London Film Festival have announced that this year’s event will open with the European Premiere of Armando Iannucci’s take
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What’s Worth Seeing from the 2018 London Film Festival
With the dust settling after another star-studded London Film Festival, Maria Duarte has finally come back out into the light after watching up
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London Film Festival Awards are as topical as a news bulletin
A film about the sex-trafficking of African women in Vienna has won the top prize at the London film festival. There were also
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Head of LFF 2018 tells us What’s Worth Seeing
The pre Awards Season festival season is well under way, with Venice and Toronto behind us, Raindance coming to an end and the
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Half of LFF Competition Films Directed by Women
The BFI has announced the shortlist for this year’s Star of London award for Best Film at this year’s London Film Festival. Alice
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London Film Festival to premiere Mike Leigh’s Peterloo drama – in Manchester
The London Film Festival is to stage the UK premiere of Mike Leigh’s upcoming film about the Peterloo massacre – in Manchester. Mike
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Laurel & Hardy biopic to close London Film Festival
The 2018 BFI London Film Festival is to close with the upcoming biopic of the giants of early comedy cinema, Laurel & Hardy.
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Steve McQueen’s Widows to open London Film Festival 2018
The director of the Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen, is to open this year’s BFI London Film Festival with the international
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What’s Worth Seeing from the 2017 London Film Festival
It’s been another busy twelve days for Maria Duarte, sifting through the best that the London Film Festival has to offer, with at
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Harvey Weinstein’s shadow hangs over London Film Festival awards
One of Britain’s most successful directing exports, Paul Greengrass, has been honoured with the British Film Institute’s highest accolade, the BFI Fellowship, at
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