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A handful of Friday highlights at the 2009 The Times-BFI London Film Festival: The Road, based on Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, sounds like the perfect Thanksgiving movie: "An unnamed man (Viggo Mortensen) and his young son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) travel alone through a post-apocalyptic landscape, ravaged by an unspecified catastrophe. Ash and soot hang in the air, it is cold enough to crack stones, and [...]

Joseph Losey at the bfi Schedule and film info from the bfi: Accident * 5 – 18 June Joseph Losey’s brilliant study of simmering class conflict, sexual tension and the British character. The Big Night * Thu 4 Jun 18:40 * Tue 9 Jun 18:20 Joseph Losey’s final American film co-scripted with novelist Stanley Ellin. Blind Date * Mon 1 Jun 20:40 * Tue 9 [...]

Dirk Bogarde, James Fox in The Servant (top); The Damned (bottom) "Among the greatest things that happened to British cinema were the arrival on our shores of the Korda brothers in the 30s, Losey in the 50s and Kubrick in the 60s," reads the introduction to an upcoming Joseph Losey series, which runs June 1-July 23 at the bfi Southbank in London. The Wisconsin-born (on [...]

London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2009 Wednesday, April 8, highlights Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website   "Mortal Desires" Vampires, hoodlums, a hot detective and a few high class call girls make up this programme of sexy lesbian shorts. In Twilight’s Shadow (above) USA 2008. Dir T.M. Scorzafava. 12min. Carlisle’s girlfriend is being held hostage and she’ll do all it takes to get [...]