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Category: London Film Festival

watched at the London Film Festival

A Traveler’s Needs (2024)

October 10, 2024October 10, 2024 Dave McAllister2 Comments
Isabelle Huppert in A Traveler's Needs

She’s seeking experiences, living in a secular world, even though she’s French.

Posted in cinema, comedy, London Film FestivalTagged french-cinema, Hong Sangsoo, Isabelle Huppert, Kwon Haehyo, Lee Hyeyoung, review, reviews

May December (2023)

November 17, 2023November 17, 2023 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment
Natalie Portman's Elizabeth assumes even the body language and dress of Gracie (Julianne Moore) in May December

"This is just what grown-ups do”

Posted in cinema, drama, London Film FestivalTagged Charles Melton, Christopher Blauvelt, Cory Michael Smith, Julianne Moore, Michel Legrand, Natalie Portman, Todd Haynes

Evil Does Not Exist (2023)

October 12, 2023October 13, 2023 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment

"Water flows downhill"

Posted in cinema, drama, London Film FestivalTagged Ayaka Shibutani, Eiko Ishibashi, Hitoshi Omika, Ryo Nishikawa, Ryuji Kosaka, Ryusuke Hamaguchi

The Souvenir Part II (2021)

February 2, 2022September 12, 2022 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment

"She can always make another one"

Posted in cinema, drama, London Film FestivalTagged Ariane Labed, Charlie Heaton, Harris Dickinson, Honor Swinton Byrne, James Spencer Ashworth, Jaygann Ayeh, Joanna Hogg, Richard Ayoade, Tilda Swinton

DASHCAM (2021)

October 14, 2021June 1, 2022 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment

"Man, you can suck my quim"

Posted in cinema, horror, London Film FestivalTagged Amar Chadha-Patel, Angela Enahoro, Annie Hardy, Gemma Hurley, Jed Shepherd, Rob Savage, Seylan Baxter

Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2021)

October 7, 2021September 19, 2022 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment

"Forget what you know"

Posted in cinema, drama, London Film FestivalTagged Ana Lily Amirpour, Craig Robinson, Ed Skrein, Evan Whitten, Gralen Bryant Banks, Jeon Jong-seo, Kate Hudson

Bergman Island

October 7, 2021October 8, 2021 Dave McAllister1 Comment

“The large bedroom was where he filmed Scenes from a Marriage, the film that caused a million divorces”

Posted in cinema, drama, London Film FestivalTagged Anders Danielsen Lie, Ingmar Bergman, Mia Hansen-Løve, Mia Wasikowska, Tim Roth, Vicky Krieps

Possessor (2020)

October 16, 2020February 6, 2021 Dave McAllister3 Comments

"The longer she stays in, the greater the risk to her brain"

Posted in horror, London Film Festival, streamingTagged Andrea Riseborough, Brandon Cronenberg, Christopher Abbott, Dan Martin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rossif Sutherland

The Human Voice (2020)

October 15, 2020October 21, 2020 Dave McAllister2 Comments

"It made me imagine my hand was wielding a knife and I was sticking it in you"

Posted in cinema, drama, London Film Festival, streamingTagged Jean Cocteau, Pedro Almodóvar, Tilda Swinton

David Byrne’s American Utopia (2020)

October 14, 2020October 15, 2020 Dave McAllisterLeave a comment

"We're work in progress. We're not fixed. Our brains change"

Posted in cinema, London Film Festival, music, streamingTagged David Byrne, Spike Lee

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