56th BFI London Film Festival

While Warsaw lives its Warsaw Film Festival, the eyes of the rest of the world might just be turned some other way, and possibly they are on London and its 56th edition of the famous Film Festival. It is almost finished (10-21.10.2012) and has witnessed some great movies, as usual. The programme is simply huge, the films are divided into several categories, including competitions: Official, First Feature and Documentary, and besides that there are also kind-of genre categorisations into: LOVE ("Amour" dir. Michael Haneke, "Broken" dir. Rufus Norris, "Gimme the Loot" dir. Adam Leon, "Keep the Lights On" dir. Ira Sachs, "Lawrence Anyways" dir. Xavier Dolan, or "Teddy Bear" dir. Mads Matthiesen), DARE ("The Reluctant Fundamentalist" dir. Mira Nair, "The Dead Man Being Happy" dir. Javier Rebollo, "Just the Wind" dir. Bence Fliegauf, "Paradise: Love" dir. Ulrich Seidl or "Post Tenebras Lux" dir. Carlos Reygadas), LAUGH ("Le Grand Soir" dir. Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, "Grassroots" dir. Stephen Gyllenhaal) or THRILL ("Caesar Must Die"dir. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, "Easy Money" dir. Daniel Espinosa, or "Everybody Has a Plan" dir. Ana Piterbarg). The official competition includes "After Lucia" dir. Michel Franco, "End of Watch" dir. David Ayer, "Everyday" dir. Michael Winterbottom, "Fill the Void" dir. Rama Burshtein, "Midnight's Children" dir. Deepa Mehta, "Rust and Bone" dir. Jacques Audiard, "Seven Psychopats" dir. Martin McDonagh. Not to mention special gala screenings of Tim Burton's "Frankenweenie," Mike Newell's "Great Expectations" with Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter, Roger Michell's "Hyde Park on Hudson" with Bill Murray, Thomas Vinterberg's "The Hunt" with Mads Mikkelsen, Cristian Mungiu's "Beyond the Hills" and Ben Affleck's "Argo." Wish I was there...
Full programme that is envied all over the world here.