The Times BFI 50th London Film Festival: Sight & Sound Selection
Sight & Sound selects 12 of the best
- 12:08 East of Bucharest
- Corneliu Porumboiu's droll debut interrogates the legacy of the 1989 Romanian revolution
- 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep
- An eccentric potted history of the Pamir Kirghiz nomads and their struggle to find a new home
- Black Book
- Paul Verhoeven's hard look at World War II dehumanisation on both sides in occupied Holland
- Climates/Iklimer
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan's aching portrait of a relationship breakdown, starring himself and his wife
- Colossal Youth
- Pedro Costa's stark, almost monochrome film is a poetic portrait of Lisbon streetlife
- Days of Glory/Indigènes
- Rachid Bouchareb's powerful drama looks at North Africans fighting for France in World War II
- Distant Voices, Still Lives
- Restoration of Terence Davies' keenly felt remembrance of a troubled family upbringing
- I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
- Tsai Ming-Liang's intoxicating tale of intimate relationships in an overcrowded Kuala Lumpur (image above)
- The Lives of Others
- Excellent, complex Stasi thriller from one of Germany's bright new generation of film-makers
- The Singer
- Gérard Depardieu back to his best as a fading cabaret artist who falls for a one-night stand
- Still Life
- Jia Zhangke's elegiac record of the soon-to-disappear life around the Three Gorges dam
- Ten Canoes
- Rolf de Heer's Aboriginal shaggy-dog story told in time-flipping style
The festival runs from 18 October to 2 November.
See www.lff.org.uk or tel 020 7928 3232
