The Florida Project 2017 Directed by Sean Baker Starring Bria Vinaite, Brooklynn Prince, Valeria Cotto, Willem Dafoe, Caleb Landry Jones and Macon Blair. SYNOPSIS: In the shadow of Disney World is a motel called The Magic Castle. Among the residents is six year old Moonee, who spends the summer months getting into mischief with her […]
61st London Film Festival Review – The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer, 2017. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Starring Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, Raffey Cassidy, Sunny Suljic, Bob Camp, and Alicia Silverstone. SYNOPSIS: A highly successful surgeon takes a teenage boy under his wing. But the boy’s behaviour turns sinister and the surgeon’s life starts to fall apart. Beware, as […]
61st BFI London Film Festival Review – Blade of the Immortal (2017)
Blade of the Immortal, 2017. Directed by Takashi Miike. Starring Takuya Kimura, Hana Sugisaki, Sôta Fukushi, and Kazuki Kitamura. SYNOPSIS: In ancient Japan, a young girl watches as her entire family are butchered by a master swordsman and his gang. Swearing vengeance, she seeks the help of an immortal samurai to train her for battle. When we talk […]
61st London Film Festival Review – The Meyerowitz Stories (New And Selected) (2017)
The Meyerowitz Stories (New And Selected), 2017. Directed by Noah Baumbach. Starring Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Elizabeth Marvel, Grace Van Patten, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Adam Driver, Judd Hirsch, Candice Bergen, Rebecca Miller, Danny Flaherty, Adam David Thompson, Ronald Peet, Matthew Shear, Michael Chernus, and Sigourney Weaver. SYNOPSIS: A dysfunctional family comes together when the […]
61st BFI London Film Festival Review – Last Flag Flying (2017)
Last Flag Flying, 2017. Directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne and J. Quinton Johnson. SYNOPSIS: Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry “Doc” Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine […]
61st London Film Festival Review – Call Me By Your Name (2017)
Call Me By Your Name, 2017. Directed by Luca Guadagnino. Starring Armie Hammer, Timothee Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg and Esther Garrel. SYNOPSIS: An American professor and his family are spending the summer at their Italian villa. His teenage son is captivated by the graduate student who arrives to work for his father. It’s a fascination that […]
61st BFI London Film Festival Review – Good Time (2017)
Good Time, 2017. Directed by Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie. Starring Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Taliah Webster, Buddy Duress and Barkhad Abdie. SYNOPSIS: Brothers Connie and Nik pull off a bank heist which, while it appears to go smoothly, ends up with the vulnerable Nik being caught and sent to Rikers. While […]
61st BFI London Film Festival Review – Wonderstruck (2017)
Wonderstruck, 2017. Directed by Todd Haynes. Starring Julianne Moore, Oakes Fegley, Millicent Simmonds, Michelle Williams, and Jaden Michael. SYNOPSIS: Two parallel stories. In the 1970s, young Ben is bereft after the death of his mother. A discovery among her possessions leads him to go in search of his father in New York. Back in the […]
The Best Short Films from the 61st BFI London Film Festival
Ben Robins with the best short films from the BFI London Film Festival… This year’s LFF was another seriously star-studded affair, with talks of Oscars and hefty awards-season releases sewn into almost every single conversation around. But some of the best talent on show this year actually ended up coming from the festival’s smallest showcase […]
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