Cinema
Banned by Tehran, Barred by London: UK’s Iranian Double Standard
London’s film festival crowned films about empire and exile as Britain refused a visa to an Iranian director Tehran bans, while backing a Persian film for the Oscars.
London Film Festival
Cinema
Danny Boyle and Ben Affleck Just Gave Broke Studios a Green Light for AI
Danny Boyle says he would use AI again after putting Margaret Thatcher's face on an actor in Ink. With Ben Affleck and Alex Gibney, the stars are leading studios into AI.
News
12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen to become BFI Fellow
The BFI is to bestow its highest honour, a Fellowship, on the acclaimed British artist and director, Steve McQueen.
News
Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs to close LFF 2015
Danny Boyle is to close the London Film Festival for the third time, with his eponymous biopic of the Apple founder, Steve Jobs.
Blog
Suffragette to open London Film Festival
The London Film Festival has announced its opening film – more than four months before the start of the event.
Review
Fury
Blog
International politics creeps into LFF Awards
At an unusually political set of awards at the 2014 London Film Festival, it’s almost as if the BFI is trying to solve the world’s conflict through film; its main honours have…
News
Brad Pitt war film Fury to close London Film Festival
Returning to the Second World War for the first time since Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, Brad Pitt will close the London Film Festival with Fury, in which he stars as a sergeant,…
News
Cumberbatch and Knightley to open London Film Festival with Turing biopic
The BFI has picked The Imitation Game, about the life of the wartime code-breaker Alan Turing, top open the 58th London Film Festival in October.
Cinema
Record LFF ticket sales but who’ll remember 2013?
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 broken, with the figure passing the 150,000 mark for…