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Further recommendations
This year's Regus London Film Festival happily remains, as ever, something of a greatest-hits compilation, providing cinephiles with an unparalleled opportunity to catch up on the best of the year's cinema. The biggest behind-the-scenes change is the promotion of former deputy director Sandra Hebron to artistic director, which perhaps accounts for a new air of confidence about the programme. If there's one startlingly fresh ingredient, it's the number of good documentaries she's found, and rather than provide a brief round-up of many we've chosen to focus on Michael Moore's astounding (and at times infuriating) 'Bowling for Columbine' to represent the form's return to prominence. Here we also preview the festival's superb opening film Dirty Pretty Things, Stephen Frears' searing portrait of London's immigrant workers, and below you can find our list of top recommendations.
Top Ten to see at the Regus LFF
- 1 Auto Focus (Paul Schrader, US)
- 2 Carlo Giuliani, a Boy (Francesca Comencini, Italy)
- 3 California Trilogy (James Benning, US)
- 4 Cidade De Deus/City of God (Fernando Meirelles, Brazil)
- 5 Dead or Alive: Final (Miike Takashi, Japan)
- 6 East Side, West Side (Allan Dwan, US)
- 7 Le Fils (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Belgium/France)
- 8 Russkij Kovcheg/Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov, Russia)
- 9 Secretary (Steven Shainberg, US)
- 10 Yadon Ilaheyya/Divine Intervention (Elia Suleiman, France/Palestine)