Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🎞Dec 23

RE: https://mstdn.social/@TAKEONECinema/115769642048852962

Finishing up my year by banging on about a second really good #football doc. This time we’re going global with my spiel about football & football fandom as a tool for understanding communities & societies, with Ragnhild Ekner’s ULTRAS out of #LFF a couple of months ago. Review for @TAKEONECinema! #cinemastodon

DeadlineNov 7

London Film Festival Clocks Record Attendance & ‘Hamnet’ Wins Audience Award
#News #BFI #Hamnet #LFF #LondonFilmFestival

https://deadline.com/2025/11/london-film-festival-record-attendance-hamnet-award-1236610542/

London Film Festival Clocks Record Attendance & ‘Hamnet’ Wins Audience Award 

‘Hamnet’ won the festival's Audience Award.

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Tilman BeitterNov 4

I think it's key to force this Vini guy to always perform his pathetic theatrics outside your penalty area. I only see him play football a few times a year, and every time I cringe with embarrassment.

Up the #Reds! No matter the outcome, that will and energy is what we all want to see on the pitch, right?

Give it all and we're gonna be fine! ❤️

#LFF #LIVRMA

TAKE ONE Magazine 📽️🎞️Oct 28
"Director Cyril Aris’s A SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD tells a story that can and has collapsed into a maudlin heap many times on film. However, the gentle chemistry of the romantic leads, the dexterity with which the film handles the passage of time, and the sincerity of relatable themes refracted through a Lebanese prism make the film an affecting and engaging romantic drama." - @JimGR from #LFF: https://takeonecinema.net/2025/a-sad-and-beautiful-world/
A Sad and Beautiful World | TAKE ONE | BFI London 2025

Director Cyril Aris’s A SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD tells a story that can and has collapsed into a maudlin heap many times on film. However, the gentle chemistry of the romantic leads, the dexterity with which the film handles the passage of time, and the sincerity of relatable themes refracted through a Lebanese prism make the film an affecting and engaging romantic drama.

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TAKE ONE Magazine 📽️🎞️Oct 27
"DIE MY LOVE is unlikely to be considered the pinnacle of Ramsay’s career. Still, even when revisiting themes, the intense clarity of vision ensures Ramsay’s work continues to feel fresh and ominously vibrant." - @JimGR reviews out of #LFF: https://takeonecinema.net/2025/die-my-love/
Die My Love | TAKE ONE | BFI London 2025

DIE MY LOVE is unlikely to be considered the pinnacle of Ramsay’s career. Still, even when revisiting themes, the intense clarity of vision ensures Ramsay’s work continues to feel fresh and ominously vibrant.

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Phil EdwardsOct 24

London Film Festival Review: The Secret Agent – “defies easy classification.” Read it here https://www.liveforfilm.com/2025/10/24/london-film-festival-review-the-secret-agent-defies-easy-classification/ by Becky Lima-Matthews

#TheSecretAgent #film #review #KleberMendonçaFilho #LFF #LFF2025 #WagnerMoura #CarlosFrancisco #TaniaMaria

Phil EdwardsOct 23

London Film Festival Review: High Wire – “It’s an impressive and personal debut by Calif Chong.” Read it here https://www.liveforfilm.com/2025/10/23/london-film-festival-review-high-wire-its-an-impressive-and-personal-debut-by-calif-chong/ by Becky Lima-Matthews

#HighWire #film #CalifChong #IsabellaWei #KaWaLam #ElizabethTan #LondonFilmFestival #LFF #LFF2025

TAKE ONE Magazine 📽️🎞️Oct 23
“ANEMONE is fortunate in being able to call upon Daniel Day-Lewis’s first film performance in eight years. Although Ronan Day-Lewis manages to garner a performance of simmering intensity from his father, their co-written script is flat and opaque to the point of tedium.” - @JimGR’s #LFF review: https://takeonecinema.net/2025/anemone/
Anemone | TAKE ONE | BFI London 2025

ANEMONE is fortunate in being able to call upon Daniel Day-Lewis’s first film performance in eight years. Although Ronan Day-Lewis manages to garner a performance of simmering intensity from his father, their co-written script is flat and opaque to the point of tedium.

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TAKE ONE Magazine 📽️🎞️Oct 22
"Both Shakespeare & Zhao acknowledge the beauty of grief, which is, of course, a form of love, as well as its horrific reality. [...] Tears streamed down my face, my breath coming in shudders by the end." - Sophie Russell writes on HAMNET from #LFF: https://takeonecinema.net/2025/hamnet/
Hamnet: Shakespeare would have approved | TAKE ONE | BFI London 2025

Both Shakespeare and Zhao acknowledge the beauty of grief, which is, of course, a form of love, as well as its horrific reality. Whatever you have lost will be touched upon when you see this film. Tears streamed down my face, my breath coming in shudders by the end.

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TAKE ONE Magazine 📽️🎞️Oct 21
"If #MaryShelley’s novel can be considered the dense and sprawling sheet music for an orchestral symphony of ideas, then #GuillermoDelToro’s arrangement here is sparser. However, even if the result lacks some of the richness laid out on the page, the tune of #FRANKENSTEIN extracts tension, horror and beauty that harmonises with the full version." - @JimGR reviews from #LFF: https://takeonecinema.net/2025/frankenstein/ #cinemastodon #filmreview #cinema #moviereview
Frankenstein | TAKE ONE | BFI London 2025

If Shelley’s novel can be considered the dense and sprawling sheet music for an orchestral symphony of ideas, then Del Toro’s arrangement here is sparser. However, even if the result lacks some of the richness laid out on the page, the tune of FRANKENSTEIN extracts tension, horror and beauty that harmonises with the full version.

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