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It was with a sad slow-mo wave that we bid farewell to the BFI London Film Festival for another year. The festival closed in typically grand fashion with a Gala screening of Mike Newell’s Great Expectations. Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes and Jeremy Irvine were in attendance on the red carpet and the after party at Battersea Power Station certainly drew the festival to a dramatic and well-earned close.
The 56th London Film Festival has hosted over 200 feature films in just under two weeks including Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone, which won the Best Film Of The Festival Award on Saturday (This is the fourth year of the standalone awards but a second win for Audiard, who won in 2009 for A Prophet) and Beasts of The Southern Wild, which scooped up the prestigious Sutherland Award for the most original and imaginative film of the festival. All award winners can be viewed here.
In a year dominated by blockbusters, the 56th BFI London Film Festival has proved there is a wealth of award winning, upmarket and affluent films to look forward to for over the next couple of months and well into 2013.
Over the course of the festival, we have been keeping you up to date via this dedicated BFI blog through reviews and video posts. We hope it has helped to educate, excite and even get some of you closer to the festival and films within it. To bring the festival to an appropriate close, watch our final video below with a tearful eye.
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REVIEWS
It’s the opening of the BFI and what better way to kick off the 56th London Film Festival than to pick a film which was crafted at the Three Mills Studios in East London and is the latest great offering from the quirky director who brought us the classic Nightmare before Christmas and The Corpse Bride.
If you’re a fan of French cinema, Michael Haneke’s Amour is a must-see film this November. As soon as it screened at the Cannes Festival, it was clearly very special and was the obvious choice to win the Palme d’Or. But be prepared, it’s a gritty, matter of fact look at what happens in later life as the aging process takes over a couple’s world.
It’s the beginning of an exciting new week at The BFI London Film Festival and the order of this evening is The Sapphires, the debut feature film from resident Aussie, Wayne Blair. Inspired by true events, it’s a gutsy, upbeat and at times satirical story of four girls with one dream.
On the rainiest of Wednesday nights, the DCM faithful padded over a sodden red carpet into a packed-out UK premiere of End of Watch – the new cop thriller by the writer of Training Day, David Ayer. The influences really show too – the action is stark and brutal, with sombre down moments and tension hitting fever pitch at the grand finale.
On the rainiest of Wednesday nights, the DCM faithful padded over a sodden red carpet into a packed-out UK premiere of End of Watch – the new cop thriller by the writer of Training Day, David Ayer. The influences really show too – the action is stark and brutal, with sombre down moments and tension hitting fever pitch at the grand finale.
The young characters of My Brother the Devil live in a world of perpetual violence, gang feuds and abuses both chemical and physical. It’s a world where a legitimate road to success is all-but invisible, and brash machismo – often backed-up by cold steel – is an ugly substitute for ambition.
You attend the opening of a showcase such as this knowing you are going to witness something special but never truly expecting what your about to see.Having seen the film at its premiere the previous week and loving every minute of it, seeing the ideas, creations and the making behind the film was even more fascinating (note to all potential attendees – see the movie first).
Great Expectations Closing Gala
Film fans and stars took to the red carpet on Sunday 21st October for the BFI’s glittering closing gala at London’s Odeon Leicester Square featuring the European Premiere of Great Expectations.