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Festivals

20 Hidden Gems at the 2024 BFI London Film Festival

by Little White Lies

Our hand-picked haul of must-see titles from out­side the main gala and com­pe­ti­tion strands.
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Festivals

The Creative Nonfiction Film Weekend highlights the infinite possibilities of documentary

by Marina Ashioti

Fea­tur­ing films by Joan­na Arnow and Miryam Charles, the inau­gur­al Cre­ative Non­fic­tion Film Week­end at Lon­don’s Gen­e­sis Cin­e­ma cel­e­brates all the strange and cre­ative forms that doc­u­men­tary films can take.
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Festivals

SXSW is making its way to London

by Little White Lies

The Austin peren­ni­al is mak­ing its way across the Atlantic and for a brand new cul­tur­al showcase.
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A grindhouse cinema is born in South London

by Oisín McGilloway

Born first as a pro­gramme at The Cin­e­ma Muse­um, The Nick­el is now mov­ing into a per­ma­nent space, offer­ing deep cuts and obscu­ri­ties to a cine-curi­ous audience.
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The sublime short films of Derek Jarman, seen for the first time in decades

by Grace Dodd

Thanks to the efforts of the LUMA Foun­da­tion and Jar­man’s friend James Mack­ay, a series of shorts pro­duced by the pio­neer­ing film­mak­er have been restored and screened for the first time in London.
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Interviews

Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe Tavares: ‘Gentrification is hard to dramatise’

by Rógan Graham

Old pals and cre­ative col­lab­o­ra­tors Daniel Kalu­uya and Kib­we Tavares team up to present their vision of a near future where Lon­don’s last social hous­ing estate stands up against the oppres­sive régime.
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Review

The Kitchen review – vindicating and explosive

by Rógan Graham

Daniel Kalu­uya and Kib­we Tavares’ fea­ture debut is a kinet­ic, pre­scient thriller about gen­tri­fi­ca­tion and iso­la­tion in a near-future ver­sion of London.

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Review

Scala!!! review – an exhaustive and lively document of a cult scene

by David Jenkins

An affec­tion­ate new doc­u­men­tary cel­e­brates one of Lon­don’s most beloved cin­e­ma insti­tu­tions and the patrons who made it mythological.

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Festivals

Chasing Chasing Amy – first-look review

by Soma Ghosh

Sav Rodgers weaves per­son­al and pop cul­ture his­to­ry togeth­er as he unpacks the lega­cy of Kevin Smith’s 1997 roman­tic comedy.
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Festivals

Baltimore – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Imo­gen Poots shines in this angu­lar, frag­ment­ed por­trait of Eng­lish rose-turned-fire­brand activist Rose Dug­dale from Irish film­mak­ers Joe Lawlor and Chris­tine Molloy.