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Sep 23, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Adam Nayman Festivals |Adam Nayman |Ginette Vincendeau |Saffron Maeve
Reviewed from the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. The Canada on display in Paul Schrader’s latest feature is less a country than a state of mind – the verdant, magic-hour manifestation of an American’s subconscious yearning for the moral high ground. It‘s the ‘true North strong and free’ sentiment literalised and beautified to the strains of some angelic electric guitar.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Ginette Vincendeau |Saffron Maeve |Ela Bittencourt |Nicolas Rapold
In real life, Pierre Goldman’s second trial (an appeal against the life sentence delivered by the first in 1974 for the murder of two female pharmacists) was a major political and media event in France.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Jessica Kiang Festivals |Jessica Kiang |Adam Nayman |Ginette Vincendeau
Reviewed from the 2024 Venice International Film FestivalIt’s hard to think of anything more dispiriting in Hollywood cinema right now, than the sight of a once-mighty star partnership running on the fumes of prior glories and reducing their previously buoyant on-and off-screen chemistry to the status of a laboured schtick.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Ginette Vincendeau
The programme brings together 14 groundbreaking projects from around the world, presented across multiple London venues. 22 August 2024The 68th BFI London Film Festival (9 to 20 October) in partnership with American Express is excited to announce the line-up for LFF Expanded, the festival’s programme of immersive art and extended reality works, running from 11 to 27 October 2024.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Guy Lodge |Adam Nayman |Ginette Vincendeau
In movies, a character’s drastic change in hairstyle tends to signal a cry for help, a splintering of the narrative timeline or, as repeatedly proves the case in The Outrun, some itchy balance of both.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Ginette Vincendeau |Molly Haskell
The 68th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express is delighted to announce that this year’s American Express Gala will be the European premiere of Elton John: Never Too Late on Thursday 10 October at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, with Elton John and directors R.J. Cutler and David Furnish in attendance.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Ginette Vincendeau |Molly Haskell |Ginette Vincendeau Obituaries
Blessed with stunning good looks, Alain Delon, who has died aged 88, was destined for stardom. Beauty, drive and charisma more than compensated for lack of formal training. Together with the good fortune of working with gifted filmmakers such as Luchino Visconti, René Clément, Jean-Pierre Melville and Joseph Losey, they made him one of the greatest stars of post-war French cinema, across both auteur and popular films.
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May 24, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Kelli Weston |Ginette Vincendeau |Saffron Maeve |Kelli Weston Festivals
Reviewed from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. In Coralie Fargeat’s second feature The Substance, Demi Moore plays Elisabeth Sparkle, a Hollywood star whose advancing age has since cast a shadowy veil over her celebrity. The actress-turned-fitness guru (perhaps more Olivia Newton-John than Jane Fonda) suddenly finds herself ousted from the helm of her aerobics show by network executive Harvey (Dennis Quaid), a winkingly named lecherous boor.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
bfi.org.uk | Bob Mastrangelo |David Parkinson |Ginette Vincendeau |Pasquale Iannone
Joss Ackland (29 Feb 1928 — 19 Nov 2023): character actor whose strong presence and workaholic tendencies led to a wide variety of roles (White Mischief; Lethal Weapon 2). The British-Irish actor, who has died aged 95, had a fine line in villainy and accents over many decades of memorable supporting turns in film and television.
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Jul 31, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Ginette Vincendeau
Unveiled at an online event today, the UK Global Screen Fund Data Hub is a brand-new resource providing the independent screen sector with international VOD data and insights on global demand for and value of UK content.
