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BFI produced an excellent LFF this year, even with the lockdown measures, including the likes of Steve McQueen and Spike Lee. Here's a list of our favourites from the selection
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Boasting big names like Steve McQueen, Spike Lee, David Byrne and Frances McDormand, this looks to be another cracking LFF – even with the Covid-19 restrictions
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Supernova follows Sam (Colin Firth) and Tusker (Stanley Tucci), a middle-aged gay couple. They embark on a campervan journey across the Lake District after a dementia diagnosis
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Josephine Decker's 'anti-biopic' creates fictions to root out the truth of who the Haunting of Hill House author Shirley Jackson really was. Elisabeth Moss stars
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In this family horror debut from Natalie Erika James, Kay (Emily Mortimer) and her daughter Sam (Bella Heathcote) try to find their missing matriarch Edna (Robyn Nevin)
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The third film from Irish director Phyllida Lloyd (Mamma Mia!), Herself examines the best and worst in humanity as abused, working-class mum Sandra (Clare Dunne) builds herself a house
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Eliza Scanlen, Ben Mendehlson, Essie Davis: the biggest names from Australia play a family in crisis in the eccentric film debut from Shannon Murphy (Killing Eve)
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In Bad Education, Hugh Jackman plays Frank Tassone, a real superintendent who caused outrage when he embezzled money from his school and kept it for himself
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Streaming next week, Star Wars stalwart Rian Johnson gives the murder mystery genre a fresh spin with an all-star cast: Daniel Craig, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Chris Evans
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Armando Iannucci (The Death of Stalin) enlists an all-star cast to bring to life a fresh retelling of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield
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In his follow up to Thor: Ragnarok, Taika Waititi brings his trademark wit to Nazi Germany: playing a little boy's imaginary friend – Adolf Hitler
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Martin Scorsese is back with a new title, and a whole host of stars. The Irishman gives Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino the roles of a lifetime
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In this new biopic of American actor Jean Seberg (Kristen Stewart), director Benedict Andrews examines her tumultuous involvement with an invasive FBI operation
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The lineup for this year's London Film Festival is finally here: Scorsese, Chalamet, Cannes gems and Sundance surprises are all coming to the big smoke soon
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Natalie Portman dazzles as an abrasive chameleonic popstar in Vox Lux, Brady Corbet's film of stardom and sorrow
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Joaquin Phoenix, John C Reilly, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Riz Ahmed star in The Sisters Brothers, the new Western from French director Jacques Audiard
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Photographer Richard Billingham revisits his childhood with a powerful stillness and love laced with dysfunction in his debut feature film Ray & Liz
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In Colette, Keira Knightley goes against the norms of 19th century society – sleeping with men, women, and writing the most popular French novels of the time
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The stars of Stan & Ollie, Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly, are absorbing in the new Laurel and Hardy biopic following the comedy duo's 1953 tour
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The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos' new film, lets Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz run wild in a lustful story of 18th century royalty
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Kristen Stewart and Chloë Sevigny play forbidden lovers in Lizzie: a biographical thriller about the Borden murders and the man who made it happen
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A Ghost Story director David Lowery teams up with Robert Redford for his final role in The Old Man and the Gun, the true story of gentleman criminal Forrest Tucker
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Dakota Johnson dances with witches in Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria, a disturbing new 'homage' to Dario Argento's 1977 cult classic
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In cinemas for one week before it hits Netflix, the Coen Brothers head West in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, a fun journey of cartoons and chaos
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British social-realist filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to historical drama, but on a far grander scale. Starring Maxine Peake, Peterloo tackles the 1819 Peterloo Massacre in Manchester
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With Been So Long, Netflix heads to Camden and lets Michaela Coel shine as a single mother who finds romance in a neon soaked musical
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London Film Festival is in full swing. For the busiest week in the film calendar this year, here are the best films to catch and tickets to book right now
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Chris Pine and director David Mackenzie return together in a new medieval Netflix film, in which Scotland is (once again) trying to free itself from the English
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Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes is back with Sunset, a mysterious tale of a woman in a Budapest hat shop during the lead up to World War I
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Ben Wheatley's excellent new comedy Happy New Year, Colin Burstead is a dizzy exploration of family and its many burdens
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Closing the BFI London Film Festival in a couple of weeks, the new trailer for Stan & Ollie shows Laurel & Hardy at their best.
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Lucile Hadžihalilović (Innocence) returns with Evolution, a chilling film about a remote island, a mysterious medical treatment and a curious boy
