London film festival 2016
Steve McQueen honoured with BFI fellowship at London film festival
The Oscar-winning film-maker and celebrated contemporary artist is the first black director or producer to receive the prestigious award
Vanessa Thorpe
15, Oct, 2016 @11:05 PM
On the Milky Road review – booze, bears and illicit affairs in wartime Bosnia
Two-time Palme d’Or winner Emir Kusturica directs and stars as a milkman who falls for Monica Bellucci’s beautiful fugitive, with typically delirious results
Peter Bradshaw
14, Oct, 2016 @11:17 AM
The Woman Who Left review – haunting drama of guilt, God and gloomy revenge
Venice Golden Lion winner Lav Diaz adapts Tolstoy to the Philippines with an intense, four-hour morality tale of a wrongly imprisoned woman seeking revenge
Peter Bradshaw
14, Oct, 2016 @10:17 AM
Mindhorn review – Mighty Boosh creator's funny, farcical nightmare
Julian Barratt plays with fanatical gusto a deluded, failed actor given an unlikely chance to redeem his career in this familiarly Partridgean comedy
Peter Bradshaw
10, Oct, 2016 @2:53 PM
Mining for greatness: land grabs and lyricism in Ivan Sen’s Goldstone
The director’s latest ‘outback noir’ is a broodingly poetic tale that pits nature and spiritualism against corporate greed. It may be the year’s most important film
Rowan Righelato
10, Oct, 2016 @9:02 AM
On the Road review – Michael Winterbottom's erotic music doc is a euphoric joy
The director adds a romantic relationship story to his documentary about alt-rockers Wolf Alice to create a difficult cinematic hybrid that’s his best film in years
Peter Bradshaw
10, Oct, 2016 @8:04 AM
Ritzy cinema living wage strike disrupts BFI London film festival
Staff at Brixton cinema stage second walkout over pay this year, forcing cancellation of two BFI events
Sarah Butler and Damien Gayle
07, Oct, 2016 @5:03 PM
Six in 10 British films have no named black characters – study
At BFI London film festival event, actor David Oyelowo says people of colour have been ‘expunged from Britain’s history’
Esther Addley
06, Oct, 2016 @6:34 PM
A Moving Image: the film Spike Lee might have made about Brixton
It features an unforgettable cast railing against gentrification. Will Shola Amoo’s tribute help stop the exodus of locals – and the influx of gourmet jerk chicken shops?
Ashley Clark
06, Oct, 2016 @3:56 PM
Amma Asante on A United Kingdom: 'People were comforted a woman of colour was telling this story'
British director and its star David Oyelowo talked about the importance of making the film in Botswana, multiculturalism and film’s continuing lack of diversity
Andrew Pulver
05, Oct, 2016 @5:53 PM
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