London film festival
Iranian family road trip movie wins top prize at London film festival
Panah Panahi’s Hit the Road wins award for ‘distinctive film-making that captures essence of cinema’
Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent
17, Oct, 2021 @3:30 PM
Bull review – a gangland revenge shocker with Neil Maskell on vicious form
You don’t expect soft from Maskell and you don’t get it, in Paul Andrew Williams’s queasy criminal underworld
Peter Bradshaw
16, Oct, 2021 @9:20 PM
Earwig review – twisty body-horror noir threatens to bite
Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s first English-language feature is intriguing, but its nightmarish dentures slant needs a mouthful of narrative
Peter Bradshaw
15, Oct, 2021 @9:05 PM
‘I wanted this film to be 100% Somali’: the fight to make The Gravedigger’s Wife
Khadar Ayderus Ahmed, who directed the acclaimed drama, reveals the struggle to portray his community ‘with dignity and compassion’
Hibaq Farah
15, Oct, 2021 @12:00 PM
‘You are the dog in space’: inside Asif Kapadia’s new VR short, Laika
With his new animation, the Oscar-winning documentary maker – and former VR cynic – is exploring how the technology might revolutionise the way we experience cinema
Paul MacInnes
15, Oct, 2021 @11:20 AM
Azor review – eerie conspiracy thriller about the complacency of the super-rich
Andreas Fontana’s debut feature is an unnervingly subtle drama about a Swiss private banker visiting clients in Argentina during the period of the military junta and ‘disappearances’
Peter Bradshaw
13, Oct, 2021 @9:40 PM
The Phantom of the Open review – Brit sporting underdog movie right on par
Mark Rylance stars in this amiably daft film about real-life golfing eccentric Maurice Flitcroft, who gatecrashed the British Open in the 70s
Peter Bradshaw
12, Oct, 2021 @10:00 PM
Belfast review – Kenneth Branagh’s euphoric eulogy to his home city
Nightmarishness meets nostalgia as Jamie Dornan and Judi Dench star in a scintillating Troubles-era coming-of-age tale
Peter Bradshaw
12, Oct, 2021 @11:19 AM
Ron’s Gone Wrong review – a cheeky tech spin on ET
A lonely boy and a sparky bot team up for in a tender film that dials up the charm but swerves the big-tech questions
Peter Bradshaw
09, Oct, 2021 @3:30 PM
I made a film that’s designed to be lost – and that’s not so different from Netflix | Charlie Shackleton
The Afterlight is a collage of fragments with a single 35mm print – but it has more in common with digital media than the illusion of instant access suggests
Charlie Shackleton
07, Oct, 2021 @9:56 AM
The Harder They Fall review – Idris Elba rides into trouble in garishly violent western
Jeymes Samuel’s gonzo revenge western, with a cast including Elba, Regina King, and Zazie Beetz is enjoyable, if face-splatteringly brutal
Peter Bradshaw
06, Oct, 2021 @8:32 PM
‘People of colour were less than human’: how The Harder They Fall redefines the western
Directed by London-born Jeymes Samuel, the movie with an all-black cast and strong female characters was always going to be unique, but the experience was also shaped by Covid
Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent
06, Oct, 2021 @4:23 PM
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