Gallery | We reveal our picks of the best films of 2016 and a new year’s resolution. From the shocking story of a young boy raised within the confines of four walls in Lenny Abrahamson’s survival drama Room to the rebellious spirit of five sisters from deep Anatolia in Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s powerful first feature… Continue reading The 11 best films of 2016 in pictures
Author: Georgia Korossi
Writer-curator & photographer Georgia Korossi is based in London and Athens. Her research writings on film and cultural studies have been published by Sight & Sound, LUX – Artists’ Moving Image and Little White Lies. She co-ordinated the BFI digital projects 39 Steps to Hitchcock and The Reel History of Britain and she is part of the BFI’s Digital team. During her postgraduate studies at Goldsmiths, she worked as film programmer, producer and artist with a number of projects including the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival and the Athens Biennale.
60th BFI London Film Festival roundup
Groundbreaking debuts and genre-bending gems that coloured the reflective quality of this year’s festival. No idea can be built without sacrifices. -Sieranevada (2016) It is time for our turn to introduce you to the films we admired and loved from the 60th BFI London Film Festival. With 245 films, it’s impossible to include every single best… Continue reading 60th BFI London Film Festival roundup
The realist cinema of Ken Loach
Film critic-curator Georgia Korossi celebrates two-time Palme d’Or winner Ken Loach’s 80th birthday with some entry points to his filmmaking output. In a recent Q&A at Curzon Soho following the screening of Louise Osmond’s documentary about his life and films, director Ken Loach explained his filmmaking as: “We try to say in the simplest way… Continue reading The realist cinema of Ken Loach
Patricio Guzmán on The Pearl Button
Have the strongest people always dominated everywhere? We look into Patricio Guzmán’s new film The Pearl Button, ahead of its UK release this week. “I’d love for these water people not to have disappeared.” Patricio Guzmán, The Pearl Button Chilean documentary filmmaker Patricio Guzmán was held in solitary confinement in Santiago’s National Stadium and… Continue reading Patricio Guzmán on The Pearl Button
11 international women in film
Gallery | To mark International Women’s Day 2016, we celebrate women in film from around the world. Here are 11 women to honour and admire this year. View our gallery, 25 international women in film.
The Artists Cinema 2016
Guerrilla-style distribution brings back experimental film in cinemas across UK. The Artists Cinema, a collaborative project by LUX and the Independent Cinema Office (ICO) returns this year with its unique form of distribution. A selection of five new commissions will be presented with mainstream feature films in cinemas, guerilla-style. The films will be paired up… Continue reading The Artists Cinema 2016
The best of LSFF 2016
Starting the new year with new visions, the 13th London Short Film Festival rounded up last Sunday with the announcement of its award winners. “Life is great. Without it you’d be dead” Carrying on from last year’s ethos –“we’re not here to entertain you, we’re here to make you feel uncomfortable” – and growing from the Halloween… Continue reading The best of LSFF 2016
Kim Longinotto on Dreamcatcher
The master director of films on women’s rights talks to us about her picture based on Brenda Myers-Powell and the girls on the street corners of Chicago. Documentarian Kim Longinotto returns this year with a film about prostitution. Perhaps, an obvious and depressing subject about sex victims wouldn’t appeal to many people at first.… Continue reading Kim Longinotto on Dreamcatcher
Films about artists
To celebrate the general release of director Mike Leigh's film Mr. Turner, we've compiled a list of films, biopics of artists from the 1930s to the present day. The last years in the life of English Romantic landscape painter, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) is the subject of director Mike Leigh’s latest film starring Timothy Spall,… Continue reading Films about artists
58th BFI London Film Festival roundup
Tell the world about Philosophy! 15 films from around the world that inspired our imagination during the festival in London this year. The present is a strange beast. - Jean-Luc Godard Goodbye to Language (Adieu au langage, 2014) Αnother festival of imaginative films closed its curtains last week. Our focus this month was the BFI London Film… Continue reading 58th BFI London Film Festival roundup
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