Tag: BFI London Film Festival

Knives Out (Rian Johnson, 2019), Lionsgate, USA, DCP, colour, sound, 130 Minutes, Lieutenant Elliott (Lakeith Stanfield), Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig)K
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Rhys Handley

KNIVES OUT

Rian Johnson takes aim at modern America in a playful, ingenious murder mystery
The Report (Scott Z. Burns, 2019), Amazon Studios, USA, DCP, colour, sound, 119 minutes, Daniel Jones (Adam Driver)T
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Rhys Handley

THE REPORT

The truth will out as Adam Driver takes on the CIA in real-life post-9/11 thriller
Ghost Town Anthology / Répertoire des Villes Disparues (Denis Côté , 2019), Canada, 16mm, colour, sound, 97 minutes, Jimmy Dubé (Robert Naylor)G
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Rhys Handley

GHOST TOWN ANTHOLOGY

Tragedy dredges up the spectres of the past in Denis Côté’s chilling community parable
Monos (Alejandro Landes, 2019), Picturehouse, Colombia / Argentina / Netherlands / Germany / Sweden / Uruguay, DCP, colour, sound 102 minutesM
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Savina Petkova

MONOS

A stark portrayal of excessive violence and child militance that renders all the comforts of civilisation unimportant
Waiting for the Barbarians (Ciro Guerra, 2019), Italy, colour, sound, 112 minutes, Colonel Joll (Johnny Depp), The Magistrate (Mark Rylance)W
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Savina Petkova

WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS

Questions of colonialism frame Ciro Guerra’s English-language debut
The Peanut Butter Falcon (Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz, 2019), Signature Entertainment, USA, DCP, colour, sound, 97 Minutes, Tyler (Shia LaBeouf)T
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Savina Petkova

THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON

A renegade modern-day Huckleberry Finn tale starring Shia LeBeouf and newcomer Zack Gottsagen
Crystal Swan (Darya Zhuk, 2018), K Films Amerique, Belarus, 93 minutes, Velya (Alina Nasibullina)C
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Savina Petkova

CRYSTAL SWAN

Belarusian comedy touches upon the trauma of post-socialist rule