London Lgbt film festival reveals full programme; Sundance/Berlin winner 52 Tuesdays booked as closing film; VoD plans.Scroll down for programme highlights
The long-running London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (Llgff) is to be renamed BFI Flare: London Lgbt Film Festival in a bid to “reflect the increasing diversity of the programme”.
The British Film Institute (BFI) will also launch a BFI Flare collection on its VoD platform, BFI Player, as well as a monthly screening programme at its BFI Southbank base in London.
The announcements were made last night (Feb 19) at the launch of the 28th edition of the festival, where the full programme was also unveiled. This year’s festival runs March 20-30.
Speaking to ScreenDaily about the name change, BFI deputy head of festivals Tricia Tuttle said: “The festival had outgrown the name. Following an audience consultation last year, 70% came back saying it was time for a change.
“Options considered...
The long-running London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (Llgff) is to be renamed BFI Flare: London Lgbt Film Festival in a bid to “reflect the increasing diversity of the programme”.
The British Film Institute (BFI) will also launch a BFI Flare collection on its VoD platform, BFI Player, as well as a monthly screening programme at its BFI Southbank base in London.
The announcements were made last night (Feb 19) at the launch of the 28th edition of the festival, where the full programme was also unveiled. This year’s festival runs March 20-30.
Speaking to ScreenDaily about the name change, BFI deputy head of festivals Tricia Tuttle said: “The festival had outgrown the name. Following an audience consultation last year, 70% came back saying it was time for a change.
“Options considered...
- 2/20/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Red State; Bluebeard; 30 Minutes or Less; The Art of Getting By; The British Guide to Showing Off
There are few spectacles more unedifying than that of a director who knows they have made a lousy film blaming critics for their failure. When Kevin Smith's Cop Out was justifiably trashed by critics, the director had the gall to liken the reviews for his lame, lazy Bruce Willis vehicle to the playground bullying of a "retarded kid'" (his words, folks). Yet for proof that Smith knew that he had sold out, one need look no further than Red State (2011, Entertainment One, 18), a low-budget throwback to the indie-spirited glory days of Clerks that marks a sparky – if haphazard – return to form. Believe me, no one who could make a film as ballsy as Red State could be under any illusions about the dreadful balderdash of Cop Out.
Made for a reported $4m...
There are few spectacles more unedifying than that of a director who knows they have made a lousy film blaming critics for their failure. When Kevin Smith's Cop Out was justifiably trashed by critics, the director had the gall to liken the reviews for his lame, lazy Bruce Willis vehicle to the playground bullying of a "retarded kid'" (his words, folks). Yet for proof that Smith knew that he had sold out, one need look no further than Red State (2011, Entertainment One, 18), a low-budget throwback to the indie-spirited glory days of Clerks that marks a sparky – if haphazard – return to form. Believe me, no one who could make a film as ballsy as Red State could be under any illusions about the dreadful balderdash of Cop Out.
Made for a reported $4m...
- 1/23/2012
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
This documentary about the Alternative Miss World competition is a disarming love letter to its founder Andrew Logan
The Alternative Miss World contest has been staged every year since 1972, offering a salute to the oddball and the outrageous. Jes Benstock's jubilant, disarming documentary rustles up scrapbook biography of its founder, the renegade (yet faintly patrician) British artist Andrew Logan, who won his first fancy dress prize on coronation day in 1953 and went on to forge a career by wedding the flamboyance of the London gay scene to the rituals of English folk heritage. Benstock's film is affectionate, indulgent and clearly in love with its subject, and the camera leads us through the 2009 contest, where the victor takes the stage – smeared in glitter, swaddled in ermine and naked from the waist down – to be crowned by a grinning Ruby Wax.
Rating: 3/5
DocumentaryXan Brooks
guardian.co.uk © 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies.
The Alternative Miss World contest has been staged every year since 1972, offering a salute to the oddball and the outrageous. Jes Benstock's jubilant, disarming documentary rustles up scrapbook biography of its founder, the renegade (yet faintly patrician) British artist Andrew Logan, who won his first fancy dress prize on coronation day in 1953 and went on to forge a career by wedding the flamboyance of the London gay scene to the rituals of English folk heritage. Benstock's film is affectionate, indulgent and clearly in love with its subject, and the camera leads us through the 2009 contest, where the victor takes the stage – smeared in glitter, swaddled in ermine and naked from the waist down – to be crowned by a grinning Ruby Wax.
Rating: 3/5
DocumentaryXan Brooks
guardian.co.uk © 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies.
- 11/11/2011
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
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