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Mark Kermode on… director Christopher Nolan, a magician of cinema as memory

From Memento to the Golden Globe-winning Oppenheimer, the head-scrambling British-American director has revelled in using cinema as a time machine – and a conjuring trick

The Guardian - UK

Lunar woes, returning gongs and a Welsh rugby legend – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

Positively shocking: Film season issues caution for ‘outdated’ language in James Bond films

Film watchers are being warned about potentially offensive content ahead of new retrospective

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Licence to offend: BFI season gives James Bond films trigger warnings

The season celebrating the work of British composer John Barry flags films from the 60s and 70s that contain outdated language, images and stereotypes that will cause offence

The Guardian - UK

‘Scorsese says The Red Shoes is in his DNA’: Thelma Schoonmaker on her life and work with Michael Powell and his friend Marty

With her late husband’s 1948 classic back in cinemas, the editor is keen to preserve his legacy and modest about her own phenomenal career

The Guardian - UK

Christopher Nolan to receive BFI Fellowship after blockbuster year

Nolan said he is ‘thrilled and honoured’ to accept film organisation’s highest honour

The Independent UK

Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan to receive BFI fellowship

Director behind Dunkirk, Inception and the Dark Knight trilogy awarded honour for ‘pushing limits’ of cinema

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‘It’s been the craziest moment of my life’: the 2023 British independent film award nominees on risk, romance, and why UK film is on fire

From buzzy romcom Rye Lane via the psychosexual noir Femme to the teen thrills of How to Have Sex, six nominees take us behind the scenes of the exciting new wave of British cinema

The Guardian - UK

Thelma Schoonmaker: Cinemas showing Killers of the Flower Moon with intermission 'a violation'

Director Martin Scorsese has defended the length of his latest work, the acclaimed Killers of the Flower Moon

Evening Standard

‘He showed our lives in ways that had never been seen’: Horace Ové, pioneer of black British cinema

As the BFI dedicates a new season to his ‘radical vision’, friends, family, colleagues and contemporaries remember the director and explain the revolutionary and liberating force of his films

The Guardian - UK

‘Rejecting hatred and fear’: why Powell and Pressburger’s weird, confounding films are perfect for our times

They made 24 often morally complex pictures before falling out of fashion. Now, as a monumental BFI retrospective kicks off, can their stricken pilots and posh ballerinas speak to our divided era?

The Guardian - UK

Martin Scorsese defends 3hr 26m runtime of Killers of the Flower Moon: ‘Give cinema some respect’

Veteran filmmaker’s latest release beats Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ by nearly half an hour

The Independent UK

Madras High Court played a role in selecting the Indian Men’s Bridge team that clinched silver in Asian Games 2023

Congrats to Indian Men's Bridge Team for Silver Medal at Asian Games; Madras High Court played key role in selection. Bench dismissed writ appeal of OCI seeking to represent India in international tournaments. Court concurred with BFI that only Indian citizens can represent country. Judges stated OCI cardholders cannot seek…

The Hindu

Great new British directors: five acclaimed debut films to watch

UK film-makers such as Molly Manning Walker, Charlotte Regan and Luna Carmoon are part of a new wave taking top awards at the film festivals

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Evening Standard

OPINION - Lucy Frazer: This London Film Festival will be like no other

I started this week at Conservative Party Conference where I made a speech celebrating the fantastic achievement of our Creative Industries over the last decade. I described how we were in a Golden Age for British Culture and this had been supported by Government action, from tax reliefs to the…

The Guardian - UK

‘A secret no one talked about’: Michael Morpurgo on discovering his real father – and hating Spielberg’s War Horse

As he turns 80, the prolific children’s author takes us on a tour of his Devon village, to talk about family bombshells, the burning of Joan of Arc – and finally getting a film adaptation he likes

The Independent UK

Steve McQueen defends four-hour runtime of new Nazi documentary: ‘An hour and a half wouldn’t do it a service’

A24-produced documentary looks at 130 locations in Amsterdam that relate to the Jewish community

Evening Standard

BFI Screen Talks: Martin Scorsese and Greta Gerwig among the star directors jetting in for on-stage interviews

Tickets are available now for a star-studded line up that includes some of the world’s most celebrated directors

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Stephen Herbert obituary

Other lives: Expert in the technical aspects of the film industry who worked for the National Film Theatre

Evening Standard

BFI London Film Festival unveils 2023 free programme with Marvel and Chicken Run events

Tickets for the free events run out quickly, so get booking from 10am on Monday

Evening Standard

BFI London Film Festival’s Kristy Matheson: ‘The scope and the scale of the LFF is a thrilling challenge’

The new director talks about her first year running the festival, looking for different voices and missing Australian supermarkets

The Guardian - UK

Sir Horace Ové obituary

Director who examined life in multicultural Britain in pioneering films such as Pressure, a defining work of black British cinema

Evening Standard

BFI London Film Festival 2023: when is it, what’s on and how to get tickets?

This year’s line-up also boasts 252 titles from 92 countries

The Independent UK

BFI London Film Festival line-up includes new Martin Scorsese, Hayao Miyazaki and Sofia Coppola films

David Fincher, Yorgos Lanthimos and Emerald Fennell will also screen new movies at UK event

Evening Standard

Killers of the Flower Moon leads the way in bumper 2023 BFI London Film Festival schedule

The 12-day festival, centred around the BFI theatre on South Bank but also featuring cinemas across London and the UK, kicks off on Ocotber 4

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