MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
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Focus on women is a winner
Maria Duarte believes the 62nd edition of the festival has, without being memorable, provided some outstanding offerings
Sudabeh Mortezai’s Joy won the Best Film award
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
The missing sister, the vengeful WAG, cruise ship claustrophobia, and reanimated Avengers
Three great releases of lost concerts by Duke Ellington Orchestra, John Taylor & Stan Sulzman, and Joe Henderson
To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
THIS year’s BFI London Film Festival celebrated female film-makers, with half the films in the official competition being directed or co-directed by women and Sudabeh Mortezai’s hugely affecting drama Joy (right) won the Best Film award.
For the first time the LFF staged a special presentation outside London with Mike Leigh’s stirring Peterloo screened in Manchester where the 1819 massacre took place.
Though apt, let’s hope this is a one-off because, if it isn’t, they will need to rethink the name of the festival and possibly drop London.
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