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London Film Festival · 2016

London Film Festival 2016

Treasures

In addition to the features below, there will be two Curt McDowell short film showcases.

Programme

17 films · 5 reviews

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Adieu Bonaparte

Hsitorical drama set during the French occupation of Egypt.

(Country: Egypt, France; Year: 1985; Director: Youssef Chahine; Writer: Youssef Chahine, Yousry Nasrallah; Stars: Michel Piccoli, Mohsen Mohieddin, Patrice Chéreau, Mohsena Tewfik, Christian Patey, Gamil Ratib, Taheya Cariocca, Claude Cernay, Mohamad Dardiri, Hassan El Adl, Tewfik El Dekn, Seif El Dine, Hassan Husseiny, Farid Mahmoud, Hoda Soltan)

Beat The Devil

Ensemble noir send up.

(Country: UK, US, Italy; Year: 1953; Director: John Huston; Writer: Claud Cockburn, Truman Capote, John Huston, Anthony Veiller, Peter Viertel; Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre, Edward Underdown, Ivor Barnard, Marco Tulli, Bernard Lee, Mario Perrone, Giulio Donnini, Saro Urzì, Juan de Landa, Aldo Silvani, Dave Crowley)

Daughters Of The Dust

Review preview for Daughters Of The Dust

Dash gracefully binds together her connections and contradictions - the point where the past meets the present, where the decision to stay or go is made, where both belief systems can combine.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
Portrait of Gullah family on the brink of migration.

(Country: US, UK; Year: 1991; Director: Julie Dash; Writer: Julie Dash; Stars: Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Barbarao, Trula Hoosier, Umar Abdurrahamn, Adisa Anderson, Kaycee Moore, Bahni Turpin, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Tommy Redmond Hicks, Tony King, Cornell Royal, Vertamae Grosvenor, Sherry Jackson, Ervin Green)

Full review

Hell Drivers

Review preview for Hell Drivers

Hell Drivers is a gem.

Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
An ex-con trucker tries to expose his boss's rackets.

(Country: UK; Year: 1957; Director: Cy Endfield; Writer: John Kruse, Cy Endfield; Stars: Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan, William Hartnell, Wilfrid Lawson, Sidney James, Jill Ireland, Alfie Bass, Gordon Jackson, David McCallum, Sean Connery, Wensley Pithey, George Murcell, Marjorie Rhodes)

Full review

Hospital

Restored documentary about the Metropolitan Hospital in NYC.

(Country: US; Year: 1970; Director: Frederick Wiseman; Stars: Eugene Friedman, Stanley Friedman, Robert Schwartz)

The Informer

An IRA man betrays a killer to the police, thinking he is his mistress's lover.

(Country: UK; Year: 1929; Director: Arthur Robison; Writer: Benn W Levy, Rolf E Vanloo, based on the book by Liam O'Flaherty; Stars: Lya De Putti, Lars Hanson, Warwick Ward, Carl Harbord, Dennis Wyndham, Janice Adair, Daisy Campbell, Craighall Sherry, Ellen Pollock, Johnny Butt, Dorothy Green, Ray Milland)

Treasures gala

Junoon

An obsessed Indian Nawab falls for an Anglo-Indian woman against the backdrop of the 1857 Indian Mutiny.

(Country: India; Year: 1979; Director: Shyam Benegal; Writer: Shyam Benegal, Ruskin Bond, Ismat Chughtai, Satyadev Dubey; Stars: Jalal Agha, Nafisa Ali, Tom Alter, Shabana Azmi, Ismat Chughtai, Benjamin Gilani, Karan Kapoor, Kunal Kapoor, Sanjana Kapoor, Shashi Kapoor, Geoffrey Kendal, Jennifer Kendal, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Deepti Naval, Pearl Padamsee)

King Of Jazz

Restored revue, centred on King of Jazz’ bandleader Paul Whiteman and his orchestra.

(Country: US; Year: 1930; Director: John Murray Anderson, Pál Fejös; Writer: Harry Ruskin, Edward T Lowe Jr, Charles MacArthur; Stars: Paul Whiteman, John Boles, Laura La Plante, Jeanette Loff, Glenn Tryon, William Kent, Slim Summerville, Boys The Rhythm, Kathryn Crawford, Carla Laemmle, Stanley Smith, George Chiles, Jack White, Frank Leslie, Walter Brennan)

Memories Of Underdevelopment (Memorias Del Subdesarrollo)

Charting the life of an intellectual, who decides to stay in Cuba following the 1959 revolution.

(Country: Cuba; Year: 1968; Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea; Writer: Edmundo Desnoes, Edmundo Desnoes, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea; Stars: Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados, Eslinda Núñez, Omar Valdés, René de la Cruz, Yolanda Farr, Ofelia González, Jose Gil Abad, Daniel Jordan, Luis López)

Manhattan

Review preview for Manhattan

Allen's finest screenplay to date, filled with expostulating characters with relationship difficulties and hilarious interludes about the human condition.

Scott Macdonald · 5 out of 5
Woody Allen falls for his best friend's mistress, but is he really more in love with New York itself?

(Country: US; Year: 1979; Director: Woody Allen; Writer: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman; Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep, Anne Byrne Hoffman, Karen Ludwig, Michael O'Donoghue, Victor Truro, Tisa Farrow, Helen Hanft)

Full review See: Profile of Meryl Streep

One-Eyed Jacks

A betrayed outlaw makes a bid for revenge.

(Country: US; Year: 1961; Director: Marlon Brando; Writer: Guy Trosper, Calder Willingham, Charles Neider; Stars: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Katy Jurado, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens, Larry Duran, Sam Gilman, Timothy Carey, Miriam Colon, Elisha Cook Jr., Rodolfo Acosta, Tom Webb, Ray Teal, John Dierkes, Philip Ahn)

Phantasm

Review preview for Phantasm

You can turn it upside down, inside out and back-to-front and you might be able to work most of it out, but there will always be one thing that doesn't fit.

Gator MacReady · 4 out of 5
Baffling Seventies horror flick about a scary tall mortician, killer dwarfs and sci-fi spheres

(Country: US; Year: 1979; Director: Don Coscarelli; Writer: Don Coscarelli; Stars: Reggie Bannister, Angus Scrimm, A Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Kathy Lester)

Full review

Private Property

Two drifters follow a rich housewife to her home and try to insinuate themselves into her house.

(Country: US; Year: 1960; Director: Leslie Stevens; Writer: Leslie Stevens; Stars: Kate Manx, Corey Allen, Warren Oates, Robert Ward, Jerome Cowan, Jules Maitland)

Santi - Vina

Thai Buddhist melodrama that was lost for decades.

(Country: Thailand; Year: 1954; Director: Thavi Na Bangchang; Writer: Thavi Na Bangchang, Robert G North, Vichit Khunavud; Stars: Poonpun Rangkhavorn, Rayvadi Siriwilai)

The Small World Of Sammy Lee

Review preview for The Small World Of Sammy Lee

Newley's acutely balanced performance lets us see the fear emerge in flashes as if he were coming up for air.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A seedy strip club compere tries to stay one step ahead of heavies out to collect his gambling debts.

(Country: UK; Year: 1963; Director: Ken Hughes; Writer: Ken Hughes; Stars: Anthony Newley, Julia Foster, Robert Stephens, Wilfrid Brambell, Warren Mitchell, Miriam Karlin, Kenneth J. Warren, Clive Colin Bowler, Toni Palmer, Harry Locke, Al Mulock, Cyril Shaps, Roy Kinnear, Derek Nimmo, Harry Baird)

Full review

A Woman Of The World

A moral crusader from small town America meets a tattooed countess.

(Country: US; Year: 1925; Director: Malcolm St Clair; Writer: Pierre Collings, Carl Van Vechten; Stars: Pola Negri, Charles Emmett Mack, Holmes Herbert, Blanche Mehaffey, Chester Conklin, Lucille Ward, Guy Oliver, Dot Farley, May Foster, Dorothea Wolbert, Robert Dudley, Anthony Jowitt)

You Were Never Lovelier

A nightclub dancer who winds up working in a hotel when his money runs out, experiences romantic complications with the daughter of the owner.

(Country: US; Year: 1942; Director: William A Seiter; Writer: Michael Fessier, Ernest Pagano, Delmer Daves, Carlos A. Olivari, Sixto Pondal Ríos; Stars: Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou, Isobel Elsom, Leslie Brooks, Adele Mara, Gus Schilling, Barbara Brown, Douglas Leavitt, Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra, Kirk Alyn, Larry Arnold, Stanley Brown, George Bunny, Catherine Craig)