Lillian Crawford

1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | Lou Thomas |Sam Wigley |Josh Slater-Williams |Lillian Crawford

If we could award cool points to composers, Ludwig Göransson would have scored plenty. Leaving aside his extensive work producing Childish Gambino – Donald Glover’s rap alter ego – and credits on tunes by Stormzy, Adele and Lykke Li, Göransson already has two Oscars. The Swedish musician bagged his first best original score statue for frequent collaborator Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther (2018) and the other for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer (2023).

3 weeks ago | bfi.org.uk | Josh Slater-Williams |Lillian Crawford |Jonathan Romney |Nick Bradshaw

Winner of the BFI London Film Festival’s Audience Award, Four Mothers is Irish director Darren Thornton’s long-awaited follow-up to the acclaimed ex-con drama A Date for Mad Mary (2016). Co-written with brother Colin Thornton, it’s a loose adaptation of Mid-August Lunch (2008), Gianni Di Gregorio’s comedy about a man living with his mother in a small apartment, only to get saddled with three additional old women – all of them strangers – during an Italian holiday.

Nov 28, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Jason Anderson |Sophia Satchell-Baeza |Lillian Crawford |Clara Bradbury-Rance

Clair Titley’s short and shocking documentary tells the story of Hamatsu Tomoaki, who in 1998 was cast on a Japanese TV show to spend 15 months naked in an apartment, surviving on winnings from entering magazine contests. 28 November 2024As Hamatsu Tomoaki prepared to leave his Fukushima home and head to Tokyo in hopes of succeeding as a comedian, his parents gave him this advice: “Whatever you do, don’t get naked.” This may seem unusual.

Nov 22, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Lillian Crawford |Clara Bradbury-Rance |David West

The stage musical Wicked is relentless. One song bleeds into the next, with little respite to catch breath as the first act hurtles its way towards the events of The Wizard of Oz. What will strike audiences while watching the movie adaptation of Wicked is that this film is only the musical’s first act, and yet at 160 minutes it is almost the same length as the entire stage production.  This is a good thing.

Nov 21, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Sophia Satchell-Baeza |Lillian Crawford |Clara Bradbury-Rance

“Whenever I think of you, the taste of mango appears in my mouth. I’m transported back to all the times we ate them together.” With this opening address to her mother, filmmaker Chloe Abrahams ushers forth a stream of dreamlike images. The Taste of Mango, the British-Sri Lankan artist’s striking debut feature, is a domestic documentary portrait with a reparative and therapeutic purpose.