London Film Festival · 2018
14 films · 5 reviews
(Country: Saudi Arabia; Year: 2018; Director: Mahmoud Sabbagh)
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Simon Amstell; Writer: Simon Amstell; Stars: Colin Morgan, Anna Chancellor, Phénix Brossard, Joel Fry, Jack Rowan, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Michèle Belgrand, James Lailey, Ellie Kendrick, Kriss Dosanjh, Arnab Chanda, Joanne Howarth, Jessie Cave, Alex Lowe, Mariam Haque)
This isn't the finest example of the documentary art, but it may well be one of the most enjoyable films you see this year.
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Tommy Avallone; Writer: Tommy Avallone, Max Paolucci; Stars: Bill Murray, John Barnhardt, Johnathan Davis, Albert DiGiacomo)
(Country: New Zealand; Year: 2018; Director: Madeleine Sami, Jackie van Beek; Writer: Madeleine Sami, Jackie van Beek; Stars: Madeleine Sami, Jackie van Beek, James Rolleston, Celia Pacquola, Ana Scotney, Jaquie Brown, Jemaine Clement, Angella Dravid, Cohen Holloway, Oscar Kightley, Gentiane Lupi, Rose Matafeo, Karen O'Leary, Chris Parker, Yvette Parsons)
(Country: Belarus, US, Germany, Russia; Year: 2018; Director: Darya Zhuk; Stars: Alina Nasibullina, Ivan Mulin, Anastasia Garvey, Ilya Kapanets, Yury Borisov, Lyudmila Razumova, Svetlana Anikey, Natalya Onishenko, Vyacheslav Shakalido, Alina Nasibullina, Ivan Mulin, Anastasia Garvey, Ilya Kapanets, Yury Borisov, Lyudmila Razumova)
(Country: France; Year: 2018; Director: Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern; Writer: Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern; Stars: Jean Dujardin, Yolande Moreau, Jean-Benoît Ugeux, Jana Bittnerova, Oleg Kupchik, Xavier Mathieu, Jean Dujardin, Yolande Moreau, Jean-Benoît Ugeux, Jana Bittnerova, Oleg Kupchik, Xavier Mathieu)
Gilliam’s script cannot quite stand the excesses of his own imagination.
(Country: Spain, UK, France, Portugal; Year: 2018; Director: Terry Gilliam; Writer: Terry Gilliam, Tony Grisoni, based on the book by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra; Stars: Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgård, Olga Kurylenko, Joana Ribeiro, Óscar Jaenada, Jason Watkins, Sergi López, Jordi Mollà, Rossy de Palma, William Miller, Paloma Bloyd, Viveka Rytzner, Bruno Sevilla, Mario Tardón)
Laugh Gala
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Carl Hunter; Writer: Frank Cottrell Boyce; Stars: Bill Nighy, Jenny Agutter, Sam Riley, Tim McInnerny, Alice Lowe, Louis Healy, John Westley, Bill Nighy, Jenny Agutter, Sam Riley, Tim McInnerny, Alice Lowe, Louis Healy, John Westley)
I've seen it described as a film with a twist but that suggests it's got just one. It's full of them, it's made of them, it reels and gyres and tumbles into something special.
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Boots Riley; Writer: Boots Riley; Stars: Tessa Thompson, Armie Hammer, Steven Yeun, Terry Crews, Lakeith Stanfield, David Cross, Patton Oswalt, Danny Glover, Omari Hardwick, Jermaine Fowler, Kate Berlant, Marcella Bragio, Tom Woodruff Jr., Teresa Navarro, Michael X. Sommers)
(Country: Argentina, Brazil, France; Year: 2018; Director: Ana Katz)
Hall makes you feel the constant battle between exhaustion, frustration, and compassion,
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Andrew Bujalski; Writer: Andrew Bujalski; Stars: Regina Hall, Haley Lu Richardson, Dylan Gelula, AJ Michalka, Shayna McHayle, Lea DeLaria, James Le Gros, Jana Kramer, Brooklyn Decker, Lawrence Varnado, David Bernon, Brian Bogart, Gerald Brodin, Chris V. Brown, John Bryant)
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2018; Director: Paprika Steen; Writer: Jakob Weis; Stars: Sofie Gråbøl, Paprika Steen, Lars Brygmann, Jacob Lohmann, Patricia Schumann, Fanny Bornedal, Karen-Lise Mynster, Lars Knutzon, Jakob Randrup, Sofie Gråbøl, Paprika Steen, Lars Brygmann, Jacob Lohmann, Patricia Schumann, Fanny Bornedal)
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Whitney Horn, Lev Kalman; Writer: Sarah Dziedzic, Whitney Horn, Lev Kalman; Stars: Benjamin Crotty, Laetitia Dosch, Marianna McClellan, Michael Murphy, María Cid, André Frechette III, Travis Nutting, Kim-Anh Schreiber, Libby Gery, Benjamin Crotty, Laetitia Dosch, Marianna McClellan, Michael Murphy, María Cid, André Frechette III)
This is joyful, beautiful, up-lifting - and bleak too, a clarion call to direct climate action at the personal and the political levels.
(Country: France, Iceland, Ukraine; Year: 2018; Director: Benedikt Erlingsson; Writer: Ólafur Egilsson, Benedikt Erlingsson; Stars: Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Juan Camillo Roman Estrada, Jörundur Ragnarsson)
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