London Film Festival · 2014
18 films · 14 reviews
The depiction of The Battle of Coronel is truly gripping.
(Country: UK; Year: 1927; Director: Walter Summers; Writer: Frank Bowden, John Buchan, Merritt Crawford, Harry Engholm; Stars: Roger Maxwell, Craighall Sherry)
Archive gala
(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Nick Fenton, Peter Strickland; Stars: Björk)
Sonic gala
Bennett Miller has secured his place at the forefront of directors who excel at character studies.
(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Bennett Miller; Writer: E Max Frye, Dan Futterman; Stars: Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Steve Carell, Anthony Michael Hall)
Ayer’s film doesn’t really have the script or plot to back up all the hardware.
(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: David Ayer; Writer: David Ayer; Stars: Brad Pitt, Logan Lerman, Shia LaBeouf, Scott Eastwood, Jim Parrack, Jon Bernthal, Jason Isaacs, Xavier Samuel, Michael Peña, Christina Ulfsparre, Kevin Vance, Brad William Henke, Eugenia Kuzmina, Anamaria Marinca, Branko Tomovic)
The kind of period drama that screams “festival launch” but doesn’t trust its audience enough to tell its story subtly or with any surprises.
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2014; Director: Morten Tyldum; Writer: Andrew Hodges, Graham Moore; Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Mark Strong, Charles Dance, Allen Leech, Tuppence Middleton, Rory Kinnear, Hayley Joanne Bacon, Steven Waddington, Tom Goodman-Hill, Matthew Beard, Hannah Flynn, Leigh Dent, Victoria Wicks)
Opening night
Too niche to reach
(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Alan Rickman; Writer: Alison Deegan, Jeremy Brock, Alan Rickman; Stars: Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Alan Rickman, Stanley Tucci, Helen McCrory, Jennifer Ehle, Steven Waddington)
Love gala
(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Jason Reitman; Writer: Jason Reitman, Erin Cressida Wilson; Stars: Adam Sandler, Ansel Elgort, Rosemarie DeWitt, Jennifer Garner, Judy Greer)
The energy and sheer visual bravura carry it along.
(Country: France, Canada; Year: 2014; Director: Xavier Dolan; Writer: Xavier Dolan; Stars: Anne Dorval, Antoine-Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément)
Dare gala
What is truly amazing about the film is the way cinematographer Dick Pope evokes Turner’s colour palette.
(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Mike Leigh; Writer: Mike Leigh; Stars: Tom Wlaschiha, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville)
Festival gala
A solid, and certainly heartfelt effort.
(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Jon Stewart; Writer: Jon Stewart, Maziar Bahari, Aimee Molloy; Stars: Gael García Bernal, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Golshifteh Farahani, Kim Bodnia, Dimitri Leonidas, Jason Jones, Andrew Gower, Haluk Bilginer, Nasser Faris, Nazanin Nour, Numan Acar, Arian Moayed, Amir El-Masry, Zarif Kabier, Arash Mokhtar)
Debate gala
War by any other name
(Country: Denmark, UK, South Africa; Year: 2014; Director: Kristian Levring; Writer: Anders Thomas Jensen, Kristian Levring; Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Eric Cantona, Douglas Henshall, Jonathan Pryce, Michael Persbrandt, Michael Raymond-James, Sean Cameron Michael)
Thrill gala
The flowing feel of the sea runs through Moore's animation, just as illuminated manuscript ran through Kells.
(Country: Ireland, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg, France; Year: 2014; Director: Tomm Moore; Writer: Will Collins, based on a story by Tomm Moore; Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Fionnula Flanagan, Pat Shortt, David Rawle, Jon Kenny, Lisa Hannigan)
Family gala
(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: James Kent; Writer: Vera Brittain, Juliette Towhidi; Stars: Kit Harington, Hayley Atwell, Dominic West, Emily Watson, Miranda Richardson, Alicia Vikander, Colin Morgan, Anna Chancellor, Taron Egerton, Charlotte Hope, Joanna Scanlan, Emily Bevan, Amanda Fairbank-Hynes, Jonathan Bailey, Xavier Atkins)
Centrepiece gala
(Country: China; Year: 2014; Director: Zhang Zhiliang; Writer: Yusheng Liang; Stars: Fan Bingbing, Huang Xiaoming, Vincent Zhao)
Cult gala
Witherspoon completely inhabits the role.
(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Jean-Marc Vallée; Writer: Nick Hornby, based on the book by Cheryl Strayed; Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Gaby Hoffmann, Michiel Huisman, Charles Baker, W. Earl Brown, Kevin Rankin, Brian Van Holt, Thomas Sadoski, J.D. Evermore, Nick Eversman, Leigh Parker, Mo McRae, Beth Hall, Cathryn de Prume)
Ferociously funny.
(Country: Argentina, Spain; Year: 2014; Director: Damián Szifron; Writer: Damián Szifron; Stars: Rita Cortese, Ricardo Darín, Nancy Dupláa, Darío Grandinetti, Oscar Martínez, Osmar Núñez, María Onetto, Erica Rivas, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Julieta Zylberberg)
Laugh gala
Ceylan explores such themes as moral responsibility, class and altruism with rigour.
(Country: Turkey, France, Germany; Year: 2014; Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan; Writer: Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan; Stars: Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbag)
Journey gala
The film takes on a masterful intesity as mental health as well as music begins to be at stake.
(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Damien Chazelle; Writer: Damien Chazelle; Stars: Miles Teller, Melissa Benoist, JK Simmons, Austin Stowell, Kavita Patil, Michael D Cohen, Tian Wang, Kofi Siriboe, Tarik Lowe, Marcus Henderson, CJ Vana, Calvin C Winbush, Rogelio Douglas Jr., Adrian Burks, Charlie Ian)
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