12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen to become BFI Fellow 25 August 2016Jason Korsner The BFI is to bestow its highest honour, a Fellowship, on the acclaimed British artist and director, Steve McQueen. McQueen rose to prominence [...]
Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs to close LFF 2015 7 August 2015Jason Korsner Danny Boyle is to close the London Film Festival for the third time, with his eponymous biopic of the Apple founder, Steve Jobs. [...]
Suffragette to open London Film Festival 3 June 20153 June 2015Jason Korsner The London Film Festival has announced its opening film – more than four months before the start of the event. Suffragette – about [...]
International politics creeps into LFF Awards 19 October 201419 October 2014Jason Korsner At an unusually political set of awards at the 2014 London Film Festival, it’s almost as if the BFI is trying to solve [...]
Brad Pitt war film Fury to close London Film Festival 15 August 201415 August 2014Jason Korsner Returning to the Second World War for the first time since Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, Brad Pitt will close the London Film Festival [...]
Cumberbatch and Knightley to open London Film Festival with Turing biopic 22 July 201422 July 2014Jason Korsner The BFI has picked The Imitation Game, about the life of the wartime code-breaker Alan Turing, top open the 58th London Film Festival [...]
Record LFF ticket sales but who’ll remember 2013? 24 October 201324 October 2013Jason Korsner The BFI has hailed the success of Clare Stewart’s second London Film Festival at the helm, with last year’s record audience attendance being [...]
Master and pupil honoured by LFF on the same night 20 October 201320 October 2013Jason Korsner A visiting tutor at the National Film and Television School in Buckinghamshire has won the top prize at the London Film Festival Awards [...]
BFI Fellowship for Sir Christopher Lee 9 October 20139 October 2013Jason Korsner The BFI has announced that the veteran actor Sir Christopher Lee will be awarded a Fellowship of the British Film Institute at the [...]
LFF brings pick of the festivals to London 5 September 20135 September 2013Jason Korsner Coming late in the year, the London Film Festival is continuing its modest streak of bringing some of the best films of the [...]