All London articles
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Reviews‘7 Miles Out’ review: Carol Morley adapts her semi-autobiographical novel into a vibrant study of life in 70s and 80s Stockport
Lucy Halliday and Leila Entwistle star in writer/director Morley’s London Film Festival competition premiere
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News“Hollywood is over,” Ava DuVernay tells BFI London Film Festival audience
DuVernay discusses international audience for Black American stories.
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NewsMike Leigh is “very concerned” about lack of “creative freedom” for young filmmakers in UK
“There are plenty of people with money, but they are inhibited by relinquishing control over the material.”
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FeaturesCarol Morley talks about how she raised the private funding for ‘7 Miles Out’
‘7 Miles Out’ is Morley’s first feature made without public funding support.
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Reviews‘Klara And The Sun’ review: Jenna Ortega stars in Taika Waititi’s overstuffed adaptation of the Kazuo Ishiguro novel
Source: London Film Festival ‘Klara And The Sun’ Dir: Taika Waititi. New Zealand/US/UK. 2026. 116 mins Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 novel Klara And The Sun feels well-suited to our times: it describes a polluted, unequal future world through the eyes of Klara, an AI-powered android – an ‘Artificial ...
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News“Come and work with us,” CNC president Gaëtan Bruel urges UK producers
Bruel said more UK productions should access the CNC’s Aide aux Cinémas du Monde
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NewsAimee Lou Wood says she had to “quieten” her voice to temper “fragile male egos” on film sets
Plus, Johnny Flynn says filmmakers can “take bigger risks” in European cinema than in the UK.
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Reviews‘Act 3’ review: Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor muse on the nature of storytelling in rich, moving documentary
The filmmakers’ latest non-fiction work premieres in London Film Festival competition
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News‘Wicker’ screening fire alarm causes Southbank evacuation at BFI London Film Festival
BFI says audience member’s electronic device overheated and started smoking.
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NewsJavier Bardem discusses safety on sets and the need “to push away toxic personalities”
“We’re not going to destroy ourselves in front of the camera so people can have fun.”
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Reviews‘Frank And Percy’ review: Ian McKellen and Roger Allam lift good-natured, syrupy London-set romantic comedy
The film is the latest collaboration between McKellan, director Sean Mathias and writer Martin Sherman
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NewsDanny Boyle says he would use AI again despite ‘Ink’ criticism: “It’s a no-brainer”
“I wouldn’t replace actors with it unless I had a very specific use,” he told Screen.
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NewsJames Wilson on the “vituperative, aggressive” Israeli backlash to ‘NAZA’ and class privilege in UK film
Wilson was reflecting on his career as part of the BFI London Film Festival Industry Forum.
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News‘Paper Tiger’ director James Gray expresses optimism for WBD-Paramount deal, support for US federal credit
Adam Driver discussed his belief in the “dictatorship” of filmmaking.
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Reviews‘Wildwood’ review: Animation studio Laika break new ground with dazzling stop-motion adventure
The latest work from the ‘Coraline’ and ‘Kubo’ studio features the voices of Jacob Tremblay, Carey Mulligan and Peyton Elizabeth Lee
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Reviews‘Ray Gunn’ review: Sam Rockwell and Scarlett Johansson head starry voice cast for Brad Bird’s stylish but unwieldy animation
The Skydance Animation feature premieres in London before a limited theatrical release and Netflix bow in December
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Reviews‘14th’ review: Ava DuVernay’s rousing documentary is a damning exploration of the current attack on the rights of Black Americans
DuVernay’s follow-up to the Oscar-nominated ‘13th’ premieres in New York before streaming on Netflix from December
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Reviews‘In The Shadows’ review: Jasmine Jobson packs a punch as British-Somali boxer Ramla Ali in restrained biopic
Anthony Wonke’s feature will be released in the UK on October 30 following its London Film Festival premiere
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News‘La Bola Negra’ directors on Netflix theatrical deal and video-calling Anne Hathaway
”We wanted a [theatrical release] so badly. We made a movie for the screen.”
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News‘Elsinore’ star Andrew Scott talks positioning of gay stories, his own producing ambitions
“The shame does not lie with the gay people,” says Scott at LFF talk.