#BFI London Film Festival 2022

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Lily James attends the BFI London Film Festival Luminous Gala at The Londoner Hotel on September 29, 2022 in London, England.

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throwback to one year ago in London ❤️

#10.08.2022

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✨ TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET-2022 FITS ✨

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Yesterday marked one year of the premiere screening of "The Good Nurse" during the BFI London Film Festival.

📸 Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images for Netflix.

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Jessica Henwick (wearing Atelier Versace) at the premiere of ''Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery'' during the 66th BFI London Film Festival on Sunday (16th October 2022).

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Happy Birthday Bill Forsyth the Scottish film director and screenwriter.

Born in Glasgow July 29th 1946 and educated at Knightswood School. On leaving aged 17, he answered an advertisement for a “Lad required for film company” and spent the next eight years helping make short documentary films.

Leaving documentary production in 1977, Forsyth wrote the scripts for Gregory’s Girl and That Sinking Feeling in the hope of breaking into feature films.

Obtaining finance, however, proved frustrating and problematic. The BFI Production Board rejected Gregory’s Girl three times. Forsyth later said, “I remember one torment of a meeting when I tried to explain that Gregory’s Girl was really a structuralist comedy… I suspect my script was too conventional although nobody actually told me as much.”.

That Sinking Feeling was eventually made in 1979 with amateur actors from the Glasgow Youth Theatre, including John Gordon Sinclair (who later took the lead in Gregory’s Girl , its tiny £5,000 budget was raised from a variety of sources.

Forsyth’s distinctive voice as writer-director is already apparent in this tale of a robbery of stainless steel sinks by a gang of unemployed Glasgow teenagers - intensely humanistic and humorous yet with an underlying seriousness of purpose. This ability to create a self-contained yet believable world with a keen sense of the absurd and bizarre in the everyday is perhaps only rivalled by the work of British television writer Alan Plater. The film opened to great popular and critical success at the Edinburgh and London Film Festivals but was unable to secure more widespread distribution.

Gregory’s Girl was Forsyth’s breakthrough film. This acutely observed story of adolescence and first love set in a Scottish new town was rapturously received by both critics and public alike. Forsyth’s reputation seemed to be secured by the success of his next venture, Local Hero, a first collaboration with producer David Puttnam.

In 1999 he made Gregory’s Two Girls as a sequel to Gregory’s Girl, with John Gordon Sinclair playing the same character, but it received mixed reviews.

Gregory's Girl, to me, is still a very funny film, but it feels dated, that's not to say that it hasn't stood the test of time with some folk, indeed The Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) showed a 4k version of the 1980 cult classic last August 1which was followed by a Q&A session with some of the cast including Gordon Sinclair(Gregory), Clare Grogan.

In 2022 the popular Scottish actor Peter Capaldi spoke of how Bill Forsyth saved him from living off pakora and lager after featuring him in Local Hero. The Doctor Who and The Thick Of It star praised the Scots film director in an acceptance speech after receiving a Bafta Scotland Award for Outstanding Contribution to Film & Television.

I love Capaldi's affection for our country, speaking to the audience while holding his Bafta, Capaldi said the award was “for getting lucky, and for being lucky enough to be born in Scotland”.

He said: “Forty years ago I was just up here (in Glasgow) as an art student, living off pakora and lager for breakfast.

“Bill Forsyth scooped me up and put me in Local Hero.

“It was an act of kindness and confidence that baffled me and much of the industry to this day, but I wouldn’t be here without him and nor would a lot of others.”

Capaldi landed this breakthrough film role aged 24 playing Danny Oldsen, a naive young oil industry executive, in the film.

A number of actors, including Dee Hepburn, will be a part of a celebration of the films of Bill Forsyth at the Outwith Festival of music and arts which takes place in Dunfermline from September 3-8. It will also screen That Sinking Feeling and Local Hero at the city’s Carnegie Theatre.

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BFI London Film Festival, 2022 Allelujah Premiere Photographer: Stuart C Wilson

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Madelyn Cline attend the "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery" European Premiere and Closing Night Gala during the 66th BFI London Film Festival at The Royal Festival Hall on October 16, 2022.

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TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET

2022 || Bones And All Premiere, 66th BFI London Film Festival

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JANELLE MONÁE at the premiere for “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” at the BFI London Film Festival on October 16th 2022 wearing CHRISTIAN SIRIANO

I thought this was a beautiful look from Janelle. It's over-the-top and almost a spectacle, but Janelle pulls it off flawlessly. This look doesn't overwhelm her, and she keeps control of the outfit. I also loved the red color on her. My issue is that this movie is an ensemble movie. I think this felt a little too movie star when there's like 10 other people who also starred in the movie. Her look really stood out when she was posing with her other cast mates.

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Lily James attends the BFI London Film Festival Luminous Gala at The Londoner Hotel on September 29, 2022 in London, England. 

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Morfydd Clark BFI London Film Festival: Luminous Gala September 2022 ◼ Morfydd Daily

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Timothée Chalamet in Alexander McQueen at the BFI London Film Festival "Bones and All" Premiere (2022)

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Eddie at the BFI Luminous Gala, London, Uk, September 2022.

📸Cr: James Shaw/RETNA/Avalon

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Madelyn Cline (wearing Tom Ford) at the premiere of ''Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery'' during the 66th BFI London Film Festival on Sunday (16th October 2022).

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Florence Pugh during the 66th BFI London Film Festival at Soho House in London (October 7, 2022) & the British Independent Film Awards at Old Billingsgate in London (December 4, 2022)