ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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No reel surprises at the London Film Festival
Away from the awards razzmatazz The Tragedy of Macbeth, Belfast, The Hand of Dog, The French Dispatch and Benediction deliver beyond expectations, days MARIA DUARTE
(L to R) Jamie Dornan, Ciaran Hinds, Jude Hill and Judi Dench
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Death comes for Liberals, entitled murder, Vatican hit squads, and fraternising with the Blitz killer
New releases from Public Image Ltd, William Basinski, and John Luther Adams
GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
PANAH PANAHI’S debut Iranian family road trip movie Hit The Road won the top award at this year’s BFI London Film Festival which returned in full swing despite the ongoing pandemic.
It opened with London-born musician and film-maker Jeymes Samuel’s debut feature, bold and stylish Western The Harder They Fall, inspired by the real-life stories of African-American cowboys.
While Joel Coen’s first solo directorial debut The Tragedy of Macbeth starring his wife Frances McDormand and Denzel Washington in this fresh and haunting black and white adaptation of Shakespeare’s renowned work brought the LFF to a close.
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