2016 London Film Festival (LFF), Oct 5-16
SEP 1: Here are some films of note scheduled for the London Film Festival, Oct 5-16, 2016 (60th edition). I usually use Time Out-London's preview, but their format recently underwent a makeover, and they may not have any preview of film showings. Meanwhile, I'll just use other internet sources for any listings here. The LFF is quite extensive. In 2016 193 fictional and 52 documentaries are scheduled. So my review will be somewhat short, but will highlight the best of what's being shown. BTW, there are 12 films entered in The Official Competition (Best Picture) category. They are (Director, TITLE): Martin Koolhoven, BRIMSTONE; Kelly Reichardt, CERTAIN WOMEN; Mohamed Diab, CLASH; Paul Verhoeven, ELLE; Francois Ozon, FRANZ; Ivan Sen, GOLDSTONE; Miijke de Jong, LAYLA M.; Barry Jenkins, MOONLIGHT; Pablo Larrine, NERUDA; Terence Davies, A QUIET PASSION; Benedict Andrews, UNA; Makoto Shinkai, YOUR NAME. There are also competitions for First Film, Documentary, and Short Film. To start off the list here are 9 pics that excited Metro.co.uk on Sep 1...... SEP 2: I had given up hope about Time Out-London, but lo and behold, TO published their list of 30 films you gotta see on Sep 2. That list includes #'s 1, 5, 6 & 7 from Metro and 26 others. (Still no mention of The Handmaiden, a Korean flik, though). So #'s 10-35 are from TO-London......Sep 3. I found a few lists of "gotta see" movies at the LFF. Mostly those lists rename fliks already mentioned, but each one is just a little bit different and add something to this list. At some point I'll stop adding fliks to this list, otherwise it will just be a relisting of the entire roster of films at the LFF. The Handmaiden (the Korean pic) finally gets a mention from Methods Unsound. CultureTrip.com added #36, and renamed 9 others, #'s 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 13, 18, 20, & 34. MethodsUnsound.com added 7, #'s 37-43, and renamed 9, #'s 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 18, 20, 21, & 33......Sep 11. The Evening Standard named 20 movies to their list of "must sees." They repeated 15 movies: #'s 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, & 33. They had 5 additions: #'s 44-48......Oct 27. One of the Best Pic nominees gets a lot of love, MOONLIGHT. I've added it at #49. Nary a recommendation from the sources used here. BTW, Certain Women was The Official Competition (Best Pic) winner.
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