This past week, the British Film Institute staged its annual programme launch event for the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, which kicks off its 28th edition on March 20th. But the big news this year was that the festival is changing its name to
BFI Flare. The launch party was great fun, as always, attended by filmmakers, journalists and industry bods who become like a family this time of year.
As for screenings, we had Kevin Hart and Ice Cube in the occasionally entertaining action comedy
Ride Along, Liam Hemsworth in the preposterous but sleek thriller
Paranoia, the cleverly freaky indie revenge drama
Blue Ruin, Del Shores' astute filmed play
Southern Baptist Sissies, the marriage documentary
112 Weddings and the Canadian digital series
Coming Out, watched in one go. I also saw a few films that will be at BFI Flare next month.
This coming week I will catch up just in time with three Oscar nominees: Hayao Miyazaki's acclaimed animated epic
The Wind Rises and the buzzy docs
20 Feet From Stardom and
Dirty Wars. (This leaves only one Oscar-nominated feature I won't have seen on Sunday night: foreign-language nominee
Omar.) Also this week, we have the sequel
300: Rise of an Empire, the animated
Wrinkles and three more docs:
Bridegroom,
Next Goal Wins and Errol Morris'
The Unknown Known.
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