#bestfilminlondontoday: #LFF picks: Day 11 (Sat Oct 17) 'Like all of James Gray's best films, PAPER TIGER [screening
@princecharlescinema.com] is both sweepingly mythic and hauntingly personal all at once' @davidehrlich.bsky.social capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/09/capi...

#bestfilminlondontoday: #LFF picks Day 10 (Fri Oct 16) 'After being blacklisted, Chytilová returns to her radical style with a film that still resonates in a society of individuals living in crowded isolation' Giulia Saccogna. PANELSTORY (1979)
at BFI capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/09/capi...

#bestfilminlondontoday: #LFF picks: Day 9 (Thu Oct 15) In
@tnyfrontrow.bsky.social's list of "The Greatest Independent Films of the Twentieth Century" (newyorker.com/culture/the-...), LA DERIVE (1964) at BFI Southbank capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/09/capi...

#bestfilminlondontoday: #LFF picks: Day 8 (Wed Oct 14) 'a rich, emotionally satisfying and superbly acted bittersweet drama about the bumpy journey of coming to terms with loss' Kelly O’Sullivan/Alex Thompson's MOUSE Vue Cinema West End capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/09/capi...

#bestfilminlondontoday: #LFF picks: Day 7 (Tue Oct 13) 'Equal parts The Spirit of the Beehive and Picnic at Hanging Rock, this film explores the costs and concessions of trying to move on from Pinochet' Martelli's eerie THE MELTDOWN
Vue Cinema West End capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/09/capi...

#bestfilminlondontoday #LFF picks Day 6 Mon Oct 12 'Okonedo's mesmeric as Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway decamps to Nigeria' @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social 'Captivating look at class & gender in contemporary Nigerian society' in CLARISSA Vue Cinema West End capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/09/capi...

#bestfilminlondontoday: #LFF picks: Day 5 (Sun Oct 11) 'stunning coming-of-age story of young love and sexual tension' @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social. Marine Atlan’s impressive first feature LA GRADIVA at BFI Southbank capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/09/capi...

#bestfilminlondontoday: #LFF picks: Day 4 (Sat Oct 10) 'Western writer-director Valeska Grisebach’s film is a skilfully directed drama with a strong feminist spine' THE DREAMED ADVENTURE at BFI Southbank capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/09/capi...

#bestfilminlondontoday: #LFF picks: Day 3 (Fri Oct 9) 'we are shown to be vain, lustful, perverse, self-serving, murderous, disease-ridden, exploitative. Approach with extreme caution' @tomhuddleston.bsky.social. THE DEVILS landmark director’s cut at BFI capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/09/capi...

#bestfilminlondontoday: #LFF picks: Day 2 (Thu Oct 8) 'Javier Bardem turns in a career-scariest performance'
@peterbradshaw1.bsky.social. Cannes hit THE BELOVED at Royal Festival Hall capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/09/capital-celluloid-2026-day-280-thu-oct-8.html

#bestfilminlondontoday: #LFF picks: Day 1 (Wed Oct 7) 'the haunting, dreamlike consistency recalls that other fairy story of innocence & menace, The Night of the Hunter' Restored screening of Powell & Pressburger's rarely seen GONE TO EARTH 1950 at BFI capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/09/capi...

#bestfilminlondontoday Sep 6 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to rep cinema scene. 'Chris Marker’s 1982 masterpiece is one of the key nonfiction films of our time' J Rosenbaum ... 35mm screening BFI Southbank in Sarah Maldoror season ... capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/08/capi...

#bestfilminlondontoday Sep 5 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to rep cinema scene. 35mm screening of Peter Yates' THE DRESSER (1983) 'animated by two gigantic performances ... Albert Finney & Tom Courtenay @davidleancinema.bsky.social capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/08/capi...

#bestfilminlondontoday Oct 6 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com. 'Chabrol’s most elegant, acerbic and heartfelt entertainments in years.' THE GIRL CUT IN TWO with intro by director's daughter and scriptwriter, Cécile, at BFI capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/08/capi...

#bestfilminlondontoday Oct 5 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com. Described by Scorsese as "a deeply — and I mean deeply — unsettling and disturbing movie” WAKE IN FRIGHT English premiere of @arrowvideo.bsky.social 4K restoration @princecharlescinema.com capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/08/capi...

#bestfilminlondontoday Oct 4 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to rep cinema scene. Walerian Borowczyk's bizarre, remarkable film BLANCHE (1971) in excellent Contemporary Films season at ICA Cinema capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/08/capi...

#bestfilminlondontoday Oct 3 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to rep cinema scene. 'heady tale of amour fatale' 35mm screening of THE BRIDESMAID (2004) in Chabrol season
at BFI w/ intro by season curator Catherine Wheatley capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/08/capi...

#bestfilminlondontoday Oct 2 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com. Hugely enjoyable trip through the 'decline and fall of the Studio 54-era disco scene in early-1980s Manhattan' in @whitstillman.bsky.social's THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO (35mm) at BFI capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/08/capi...

#bestfilminlondontoday Sep 3 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com. ‘One can find a glancing relationship with Cassavetes's first feature, but the style and milieu is English to the core’ Mike Leigh’s extraordinary BLEAK MOMENTS w/director Q&A at BFI capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2026/07/capi...