Week 5

The 57th BFI London Film Festival:

The BFI Film Festival will run from October 9th to the 20th of October. Paul Greegrass a British director, producer and writer opened the London Film Festival this year with 'Captain Phillips', staring Tom Hanks.'Captain Phillips' is the true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama; the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.'Captain Phillips' debuted on September 27th at the New York Film Festival.  Weirdly enough the festival will close with another Tom Hanks film called 'Saving Mr Banks'. 

Here is a video of Paul Greengrass talking about the honour of having his film open the festival (and also a reel of many other clips with other directors starring at the festival) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcnqLbvBPOk&list=PL_EsfcA2-X35VP8i_CJxdLAPcKOulcua9


Festival venues:

BFI Southbank  BFI IMAX  Ciné Lumière  Cineworld Haymarket  Curzon Chelsea  Curzon Mayfair  Everyman Screen on the Green  Hackney Picturehouse  ICA  Odeon Leicester Square  Odeon West End  Renoir Cinema  Rich Mix  Ritzy Picturehouse  Vue West End I would love to go to the festival but i live no where near it and don't have the cash to go at the weekend or the time. I hopefully will be going in 2016/17 as my dad wants to go and then i hopefully will be free of collage :). I know its ages away, well its something to look forward to i guess.   ~ There are too many films to list them all and no one would bother reading them anyway so I am just going to give you the categories  with a brief explanation I found from the official BFI LFF website: - Galas (Join us on the red carpet for our Gala screenings) - Official Competition (The Best Film Award recognises inspiring, inventive and distinctive film making) - First Feature Competition (The Sutherland Award recognises the most original and imaginative directorial debut) - Documentary Competition (The Gierson Award recognises films with interrogatory, originality, and social or cultural significance) - Love (Sweet, passionate, tough - love is a complex and many splendored thing) - Debate (Riveting films that amplify, scrutinise, argue and surprise) - Dare (In-your-face, up-front and arresting: films that takes you out of your comfort zone. - Laugh (From laugh-out-loud through romantic comedy to dry and understated - humour in all its forms) - thrill (Nerve-shredders that'll get your adrenalin pumping and keep you on the edge of your seat) - Cult (From the mind-altering and unclassifiable to fantasy, sci-fi and horror) - Journey (Whether its the journey or the destination, films to transport you and shift you perspective) - Sonic (Music-inspired films and event that will leaving you dancing in the aisles) - Family (Films for all ages) - Treasures (Revived and restored from the worlds archive) - Experimenta (Experimental cinema and artist' film and video) Personally I think Cult, Galas and Journey sound the most interesting and they would be the categories would most likely consider. In the Gala category there are three films I would like to defiantly watch they are, 'Don Jon', ' Gravity' and '12 Years A Slave'. In the cult category there are again three i really want to watch they are,'Only Lovers Left Alive', 'The Zero Theorem' and 'Freaks 'n' Geeks'. In the journey category there are five films that I am really interested in they are, 'Four Ways To Die In My Hometown', 'My Class', 'My Daughter Haewon', 'So Much Water' and 'The Rocket' What is the BFI? ~ The BFI was founded in 1933, they are a charity governed by a Royal Charter. They combine cultural, creative and industrial roles, bringing together the BFI National Archive and BFI Reuben Library  film distribution  exhibition and education at BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX  publishing and festivals. They award Lottery funding to film production, distribution, education, audience development and market intelligence and research. Oh also if you didn't know it stands for 'British Film Institute'. :)