#2016 bfi london film festival

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

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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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2016/10/9 60th BFI London Film Festival "Una" Premiere @

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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書くと、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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Manchester by the Sea (2016, Kenneth Lonergan)

16/06/2024

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RATE ME by Fyzal Boulifa from La Distributrice de Films on Vimeo.

A portrait of teenage escort, 'Coco'.

Director, screenwriter : Fyzal Boulifa Cast : Zehra Zorba, Leo Hatton, James Pierce, Terry Noble, Rytis Sadauskas, Zoe Price, Ellie Gardner, Clark Curran, Robert J Francis, Cecilia Noble, Debra Marie Mawdsley, George Welton, Demilade Adesanya, Natalie Callaghan, Zoie Smith, Saskia Chohan, Alex Morrison, Ava Sabrine Rosenthal DOP : Taina Galis Sound : Anna Bertmark Editing : Taina Galis, Fyzal Boulifa Set Designer: Tilly Shiner Costumes : Clare Rose Music: Felicita Producers : Taina Galis, Fyzal Boulifa Distribution: La Distributrice de Films Contact: info@ladistributrice.ca

FESTIVALS

Cannes, Quinzaine / Cannes, Director's Fortnight - Cannes, France, 2015 Guanajuato International Film Festival - Guanajuato, Mexico, 2015 Kratkofil International short Film Festival - Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2015 20th Sarajevo Film Festival - Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2015 Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival - Sao Paolo, Brazil, 2015 BFI London Film Festival - London, UK, 2015 Encounters Shot Film Festival - Bristol, UK, 2015 Hamptons International Film Fetsival - Hamptons, USA, 2015 Toronto International Film Festival - Toronto, Canada, 2015 Batumi International Art-House Film Festival - Batumi, Georgia, 2015 44th Festival du Nouveau Cinema - Montreal, Canada, 2015 51st Chicago International Film Festival - Chicago, USA, 2015 34th Uppsala International Short Film Festival - Uppsala, Sweeden 19th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur - Winterthur, Switzerland, 2015 38th Denver Film Festival - Denver, USA, 2015 Twin Cities Arab Film Festival - Minneapolis, USA 44th AFI Film Fest - Los Angeles, USA Leeds International Film Festival - UK, 2015 Geo Saizescu International Film Festival - Roumania, 2015 Zagreb Film Fest - Croatia, 2015 Leuven International Short Film Festival - Belgium, 2015 London Short Film Fest - UK, 2016 Sundance - USA, 2016 Solothum Film Festival - Switzerland, 2016 Las Palmas International Film Festival - Spain, 2016 Mecal Barcelona - Spain, 2016 Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival - Romania, 2016 Vilnius Film Festival- Lithuania, 2016 Madrid Film circle - Spain, 2016 Atlanta Film Festival - USA, 2016 Go Shorts - Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2016 Dallas Film Festival - Dallas, USA 2016 Indielisboa International Independent Film Festival - Lisbon, Portugal 2016 Kiev International Film Festival - Kiev, Ukraine 2016 Halifax Independent Filmmakers' Festival - Halifax, Canada Palm Springs Short Film Festival - Palm Springs, USA 2016 New Zeland International Film Festival - Wellington, New Zeland 2016 Lago International Film Festival - Lago, Italy 2016 Kinemastik International Short Film Festival - Malta 2016 DC Shorts Film Festival - Washington, USA 2016 Pacific Meridian International Film Festival - Vlasdivostock, Russia 2016

AWARDS

Best British Short at Leeds International Film Fetsival - UK, 2015 Live Action Short Special Mention for Innovative Storytelling au AFI Film Fest - USA, Los Angeles 2015 Honorable mention for Best International Short at Festival du nouveau cinéma, 2015 Honorable mention for Best International Short at TIFF, 2015 Illy Award, Directors' Fortnight - Cannes Films Festival, 2015

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*Filmmakers Anubhav Sinha and Hansal Mehta’s thriller Faraaz to hit the big screen on 3rd February 2023.*

*The film is produced by Bhushan Kumar and Sinha.*

Director Hansal Mehta is back with another hard-hitting story based on the real-life terrorist attack that ravaged a Dhaka cafe in 2016. After an overwhelming response at the BFI London Film Festival 2022 where it had a world premiere, the Zahaan Kapoor and Aditya Rawal starrer is set for theatrical release on the 3rd of February 2023.

Producer Anubhav Sinha added, “Faraaz is a story that needs to be told and Hansal has done justice to the story of the catastrophic event that shocked the world. It is a story about a hero who made a brave choice and celebrates the spirit of a young boy who stood tall for his loved ones.”

Filmmaker Hansal Mehta said, “To me, Faraaz is a story of our polarised times. Through the one event that rocked Dhaka — the 2016 attack on the Holey Artisan cafe — I’ve tried to explore the broader theme of violence and what really drives young, vulnerable minds towards it. Designed as a nail biting thriller that plays out over one tense night, my attempt with Faraaz has also been to shine a light on the immense courage and humanity that it takes to stand up against violence. Because standing up against bigotry and the carnage it triggers is the only way to defeat it.”

Producer Bhushan Kumar said, “After an overwhelmingly positive response at the BFI premiere, we are excited to finally bring this untold story of a young boy to the world. Faraaz will surely strike a chord in your heart as it celebrates bravery, friendship, and humanity at its core. I am glad to be associated with such an important film.”

The film is directed by Hansal Mehta, and produced by Bhushan Kumar, Anubhav Sinha, Sahil Saigal, Sakshi Bhatt and Mazahir M. The film is jointly produced by T-Series and Benaras Media works in association with Mahana Films. It stars Zahaan Kapoor, Aditya Rawal, Juhi Babbar, Aamir Ali, Sachin Lalwani, Palak Lalwani, and Reshham Sahaani in the cast.

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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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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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Cillian Murphy interview // Anthropoid BFI premiere [x]

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Amy Adams | Valentino Couture gown | BFI London Film Festival | 2016