Nasheed Qamar Faruqi

Jan 21, 2025 | sensesofcinema.com | Nasheed Qamar Faruqi

To attend the London Film Festival (LFF) in October 2024 is to witness the expression of a world out of joint and to be urgently in search of new and liberatory stories that also engage with cinema in compelling ways. The genocide in Palestine; imperialist war in Ukraine and the fragile state of U.S. democracy featured in the program, reflecting the ways in which our world is out of joint.

Nov 27, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Michael Brooke |Paul Cuff |Lisa Kerrigan |Nasheed Qamar Faruqi

As his first film in six years, Fallen Leaves, touches down in cinemas, we plot a beginner’s path through the beguilingly bleak and droll universe of Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki. 27 November 2023By Michael BrookeHe’s slowed down lately, with just five post-2000 features, but in the 1980s and 90s Aki Kaurismäki was one of the most prolific filmmakers in Europe – indeed, he and his older brother Mika were once responsible for one-fifth of the Finnish film industry’s annual feature output.

Nov 22, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Paul Cuff |Lisa Kerrigan |Nasheed Qamar Faruqi |Ibrahim Azam

The epic saga of Gance’s 1927 masterwork – both its original production and the painstaking, decades-long efforts to reconstruct it from surviving prints – displays some of the fearless single-mindedness and megalomaniac ambition of the emperor himself. From our December 2016 issue. 22 November 2023By Paul CuffNews, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month.

Nov 17, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Ibrahim Azam |Xavier Alexandre Pillai |Philip Horne |Nasheed Qamar Faruqi

It was a rainy London afternoon in 1985 when I first saw Black Narcissus, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1947 masterpiece – this beautiful, troubling movie that I love, admire and doubt. My impressions of the film have evolved since that first viewing as a seven-year-old girl in her great-aunt’s East Finchley lounge. I have learned more – about the Archers (as Powell and Pressburger branded themselves and their team of collaborators), about colonialism and about movies.

Nov 17, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Ibrahim Azam |Nasheed Qamar Faruqi |Xavier Alexandre Pillai |Philip Horne

The new film from Todd Haynes confronts us with the private reverberations of our appetite for celebrity scandal, says Ibrahim Azam, one of the critics on this year's LFF Critics Mentorship Programme. 17 November 2023By Ibrahim AzamSince the advent of the tabloid, we’ve all become addicted to sensationalism. Scandals sell, especially when they concern our beloved celebrities. They scratch that itch of curiosity we all feel about famous lives.