London Film Festival Tag Archive

Film Festival, Live Action

DN LFF09: The Double Hour – Giuseppe Capotondi

The thing I love most about cinema is how much it constantly surprises me. I was making the dash across London, from the BFI to the Vue Leicester Square,

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Documentary, Film Festival

DN LFF09: The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights – Emmett Malloy

If The White Stripes were movie characters, they’d be pretty unrealistic and as a viewer you’d have a hard job believing all their quirks and oddities. A

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN LFF09: Trimpin: The Sound of Invention – Peter Esmonde

Hailing from Germany’s Black Forest region, the artist simply known as Trimpin is a sonic experimenter, who combines the roles of inventor, engineer and

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Film Festival, Live Action

DN LFF09: The Road – John Hillcoat

'The Road' is a rare commodity in today’s movie industry, an apocalyptic film that relies on subtlety and imagination, instead of CGI and special effects.

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Film Festival, Live Action

DN LFF09: The Informant! – Steven Soderbergh

I’m not a big fan of Steven Soderbergh, there I’ve said it, it’s out in the open now……please don’t kill me!! I think I always kidded myself that I

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF09: Men on the Bridge – Asli Özge

Today’s LFF interview comes from Asli Ozge whose debut feature Men on the Bridge began as a documentary concept to explore the distinct lives of three

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Film Festival, Live Action

DN LFF09: The Exploding Girl – Bradley Rust Gray

"A bit of small time drama can be a good thing every now and again." DN falls for the subtle charms of Bradley Rust Gray's 'The Exploding Girl'.

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN LFF09: Paper Heart – Nicholas Jasenovec

Do you believe in true love? If so how do you go about finding that special, once in a lifetime person? These are the questions that send Charleyne Yi and a

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Animation, Film Festival

DN LFF09: Fantastic Mr Fox – Wes Anderson

Growing up, the books of Roald Dahl were an important part of my childhood and even now they still have pride of place on my bookshelf. Some of my earliest

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN LFF09: 45365 – Bill Ross & Turner Ross

Brothers and co-directors Bill & Turner Ross discuss their vérité feature doc which explores the daily lives of the inhabitants of a small American town.

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Film Festival, Live Action

DN LFF09: Bad Lieutenant – Werner Herzog

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans was definitely one of the films I was most looking forward to at this year’s London Film Festival, I mean Werner

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN LFF08: The Betrayal – Ellen Kuras

It’s the time of year when I get to pretend I’m hard done by; slaving away in darkened cinemas, gorging on the finest films the Times BFI 52nd

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