With tickets on sale from 27 FEB, it’s time to give BFI Flare 2020 a look. The rebranded LGBTIQ+ festival runs from 18 to 29 MAR at BFI Southbank & is a regular beacon of diversity on London’s alternative cinema scene. Here’s our handy guide to this year’s programme, including our ‘top ten best of the fest’.
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We went to see LITTLE JOE + Jessica Hausner In Conversation, opening event in our Featured Attraction of the week/month, THE CINEMA OF JESSICA HAUSNER at BFI Southbank (21 to 29 FEB). Here’s our RADIANT CIRCUS writeup.
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We caught up with Werner Herzog’s latest film FAMILY ROMANCE, LLC part of the DARE strand at the BFI London Film Festival (02 to 13 OCT). Here’s our RADIANT CIRCUS writeup.
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It’s already the second week & we’re only just catching up with this year’s BFI London Film Festival (02 to 13 OCT)… Good news is – despite plenty of sold out shows – there’s some great downlist cinema still to see. Here’s our RADIANT CIRCUS top ten best of the rest of the fest!
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Programmed by Sophie Monks Kaufman, a new season of films by Claire Denis featuring “some established bangers, some rarer gems” launches at BFI Southbank (JUN 2019). Here’s all you need to know.
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Chinese Visual Festival opens this week at BFI Southbank & King’s College London (02 to 09 MAY). Projecting “the very best in the cinema of the Chinese language speaking world” the programme combines special guests, rare screenings & plenty of Q&A. Here’s our guide to what’s on.
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An illustrated, personally inflected lecture first presented in 2014 by artist filmmaker Stuart Croft (1970-2015) is here re-performed and discussed by Stuart Croft Foundation trustees and artists Emma Bennett, Keira Greene and Anna Lucas.
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The friction between a group of British officers comes to a head as they plan their escape from a German prison camp.
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The lighter-than-air romance between a Czarist officer and a passport-less girl obliged to share a sleeper compartment on a train is tested when revolutionary zeal meets implacable loyalty in the heightened atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia. With live piano accompaniment by Meg Morley.
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Newly widowed Marlina receives an unexpected & unwelcome visit from gang leader Markus. He invites himself into her home, demands food for his gang of bandits & announces that they will take everything she has &, if time allows, will sleep with her. Let’s just say that Marlina doesn’t exactly yield to their demands…
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