#2016 bfi london film festival

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Manchester by the Sea (2016, Kenneth Lonergan)

16/06/2024

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Rosamund Pike attends the ‘A United Kingdom’ Opening Night Gala screening during the 60th BFI London Film Festival on October 5, 2016 in London, England.

Ph. Dave J Hogan

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Sebastian Stan Scolds “Hypocrite” Trump at ‘The Apprentice’ U.K. Premiere: “Do You Really Trust This Person to Lead a Country?”

Stan, who portrays Donald Trump in Ali Abbasi's new movie, was asked whether this film debuting so close to the U.S. election could sway voters: "He's been trying to censor this movie, and at the same time, he claims he acknowledges free speech. I can't think of anything more hypocritical."

BY LILY FORD

Sebastian Stan has branded former U.S. president Donald Trump a hypocrite who has attempted to “censor” his new movie, The Apprentice.

The Marvel actor spoke at the BFI London Film Festival premiere of Ali Abbasi’s movie about Trump’s rise to power in 1970s and ’80s New York — in which he stars as the real estate mogul-turned-Republican politician — with the teachings of mentor Roy Cohn (played by Jeremy Strong) guiding him on his ascension.

The cast and crew, including Stan, Strong, Abbasi and screenwriter Gabriel Sherman, appeared on the red carpet at the BFI’s Royal Festival Hall in the U.K. capital.

When asked whether this film debuting so close to the U.S. election could sway voters, Stan told The Hollywood Reporter: “I don’t know, but what I do hope is that people, regardless of their opinion, are curious enough to try to dig deeper. Because I think we’re living in a world where it’s so easy to be handed an opinion everywhere you turn. And I know a lot of people love social media, and that’s where they go for information and for things. You’re being told what to think. You’re being told what to do.”

But, the Marvel star continued, “If you have any inkling of interest, go and really ask yourself: ‘Who is this man? Do you really know? Do you really trust this person to lead a country?’ He’s been trying to censor this movie, and at the same time, he claims that he acknowledges free speech … I can’t think of anything more hypocritical. So at the end of the day, it’s about him as a character. Forget the politics and just go in there and use your instinct and ask yourself: Do you trust this man? That’s what the movie is about.”

The feature film opened in roughly 1,700 theaters across the U.S. last weekend after its debut in Cannes and pulled in an anemic $1.6 million in its first weekend. Trump lashed out against the film after the numbers came in.

“A FAKE and CLASSLESS Movie written about me, called, The Apprentice (Do they even have the right to use that name without approval?), will hopefully “bomb.” It’s a cheap, defamatory and politically disgusting hatchet job, put out right before the 2024 Presidential Election, to try and hurt the Greatest Political Movement in the History of our Country,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

Sherman told THR: “It’s not surprising [that Trump lashed out]… You’ve seen the film, the first lesson that Roy Cohn teaches him is: attack, attack, attack. So Trump hasn’t seen the movie, but he’s clearly following the rules that are in the movie.”

Sherman also said part of the inspiration for this film was to show Trump as carrying on Cohn’s legacy, as sources who worked on the 2016 Trump campaign told him the businessman was just “using Roy’s lessons.”

The Apprentice received rave reviews and an 8-minute standing ovation after its Cannes Film Festival premiere in May.

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BFI LFF 2024

BLITZ by Steve McQueen will open the 68th BFI London Film Festival

Steve McQueen's World War II drama Blitz is premiering at the 68th BFI London Film Festival. McQueen, who directed, produced, and wrote the film, is returning to the festival after winning Academy Awards and BAFTAs. Blitz tells the story of George, a nine-year-old boy living in wartime London. When his mother, Rita, sends him to the countryside for safety, the film follows George's journey back to London and Rita's search for her missing son.

This is McQueen's third time opening the LFF, following Widows in 2018 and Mangrove in 2020. In 2016, he received the BFI Fellowship at the festival. Blitz will be released in select cinemas on November 1 and will later be available for streaming on Apple TV+ starting from November 22. The 68th BFI London Film Festival will take place from October 9 to 20. Screenings will be held at various London venues, including the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall, BFI Southbank, and BFI IMAX. The festival will also feature screenings at partner cinemas across the U.K.

We will share the trailer on our social media platforms, including Instagram and X.

Stay tuned!

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BFI London Film Festival Awards during the 60th BFI London Film Festival at Banqueting House in London, England - October 15, 2016

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LOVE from Reka Bucsi on Vimeo.

LOVE is a short film describing affection in 3 different chapters, through an impact on a distant solar system.

Premier at the 66th Berlinale Shorts Competition 2016 Nominated for Best Short Film at the European Film Awards 2017 Official competition at Sundance 2017, SXSW 2016, AFI Fest 2016, London Film Festival 2016

LOVE is this week's Staff Pick Premiere! Read more about it here: vimeo.com/blog/post/love

FESTIVAL DISTRIBUTION: Zsófia Herczeg - hrczgzsf@gmail.com

Awards 2016/17 Riverrun film festival - Best short film Friss Hús Film Festival – Best Animation Pázmány Film Festival – Best Hungarian Film Athens International Film Festival – Award: 3rd place Animanima International Animation Festival – Special Jury Award Ars Independent Festival – Best Animation 3D Wire – Best European Animation BFI London Film Festival – Student Jury's Special Mention Primanima Animation Festival – Best Debut Film and Audience Award Uppsala International Short Film Festival – European Film Awards Nomination Alter-Native International Short Film Festival – Jury Special Mention New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival – Hokkaido Governor Award International Bhosphorus Film Festival – Best Short Film Zubroffka International Short Film Festival – Best Original Score and Eastward Window's Best Film Hungarian Film Critic's Award – Best Animation Hungarian Film Awards – Best Animation

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The Royal Hotel

Written by Kitty Green & Oscar Redding

dir. Kitty Green

2023年10月6日　BFI NFT1 (London Film Festival)

『ジョンベネ殺害事件の謎』『アシスタント』のキティ・グリーンの最新作。2016年のドキュメンタリー『Hotel Coolgardie』を原案としている。オーストラリアに遊びに来ていた二人のカナダ人女性、ハンナ（ジュリア・ガーナー）とリズ（ジェシカ・ヘンウィック）は途中で資金が尽き、手っ取り早く現金を稼ぐ手段として荒野に立つパブ「ザ・ロイヤル・ホテル」で短期間泊まり込みでアルバイトをすることになる。

実話ベースとのことで、オーストラリアの荒野の酒場というものは実際にそういうものなのかもしれないという信憑性はある作りにはなっている。外国から迷い込んだ若い女性の視線から描いた作品に対してこのような感想を抱くのは間違っているのは承知の上で��くと、シスヘテロ男性による女性のカジュアルなモノ化を描写した映画というよりも正直ホラーかゾンビ映画のように見えてしまった。先住民のキャラクターも登場するものの、あくまでも背景としての存在にとどまる。東洋系のリズがどちらかというと「意識の高い」理由を持ち出して男たちに同情的になってつきあってやるのも個人的にはすっきりしない。ハンナの一人称で体験した恐怖と田舎の荒くれ男たちの後進性についての映画、という印象。

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Hit Man 

Director Richard Linklater Stars Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Retta USA 2023 Language English 1hr 53mins Colour

A load more fun than your average Nietzsche-quoting movie 

There’s a bunch of people in the media who reckon Glen Powell is on the verge of proper movie stardom. I learned long ago that I have no talent for picking winners, so I won’t offer an opinion on that, but he’s certainly co-written himself a blinder of a role here.

Gary Johnson (Powell) is a geeky lecturer in philosophy and psychology in New Orleans. As his students point out in the opening scene, there’s a huge gap between his full-throttle philosophical positions and his meek lifestyle. 

But Gary has an improbable side hustle (and, as it happens, there was a real Gary Johnson who did both these jobs.) He helps the police with stings on people who are trying to hire a hit man. Initially, he’s one of the crew listening in in the van, but then there’s an an emergency and he gets ‘promoted’ to the person playing the killer for hire. And, to everyone’s surprise, it turns out he has a flair for acting and improv.

For a guy currently best known for appearing in Top Gun: Maverick, the chance to go full Peter Sellers and do a wild variety of looks and accents must have been pretty irresistible. Of course, that can be a recipe for something truly terrible but, fortunately, Powell is very good and very funny in these scenes.  

One of the tricky bits for a movie like this is settling down from a series of entertaining set pieces into a main plot that has to keep us interested. So often, the need to tell a conventional story makes everything very plodding. I won’t spoil what happens in this one but Richard Linklater manages the transition smoothly, aided by the chemistry between Powell and Adria Arjona.

Beyond that, nailing the tone in a crime comedy is something that trips up filmmakers all the time. Is it OK to be silly when murder is a possibility? How do you balance a feeling of peril with good jokes? When is something dark comedy and when is it just sadistic? The post-Tarantino 1990s, in particular, were rife with films that got that balance horribly wrong and ended up both glib and nasty.

Linklater has made some of my favourite movies, but he likes to try a lot of things and doesn’t always succeed. His last three films are generally considered to be not up to scratch. The two I’ve seen have been disappointing but in very different ways.

With Hit Man, though, he’s got it absolutely right: it’s the good kind of daft but with some interesting ideas being discussed, the casting is great (from Retta and Sanjay Rao as Gary’s police colleagues to all people trying to hire a cheap assassin) and it rattles along.

Powell has actually been around for a very long time – he first worked with (his fellow Texan) Richard Linklater way back in 2006* – but if his time in the spotlight has come, this film makes an extremely good case for him.

*I first remember him from Linklater’s 2016 movie Everybody Wants Some!!, but the first thing I would have seen him on screen in was 2005’s The Wendell Baker Story. That film – which I think was unfairly dismissed – was made by the Wilson brothers, and Powell certainly has a touch of both Owen and Luke in Hit Man.

I saw Hit Man at the  BFI London Film Festival 2023

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October 16th 2016.

Armie at BFI London Film Festival for "Free Fire". ❤️❤️

thank you to @you.a.heather for these beautiful memories..

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Gugu Mbatha-Raw | Brock Collection Resort 2017 ensemble • Christian Louboutin sandals | BFI London Film Festival | 2016

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Manchester by the Sea (2016, Kenneth Lonergan)

11/11/2023

Manchester by the Sea is a 2016 film written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan.

The main actors include Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler and Lucas Hedges.

Lee Chandler leads a private and solitary life in Boston, where he works as a doorman and handyman. One day he receives the news that his brother Joe has had a heart attack and quickly returns to his hometown, Manchester-by-the-Sea, where he manages to arrive only after Joe's death. Lee remains in Manchester to organize the funeral and to be close to his sixteen-year-old nephew Patrick, Joe's son, for whom he discovers he has been appointed guardian.

In any case, the two are forced by events to re-establish a difficult relationship: Patrick has his own adolescent problems made more bitter by the death of his father, and Lee, due to his constant depression, finds himself unable to manage them.

Through a series of flashbacks, meanwhile, Lee's past is reconstructed: he once lived happily in the town with his wife Randi and their three children, until one day, due to his carelessness while he was drunk, he caused the fire in their house in which their children perished.

On January 23, 2016, the film premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. It was subsequently presented at other film festivals such as Telluride Film Festival, Rome Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and the London Film Festival.

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Rosamund Pike attends the ‘A United Kingdom’ Opening Night Gala screening during the 60th BFI London Film Festival on October 5, 2016 in London, England.

Ph. Mike Marsland

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Cillian Murphy interview // Anthropoid BFI premiere [x]

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60th BFI London Film Festival - 'Their Finest' Premiere

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David Tennant in the rain on the red carpet - at the BFI London Film Festival awards in 2016

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Remembering some interesting facts about "Call me by your name"

During an interview at the BFI London Film Festival in October 2017, director Luca Guadagnino said he had already planned to film at least one sequel to the movie, stating, "I want to do a sequel because Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel - they are all gems. The texture we built together is very consistent. We created a place in which you believe in the world before them. They are young but they are growing up. If I paired the age of Elio in the film with the age of Timothée, in three years' time Timothée will be 25, as would Elio by the time the second story was set." This would mean that the sequel would be released in 2020. In the source novel, Elio and Oliver do meet again fifteen years after their first encounter, but Guadagnino said that the plot of his sequel would not necessarily follow the coda in the novel.

Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet did not have to audition for the film. Chalamet was cast in 2013, after his agent introduced him to director Luca Guadagnino. When Guadagnino decided to do the film years later, he called Chalamet. Guadagnino cast Hammer after "falling in love with him" when the director saw him in The Social Network (2010), as he told Out magazine in October 2017.

Oliver appears to have a special affinity for the song "Love My Way." Richard Butler actually said the song was written for gays struggling with their sexuality, which Oliver clearly is. The opening lyrics of the song are "There's an army on the dance floor," and there is literally an Armie on the dance floor.

Director Luca Guadagnino originally planned for Sufjan Stevens to voice the narrator.

Oliver kissing Elio's feet was improvised by Armie Hammer.

In September 2015, James Ivory told The New York Times Style Magazine that he was planning to direct an adaptation of André Aciman's novel Call Me By Your Name, and that Shia LaBeouf and Greta Scacchi would be in the cast. In May 2016, it was announced that Luca Guadagnino would direct instead with a screenplay co-written by him, Ivory and Walter Fasano, with Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet and Michael Stuhlbarg in the cast.

"Later" is said 19 times by the end of the movie.

In an October 2017 interview with Variety, screenwriter James Ivory said that both Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet had it written into their contracts that they would not have to do full-frontal nudity, even though Ivory's screenplay stipulated that both characters would appear fully nude. Director Luca Guadagnino told The Hollywood Reporter he was not interested in including explicit sex scenes in the film because the tone would have been very different from what he was looking for. He wanted the audience to completely rely on the emotional travel of these people and feel first love.

 On its premiere night, the movie received a ten-minute standing ovation, which was the longest standing ovation ever at the New York Film Festival.