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London Film Festival

2006

Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat
Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat

Now in its 50th year, the London Film Festival aims to bring the very best from festivals around the world and make it directly accessible to the British public. Regularly attended by those who make and star in the films, it also gives the public the chance to ask questions and find out more about the film industry. This year the LFF features a special programme of films about what it means to grow up British. For those seeking something more unusual, it also has a strong strand of cutting edge experimental cinema.

This year's London Film Festival features the gala premiere of The Last King of Scotland, about a Scottish doctor working in Uganda under the rule of Idi Amin. Also featured will be Bobby, Emilio Estevez's film about the assassination of Robert F Kennedy, Sacha Baron Cohen's mockumentary Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan and the new 3D version of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. Read who won what.

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  • The Last King Of Scotland
    Review preview for The Last King Of Scotland

    It is a brave film that portrays Idi Amin not simply as a monster, but as a complex individual.

    Steve Harwood · 4 out of 5
    Ugandan dictator's rise to power as seen through the eyes of a young doctor.
  • Wild Tigers I Have Known
    Review preview for Wild Tigers I Have Known

    Rather too rarefied to begin with, Archer’s profound story soon shapes up into a reasonably gripping potboiler, beautifully shot and acutely tense.

    Richard Mellor · 3 out of 5
    Sexual awakening of a teenager who tries to engage with the object of his affections by posing as a woman on the phone.
  • The Go Master
    Review preview for The Go Master

    The film is as introspective as the man, while explanation is as minimalist as the screenplay.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    The long and quiet life of a Chinese Go Master in Japan.
  • The Premonition
    Review preview for The Premonition

    The minor characters are beautifully realised, intriguing and often sympathetic despite their sometime unpleasantness.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A lawyer rejects his bourgeois past and moves to the inner city in an attempt to engage with ordinary life.
  • Our Daily Bread
    Review preview for Our Daily Bread

    Prepare to be absorbed, fascinated, disturbed.

    Val Kermode · 4 out of 5
    An investigation into where supermarket food comes from.
  • I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
    Review preview for I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

    Tsai has erected a somnolent reverie on alienation, desire and restlessness.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    Migrants in Malaysia dream of sleep, recovery, and each other.
  • Invisible Waves
    Review preview for Invisible Waves

    On paper, Invisible Waves may sound like just another Asian action policier or revenge thriller, but in reality it is altogether more abstract and elusive than that.

    Anton Bitel · 4.5 out of 5
    A man, dogged by guilt, goes on the run after poisoning his lover.
  • The Masseur
    Review preview for The Masseur

    Gaying by numbers.

    Martin Gray · 2 out of 5
    A masseur in the Phillippines tries to come to terms with his father's death.
  • The Singer
    Review preview for The Singer

    The Singer is a healthy reminder of the unequivocal natural force that Depardieu can summon when he's in focus and on target.

    Paul Griffiths · 4 out of 5
    A nightclub singer falls in love with a much younger woman.
  • Great Expectations
    Review preview for Great Expectations

    One of the finest book to film adaptations of all time.

    Scott Macdonald · 4.5 out of 5
    Classic adaptation of Dickens' novel about a orphan who finds a mystery inheritance propels him into high society.

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