The London Movie Pageant has added a number of titles to this yr’s lineup together with Charlie McDowell’s The Summer season E book, which is able to display screen as a world premiere. Scroll down for the total checklist.
The Summer season E book is an adaptation of Moomins creator Tove Jansson’s basic novel and stars Glenn Shut and Anders Danielsen Lie. Additionally becoming a member of right now is Joshua Oppenheimer’s narrative characteristic debut The Finish. Set in a post-apocalyptic world the place a household and their companions reside in concord till the arrival of a stranger cracks their strictly organized world broad open, starring Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Moses Ingram, and Michael Shannon. The movie travels to London after debuting in Telluride.
Different titles embrace Justin Kurzel’s first non-fiction movie, Ellis Park, and Fleur Fortuné’s characteristic debut The Evaluation, a sci-fi chamber piece that includes Elizabeth Olsen, Himesh Patel, and Alicia Vikander.
This yr’s London Movie Pageant runs from October 9-20. The competition opens with Steve McQueen’s newest characteristic Blitz. The pic is an exploration of London throughout World Struggle 2 and can display screen as a world premiere.
Directed, produced, and written by McQueen, the movie follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World Struggle II London whose mom Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to security within the English countryside. The Synopsis reads: George, defiant and decided to return residence to Rita and his grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London, ensues on an journey, solely to search out himself in immense peril, whereas a distraught Rita searches for her lacking son. Blitz marks McQueen’s first sole characteristic screenwriting credit score.
New Titles
BURY YOUR DEAD
Director-Screenwriter Marco Dutra. With Selton Mello, Marjorie Estiano, Danilo Grangheia. Brazil 2024. 128min. Courtesy of m-appeal. Languages Portuguese, Mandarin, Alien with English subtitles. LFF 18.
In a rural space of an apocalyptic Brazil, roadkill collector Edgar is planning an escape along with his girlfriend Nete, however his nights are haunted by violent goals and sleepwalking. After Nete joins her aunt in a non secular cult, Edgar embarks on a dangerous journey by means of ravaged roads affected by chaos to avoid wasting her. Whereas the goriness he reveals is just not for the faint-hearted, Marco Dutra as soon as once more reveals that his knack for world constructing is unrivalled.
FRI 11 OCT 17:45 VUE WEST END SCREEN 5 / SUN 13 OCT 20:50 PRINCE CHARLES CINEMA
DICIANNOVE
Director-Screenwriter Giovanni Tortorici. With Manfredi Marini, Vittoria Planeta, Dana Giuliano. Italy 2024. 109min. Courtesy of Playtime. Language Italian. With English subtitles.
Palermo native Leonardo arrives in London to attend enterprise faculty. Because the novelty of his new environment wears off, he strikes on to Siena to check his true ardour: literature. Although enamoured with the town, Leonardo clashes along with his lecturers and retreats into his personal world – the start of an introspective odyssey of self-realisation. Elevating its narrative by means of formal experimentation, this Luca Guadagnino-produced gem positions Giovanni Tortorici as a filmmaker to observe.
SAT 12 OCT 20:10 VUE WEST END SCREEN 5 / SUN 20 OCT 17:00 CURZON SOHO 2
ELLIS PARK
Director Justin Kurzel Screenwriters Justin Kurzel, Nick Fenton. With Warren Ellis, Femke Den Haas, John Ellis. Australia. 2024. 105 min. Language English, Indonesian, French with English subtitles
Warren Ellis has lived many lives, finally rising from trauma and drug abuse to embark on a journey of private therapeutic. By his success as a musician, working with Nick Cave and as a member of each the Unhealthy Seeds and Soiled Three, he co-founded a wildlife sanctuary that gives animals broken by human captivity with a brand new lease on life. Lovingly shot and candidly instructed, this can be a humbling story of development, redemption and care.
SAT 19 OCT 15:40 PRINCE CHARLES CINEMA / SUN 20 OCT 17:15 CURZON SOHO 3
FIRE OF WIND (FOGO DO VENTO)
Director-Screenwriter Marta Mateus. With Soraia Prudêncio, Maria Catarina Sapata, Safir Eizner. Portugal-Switzerland-France. 2024. 72 min. Courtesy of Clarão Companhia. Language Portuguese with English subtitles.
A neighborhood of winery staff in rural Alentejo develop into the protagonists of Meteus’s magnetically lyrical movie. Brimming with poetry and emotional gravity, their phrases make hauntingly actual the recollections of António de Oliveira Salazar’s dictatorship and subsequent political upheaval. Right here Mateus and her collaborators use filmmaking to navigate the labyrinth of their previous and provides new which means to life’s fragments.
SAT 19 21:00 ICA / SUN 20 18:30 NFT4
THE ASSESSMENT
Director Fleur Fortuné. Screenwriters Mrs & Mr Thomas, John Donnelly. With Elizabeth Olsen, Alicia Vikander, Himesh Patel. UK-Germany-USA 2024. 115min. Courtesy of Quantity 9 Movies. Language English
Profitable scientists Mia and Aaryan dream of being dad and mom, however in a world the place overpopulation is managed by an authoritarian regime they need to first go ‘The Evaluation’. Enter Virginia, who over the subsequent seven days will take a look at boundaries and alter their lives eternally. Fortuné’s fashionable gaze and skilled pacing, coupled with the unimaginable performances by her leads make for a compelling cinematic world and cement Fortuné’s place as an thrilling directorial expertise.
MON 14 20:40 NFT1 / SAT 19 17:55 CURZON MAYFAIR
THE END
Director Joshua Oppenheimer. Screenwriters Rasmus Heisterberg, Joshua Oppenheimer. With Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Moses Ingram, Michael Shannon. Denmark-Germany-Eire-Italy-UK-Sweden 2024. 148min. Courtesy of MUBI. Language English
A post-apocalyptic world, a organic household and their companions – part-found-family, part-hired-help – reside in concord by forgetting the time earlier than the current. However the arrival of a stranger, brimming with emotion, cracks their strictly organised world broad open. However, on this time on the cusp of oblivion, fact seekers quickly discover that compromise is the one possibility for survival. Simply as he did along with his landmark The Act of Killing, Oppenheimer as soon as once more confounds expectations with this singular, significantly minded work.
FRI 11 OCT 20:45 CURZON SOHO 1 / THU 17 OCT 12:00 NFT1
THE SUMMER BOOK
Director Charlie McDowell. Screenwriter Robert Jones. With Glenn Shut, Emily Matthews, Anders Danielsen Lie. Finland-UK 2024. 90min. Language English.
Glenn Shut and Anders Danielsen Lie star in Charlie McDowell’s delicately stunning adaptation of Moomins creator Tove Jansson’s basic novel. Within the wake of her mom’s demise, Sophia (spectacular newcomer Emily Matthews), her grandmother and father spend a summer time on an island off the gulf of Finland. With unbelievable performances from Shut, Danielsen Lie and Matthews, The Summer season E book celebrates the adventures of on a regular basis life. McDowell’s stunningly shot movie vividly brings to life a few of Jansson’s most beloved characters.SAT 12 OCT 15:10 CURZON MAYFAIR / FRI 18 OCT 12:40 NFT2
