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Liam Dunn is an Australian writer living in London since 2013 where he has written film criticism for many different British outlets, including Little White Lies. Liam loves all kinds of cinema, particularly world cinema, but it is with horror, sci-fi and Westerns where you can find his heart. He reckons Werner Herzog is the world’s greatest living filmmaker and will fight anyone who says otherwise.

64th BFI London Film Festival – Day Ten: New Order, Small Axe, Ammonite

Liam Dunn
November 4, 2020
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The final day at LFF2020 brings the Silver Lion award-winning New Order, another instalment of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe film series, Lovers Rock, and closing night film Ammonite, starring Kate Winslet and Sao...

64th BFI London Film Festival Diary – Day Nine: Possessor Review

Liam Dunn
November 2, 2020
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It is day nine and I take a look at Brandon Cronenberg’s dark and intense mind control thriller Possessor. Possessor Renowned horror auteur David Cronenberg, famous for body-horror masterpieces l...

64th BFI London Film Festival Diary – Day Eight: African Apocalypse, Ultraviolence Reviews

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October 20, 2020
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Day eight finds two documentaries made in 2020 exploring the spectre of colonialism and the far-reaching consequences still felt in the 21st century, Rob Lemkin’s African Apocalypse and Ken Fero’s Ultraviolenc...

64th BFI London Film Festival Diary – Day Seven: American Utopia, Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes Reviews

Liam Dunn
October 20, 2020
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On the seventh day LFF offers up two very different music documentaries that perfectly capture their subjects’ personas. Spike Lee directs David Byrne in the film version of his Broadway show American Utopia, ...

64th BFI London Film Festival Diary – Day Six: Another Round, Notturno

Liam Dunn
October 18, 2020
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It is day six and Mads Mikkelsen drinks himself into a stupor but, you know, for science, in Another Round, while award-winning documentarian Gianfranco Rosi looks at life during wartime with Notturno. ...

64th BFI London Film Festival Diary – Day Five: One Night in Miami, The Intruder Reviews

Liam Dunn
October 15, 2020
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On day five I look at two wildly different films: Oscar-winning actor Regina King’s directorial debut One Night in Miami and the spooky Argentinian oddity The Intruder. One Night in Miami Adapted...

64th BFI London Film Festival Diary – Day Four: Wolfwalkers, Wildfire Reviews

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October 13, 2020
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It is a double-feature from Ireland on day four, with the latest animation from Cartoon Saloon, Wolfwalkers and pre-Brexit border drama Wildfire. Wolfwalkers Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon...

64th BFI London Film Festival Diary – Day Three: Never Gonna Snow Again, Undine Reviews

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October 11, 2020
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Day three and it is Polish dramedy Never Gonna Snow Again and Christian Petzold’s Undine, two films that aim for magical realism but don’t quite hit the mark. Never Gonna Snow Again The trope of ...

64th BFI London Film Festival Diary – Day Two: Kajillionaire, Siberia, The Disciple Reviews

Liam Dunn
October 10, 2020
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Today I look at Miranda July’s quirky comedy Kajillionaire, Abel Ferrara’s existential journey into Siberia and India’s Venice award-winning The Disciple. Kajillionaire The American Dream is repe...

64th BFI London Film Festival Diary – Day One: Mangrove, Relic, Shirley Reviews

Liam Dunn
October 9, 2020
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It is the first day of LFF and I take a look at Steve McQueen’s Mangrove, rural-set Australian horror Relic, and Elizabeth Moss in biopic Shirley. Mangrove “The United Kingdom is not a racist country...
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