US indie great Richard Linklater joined the festival to talk time, hangouts and why the era when he made Dazed and Confused was ”a different world”.

Mixing romance, bromance, crime, spaghetti western action and unforgettable musical numbers, Ramesh Sippy’s colourful classic remains one of Bollywood’s defining hits.

The LFF closing night film is a storybook fable based on Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel. We spoke to director Julia Jackman about a movie rooted in fairytales but with a very contemporary call to ...

The final shot of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s glorious, barbed 1950 masterpiece sneakily suggests that the real villain is not Eve Harrington herself but female ambition in general.

A young girl’s life is upended by tragedy in Belgian drama Têtes brûlées. Director Maja-Ajmia Yde Zellama told us about avoiding the clichés of violent masculinity and the limits of storytelling as a ...

From Akinola Davies Jr’s feature debut My Father’s Shadow to Mark Jenkin’s Rose of Nevada, this year’s festival programme features the work of many alumni of our early-career support and funding ...

From Eyes Without a Face to Raw, French horror trips the line between realism and the uncanny, and pushes into a realm of profound discomfort.

In a London Film Festival programme crammed with the best of new cinema from across the world, many films – some by established auteurs, others by exciting new voices – are still seeking a distributor ...

In the first of this year’s LFF Screen Talks, Lanthimos sat down with Succession creator Jesse Armstrong to reveal the secret ingredients and approach to actors that underpin his uniquely weird brand ...

The Film Society, a monthly miscellany staged at West End venues in London between 1925 and 1939, played a critical role in helping to define film as the seventh art. Here are seven ways it did so, ...

The Oscar-winning Nomadland director joined an LFF Screen Talk to discuss her sensitivity to sadness, building pressure with the frame, and her acclaimed new adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet.

The annual awards celebrate creative audacity among emerging UK filmmakers.