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\n60th BFI London Film Festival<\/B>

\n5 \u2013 16 October 2016

\nLondon, UK

\nLFF website<\/A>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Running from 5 to 16 October with screenings spread across central London, a brand new temporary venue at Embankment and a number of participating local cinemas, the 60th edition of the BFI London Film Festival opens lightly with Amma Assante\u2019s romantic drama A United Kingdom<\/i><\/b> and closes with a bang with Ben Wheatley\u2019s action comedy thriller Free Fire<\/i><\/b>, starring Cillian Murphy, Brie Larson, Michael Smiley and Armie Hammer in a twisted story about an arms deal going horribly wrong. In between those two opposing sides of the film spectrum, this year\u2019s line-up is packed with a wealth of thrills, chills and oddities. <\/p>\n

Our top picks this year include Park Chan-wook\u2019s intriguing and masterfully shot new film The Handmaiden<\/i>, social-SF drama The Untamed<\/i> by Mexican filmmaker Amat Escalante, Ulrich Seidl\u2019s latest documentary Safari<\/i>, along with the French cannibal coming-of-age tale Raw and absurdist Russian fable Zoology, which screened at L\u2019Etrange Festival and TIFF last month.<\/p>\n

Other titles seen on the festival circuit include Boo Junfeng\u2019s tense prison thriller Apprentice<\/i>, Olivier Assayas\u2019s underwhelming ghost drama Personal Shopper<\/I>, Kiyoshi Kurosawa\u2019s latest offering Creepy<\/i>, Na Hong-jin\u2019s supernatural epic The Wailing<\/i>, Pablo Larrain\u2019s festival hit Neruda<\/i>, and Nicole Krebitz\u2019s new film Wild<\/i>, about a young woman who finds herself drawn to a wolf and gradually breaks free from the conformist society that surrounds her. <\/p>\n

We especially look forward to the packed \u2018Cult\u2019 strand, which this year includes a trip down memory lane with Peter Braatz\u2019s Blue Velvet Revisited<\/i> along with a rare screening of Don Coscarelli\u2019s Phantasm: Remastered<\/i>, next to a number of promising debuts by young filmmakers such as Lorca Finnegan\u2019s Without Name<\/i> and Liam Gavin\u2019s first feature A Dark Song<\/I>. There are also new and exciting works by more established filmmakers, including Billy O\u2019Brien\u2019s chilling and darkly humorous study of adolescent alienation I am Not a Serial Killer<\/i>, and Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski\u2019s brand new slice of retro terror, \u2018The Void\u2019.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s archive screenings, which are always worth a look, include Cy Endfield\u2019s superb low budget thriller Hell Drivers<\/i> (1957) and the BFI National Archive\u2019s latest silent film restoration The Informer<\/i> (1929), based on Liam O\u2019Flaherty\u2019s novel about betrayal amidst the revolutionary environment of the newly independent Ireland in 1922. <\/p>\n

Pamela Jahn<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

For more information about the programme and how to book tickets visit the LFF website<\/A>. <\/div>\n
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