London Film Festival · 2017
24 films · 8 reviews
(Country: Australia; Year: 2017; Director: Stephen McCallum)
Napier - who is surely going to step up from short films soon - tightly controls the mood.
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Gordon Napier; Writer: Morayo Akandé; Stars: Moyo Akandé, Morayo Akandé, Clive Russell)
Showing as part of short film showcase: The Thrill Of The Chase
Nuanced and thoughtful, alert to the individual suffering behind the headlines, cogniscent of the bigger picture.
(Country: New Zealand, UK; Year: 2017; Director: Toa Fraser; Writer: Glenn Sandring; Stars: Mark Strong, Jamie Bell, Abbie Cornish, Ben Turner)
(Country: Thailand; Year: 2017; Director: Nattawut Poonpiriya; Writer: Tanida Hantaweewatana, Vasudhorn Piyaromna, Nattawut Poonpiriya; Stars: Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying, Eisaya Hosuwan, Teeradon Supapunpinyo, Chanon Santinatornkul, Thaneth Warakulnukroh, Sarinrat Thomas, Ego Mikitas, Pasin Kuansataporn, Sahajak Boonthanakit, Kanjana Vinaipanid, Yuthapong Varanukrohchoke, Nopawat Likitwong, Vittawin Veeravidhayanant, Suwijak Mahatthanachotwanich, Narwin Rathlertkarn)
Samurai revenge stories are not exactly thin on the ground and it takes something special to get attention today, but Blade Of The Immortal is just that.
(Country: Japan, UK; Year: 2017; Director: Takashi Miike; Writer: Hiroaki Samura, Tetsuya Oishi; Stars: Takuya Kimura, Hana Sugisaki, Sôta Fukushi, Hayato Ichihara, Erika Toda, Kazuki Kitamura, Chiaki Kuriyama, Shin'nosuke Mitsushima, Ken Kaneko, Yôko Yamamoto, Ebizô Ichikawa, Min Tanaka, Tsutomu Yamazaki)
Strand gala
(Country: India; Year: 2017; Director: Anurag Kashyap; Writer: KD Satyam)
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2017; Director: Birgitte Stærmose; Writer: Kim Fupz Aakeson, Kim Fupz Aakeson, Birgitte Stærmose; Stars: Gustaf Skarsgård, Danica Curcic, Ulrich Thomsen, Astrid Grarup Elbo)
(Country: South Africa; Year: 2017; Director: Michael Matthews; Writer: Sean Drummond, Sean Drummond; Stars: Zethu Dlomo, Kenneth Fok, Warren Masemola, Garth Breytenbach, Anthony Oseyemi, Vuyo Dabula, Mduduzi Mabaso, Kenneth Nkosi, Brendon Daniels, Jerry Mofokeng, Dean Fourie, Aubrey Poolo, Hamilton Dhlamini, Lizwi Vilakazi)
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Aaron Katz; Writer: Aaron Katz; Stars: Lola Kirke, Zoë Kravitz, John Cho, Greta Lee, Ricki Lake, Michelle Forbes, Nelson Franklin, Reeve Carney, Jessica Parker Kennedy, James Ransone, Todd Louiso, Marianne Rendón, Abraham Lim, Gabriela Flores, Ted Stavros)
The Safdies invest their own knowledge of their home turf to give it all a frenetic and authentic sense of urgency.
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Benny Safdie, Joshua Safdie; Writer: Ronald Bronstein, Joshua Safdie; Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Robert Pattinson, Barkhad Abdi, Ben Safdie, Taliah Webster, Marcos A. Gonzalez, Cliff Moylan, Rose Gregorio, Shaun Rey, Souleymane Sy Savane, Buddy Duress, Phil Cappadora, Mahadeo Shivraj, Ratnesh Dubey, Jibril Goodman, Laurence Blum)
(Country: Cambodia; Year: 2017; Director: Jimmy Henderson; Writer: Jimmy Henderson, Michael Hodgson; Stars: Celine Tran, Jean-Paul Ly, Laurent Plancel, Sok Visal, Tharoth Sam, Chiva Pech, Dara Our, Kong Ka Chan, Lida Duch, Sisowath Siriwudd, Rous Mony, Dy Sonita, Savin Phillip, Sovann Rapha, Tara Vy)
(Country: Hong Kong, China; Year: 2017; Director: John Woo; Writer: Jukô Nishimura, John Woo; Stars: Hanyu Zhang, Masaharu Fukuyama, Stephy Qi, Ji-won Ha, Jun Kunimura, Angeles Woo, Naoto Takenaka, Yasuaki Kurata, Takumi Saitô, Nanami Sakuraba, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Tao Okamoto, Kohji Katoh)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2017; Director: Won Shin-yeon ; Writer: Hwang Jo-yun, Kim Young-ha ; Stars: Sul Kyoung-gu, Kim Nam-gil, Kim Seol-Hyun)
A sharp script full of camp and an emotional punch that knocks us over at the end.
(Country: US; Year: 1945; Director: Michael Curtiz; Writer: Ranald MacDougall, from the book by James M. Cain.; Stars: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, Bruce Bennett)
Ozturk's cinematography would be stunning even without such remarkable subjects, and the film is a visual delight from start to finish.
(Country: Australia; Year: 2017; Director: Jennifer Peedom; Writer: Robert Macfarlane, Jennifer Peedom; Stars: Willem Dafoe)
(Country: Germany, Denmark, Sweden; Year: 2016; Director: Tarik Saleh; Writer: Tarik Saleh; Stars: Fares Fares, Ger Duany, Slimane Dazi, Mohamed Yousry, Hichem Yacoubi, Hania Amar, Yasser Ali Maher, Mari Malek, Ahmed Abdelhamid Hefny, Nael Ali, Ahmed Selim, Tareq Abdalla)
(Country: UK, France; Year: 2017; Director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire; Writer: Jonathan Hirschbein, Nick Saltrese; Stars: Joe Cole, Vithaya Pansringarm, Nicolas Shake, Billy Moore, Panya Yimmumphai, Somlock Kamsing, Pornchanok Mabklang, Sura Sirmalai, Sakda Niamhom, Komsan Polsan, Chaloemporn Sawatsuk)
As entertaining as the above is with its two charismatic leads, it is not an especially novel path for a 'crime couple' thriller to take, and it is in the last act that Racer kind of goes off the rails.
(Country: Belgium, Netherlands, France; Year: 2017; Director: Michaël R Roskam; Writer: Thomas Bidegain, Noé Debré, Michaël R. Roskam; Stars: Matthias Schoenaerts, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Kerem Can, Sam Louwyck, Jean-Benoît Ugeux, Igor van Dessel, Stefaan Degand, Corentin Lobet, Gaël Maleux, Guray Nalbant, Dimitry Loubry, Charley Pasteleurs)
(Country: US; Year: 1932; Director: Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson; Writer: Armitage Trail, Ben Hecht, Seton I. Miller, John Lee Mahin, W.R. Burnett, Seton I. Miller, John Lee Mahin, W.R. Burnett, Howard Hawks; Stars: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, C. Henry Gordon, George Raft, Vince Barnett, Boris Karloff, Purnell Pratt, Tully Marshall, Inez Palange, Edwin Maxwell, Henry Armetta, Gus Arnheim, Eugenie Besserer)
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Eshom Nelms, Ian Nelms; Writer: Eshom Nelms, Ian Nelms; Stars: John Hawkes, Octavia Spencer, Robert Forster, Anthony Anderson, Clifton Collins Jr., Michael Vartan, Daniel Sunjata, James Lafferty, Jeremy Ratchford, Don Harvey, Dale Dickey, Caity Lotz, Michelle Lang, Robyn Lively, Bart Johnson)
We see the killer at home, observe him moving through life like an ordinary man, but something is always subtly off key.
(Country: Hungary; Year: 2016; Director: Árpád Sopsits; Writer: Árpád Sopsits; Stars: Károly Hajduk, Gábor Jászberényi, Zsolt Anger, Péter Bárnai, Zsolt Trill, Zsófia Szamosi, Mónika Balsai, András Réthelyi, Piroska Móga, Valentin Venczel, Dóra Sztarenki, Péter Barbinek, Eszter Csépai, Zsolt Dér, Gergely Kaszás)
(Country: Argentina, France, Spain; Year: 2017; Director: Santiago Mitre; Writer: Mariano Llinás, Santiago Mitre; Stars: Ricardo Darín, Dolores Fonzi, Erica Rivas, Christian Slater, Elena Anaya, Paulina García, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Gerardo Romano, Alfredo Castro, Rafael Alfaro, Marcelo Longobardi, Gabriela Pastor, Manuel Trotta)
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Rory Kennedy)
(Country: China; Year: 2017; Director: Yukun Xin; Writer: Yukun Xin; Stars: Wu Jiang, Yang Song, Wenkang Yuan)
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