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Wild Horse Nine • A revitalising shot of pure entertainment from writer/director Martin McDonagh that also operates as a salty critique of modern US foreign policy.
STRAIGHT SHOOTER A CONVERSATION WITH JOHN MALKOVICH • The acting legend on channeling decades of personal passions into the role of a melancholy hitman in Wild Horse Nine.
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME A CONVERSATION WITH SAM ROCKWELL • An alumnus of Martin McDonagh’s stage and screen work picks apart one of his funniest and most heartbreaking turns.
MAN AT THE TOP A CONVERSATION WITH MARTIN MCDONAGH • Writing a follow-up to his beloved The Banshees of Inisherin was always going to be a tough task. Yet the playwright turned filmmaker has unearthed more cinema gold in his Easter Island-set CIA comedy Wild Horse Nine.
REVOLUTIONARY ACTS A CONVERSATION WITH MARIANA DI GIROLAMO • The Chilean actor on speed-learning English for a pivotal role in Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine.
THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON’T THEY? • Celebrating the fine folks who mounted a Hollywood film shoot in one of the most remote places on Earth.
Extraordinary Films. Curated By Exceptional Festivals.
I’D RATHER JACK • CHARTING THE CINEMATIC, LITERARY AND ONLINE LEGACY OF JFK’S TRAGIC DEMISE ON 22 NOVEMBER, 1963.
WORKING REMOTELY • A GUIDE TO SOME OF THE MOST FAR-FLUNG MOVIE LOCATIONS IN THE HISTORY OF CINEMA.
THE DOS & DON’TS OF THE BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2026 • Unless you’ve been zipped inside a sleeping bag at the bottom of a deep, deep cave, you’ll probably be aware of the fact that, on 7 October, the BFI London Film Festival will be rolling into the capital and terraforming all the best cinemas into outposts for this citywide celebration of the best-in-world cinema, past, present and future. So here’s a handy guide to the festival to help you avert potential disaster.
WILD HORSE NINE
Wild Love: On the set of Laika’s Wildwood • LWLies heads to Portland, Oregon, to visit one of the world’s central hubs of gorgeous, handmade, stop-frame animation.
Making Marie Antoinette
Primetime
Lance Oppenheim • With Primetime, the non-fiction specialist switches to drama for a discomforting exploration of a lurid US TV sensation.
Gentle Monster
Case 137
The Lost Children of Tuam
All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea
Digger
La Bola Negra
Los Javis • Javiers Ambrossi and Calvo (aka Los Javis) on their celebrated, time-spanning reclamation of lost queer histories, La Bola Negra.
Cotton Queen
Filipiñana
Animol
Possible Love
Lee Chang-dong • The Korean maestro returns with a sumptuous survey of class, capitalism and what it means to love someone in Possible Love.
Fjord
I Love Boosters
Tenzing
Fatherland
Paweł Pawlikowski • The Polish writer/director on why he craves pure, dramatic simplicity in the stories he tells.
Forgotten Island
By Design
Amanda Kramer • Imitation, gender and Joanna Hogg fandom are key inspirations for the restless writer/director/artist behind absurdist comedy By Design.
Minotaur
Josephine
Beth de Araújo • Personal experience became a dark inspration for this second-time director’s unflinching and wide-ranging exploration of childhood trauma, Josephine.
Simone Barbès or Virtue
The Frighteners
Zipang
The Monster Squad
Welcome II the Terrordome
Romper Stomper
Visitor Q
Survive Style 5+
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