London Film Festival 2012 Diary: Week 3

As the 2012 BFI London Film Festival enters its final stretch, we look back over a week of quality cinema. To book tickets for the final week of the festival, head over to the BFI website here. FILM3SIXTY’S RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE WEEK Beyond The Hills Director Cristian Mungiu’s first solo-directorial effort since the emphatically successful 4 Months, 3 Weeks [...]

5 Minutes With: Clare Stewart, Director of The LFF

In her first year at the helm of the 56th BFI London Film Festival, Clare Stewart shares her vision with Film3Sixty magazine. What were your goals coming into the LFF? Claire Stewart: I knew I was coming into a festival that had gone from strength to strength under Sandra Hebron’s direction [Hebron presided over the [...]

London Film Festival 2012 Diary: Week 2

With the 56th annual BFI London Film Festival set to kick off this Wednesday with the Opening Gala screening of Frankenweenie (win tickets here!), below you can read our second report (the first is here) from the festival’s press schedule. What films do we recommend? Who’s in town? What’s the festival buzz? You’ll be able to [...]

Frankenweenie To Open BFI London Film Festival

Last week it was announced that Tim Burton’s forthcoming animation Frankenweenie will be opening the 2012 London Film Festival, the 56th festival of its kind. LFF 2012 will kick off on 10 October with a screening of Burton’s latest, and will run until 21 October. The opening screening of Frankenweenie will be simultaneously broadcast live to 30 [...]

Rust and Bone – 2 Nov 2012

Starring Marion Cotillard as a killer-whale trainer who tragically loses the use of her legs in a horrific accident, Rust and Bone is an uncompromising and intensely emotional film. A love story featuring a disfigured aquarium worker, a bare-knuckle boxer, Orca whales and Katy Perry’s synthetic power ballad ‘Fireworks’ sounds so horribly contrived and loaded [...]