2017 London Film Festival (LFF), Oct 4-15
Sept 3-at it again. More later as sites start to do their recs..Sept 5-no one seems to be doing much so far, except Time Out London, which has done their list of 30 recs that I'll use as a start. Meanwhile, I took a look at the official BFI (British Film Institute) site. The Festival has 242 film selections. Twelve of these are entered for The Official Competition (Best Film, of the twelve). They are (Name, director): 120 BPS (Beats Per Minute), Robin Campillo; Angels Wear White, Vivian Qu; Beyond the Clouds, Majid Majidi; The Breadwinner, Nora Twomey; Good Manners, Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutra; The Guardians, Xavier Beavois; Lean on Pete, Andrew Haigh; Loveless, Andrey Zvyagintsev; The Lovers, Azazel Jacobs; Sweet Country, Warwick Thornton, Thoroughbred, Cory Finley; Wajib, Annemarie Jacir...Sept 6. The list of 30 from Time Out London seems to be selected/recommended based on Total Entries then on genre with the amount of selections limited. Thus, some that would qualify for another list from total (242) films are somewhat limited by Time Out's inclusion of genre selections. That's all part speculation on my part and may be hogwash. Meanwhile, this morning I found 21 recs from Culture Trip and they seem unaffected by genre. Culture Trip added 11 movies (31-41) and repeated 10 films (1,2,3,4,7,9,10,11,20,22) already on this list...Sep 24. I've found a few other recommendations from published sources. Among them are The Evening Standard. Most of the selections from The Standard are repeats of movies already listed, but there are five additions and possibly a sixth if I can determine which "Casting" addition is the one from multiples on multiples of selections. Repeats: 1,2,3,4,5,6,9,11,12,15,21,22,23,32. Additions: 42-46 and "Casting". In addition, the six Vice (that's the name of the online site) recs were all repeats: 4,16,20,32,40,42. And from TopShop 10 recs: 7 repeats: 1,5,11,17,32,38,44. 3 adds: 47-49... Dec 2, 2017: The Official Competition (Best Film Award of the 12 submitted for competition) went to Loveless a France/Russian submission. For the second year in a row, this film wasn't recommended by any the "authorities" used to list movies here. I've added Loveless to this list at #50.
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