"This year's BFI London Film Festival line-up has been announced in full - and the fest will be a happy homecoming for one of the city's greatest actors. Daniel Day-Lewis's new film, , is one of the films on the LFF's newly announced 2025 programme. Directed by his son Ronan, it's the Londoner's first screen appearance since Phantom Thread in 2017. He'll also be appearing for a sure-to-be roadblocked screen talk at the festival."
"Other standouts on this year's line-up include Park Chan-wook's capitalist satire No Other Choice and Chloé Zhao's . An adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's 2020 novel, it's drawn instant Oscar buzz since its Telluride debut last week. Really giving it the big one, the reliably brilliant Richard Linklater has films at the fest: wistful songwriting drama Blue Moon and his snappy love letter to '60s cine-radical Jean-Luc Godard, New Wave"
"Time Out will be presenting a BFI IMAX screening of Oliver Laxe's extraordinary Sirât, a desert odyssey that's equal parts and Mad Max: Fury Road . It's guaranteed to melt minds on the biggest screen in Britain. Look out, too, for, Harry Lighton's BDSM romance , Jim Jarmusch's latest Father Mother Sister Brother, The Brutalist screenwriter Mona Fastvold's directorial debut The Testament of Ann Lee, and director Mark Jenkin's Rose of Nevada."
The BFI London Film Festival 2025 programme has been announced in full. Daniel Day-Lewis returns to the screen in a new film directed by his son Ronan, marking his first appearance since Phantom Thread in 2017, and will take part in a prominent screen talk. The line-up includes Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice, Chloé Zhao's adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's novel, Richard Linklater's Blue Moon and New Wave, and Oliver Laxe's Sirât at the BFI IMAX. Additional highlights include Jim Jarmusch, Mona Fastvold, Mark Jenkin, a Marianne Faithfull drama, a Bruce Springsteen biopic, and 11 new LFF Expanded VR works. Major filmmakers including Chloé Zhao, Lynne Ramsay, Jafar Panahi and Yorgos Lanthimos will give screen talks.
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