Daniel Day-Lewis, Richard Linklater is preparing for talks in the London Film Fest
Daniel Day-Lewis, Richard Linklater, Yorgos Lanthimos and Tessa Thompson are among the stars that will participate in the BFI film festival screen conversations program in London this year.
The famous filmmakers Jafar Panahi, Lynne Ramsay and Chloé Zhao will also join for sessions at the 2025 festival, opening on October 8 with Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY.
Day-Lewis, the only person who won three Oscar for the best actor, is better known for his roles that define the time in films as diverse as My beautiful laundry, The unbearable lightness of being, My left foot, The era of innocence, There will be blood, Lincoln and Ghost thread. You must return to act in the next movie. Anemonewhich also serves as your debut as director.
Lanthimos’s work has established it as one of the most recognized directors of the 21st century. His frequent collaborators include Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone, who star in the recently signed characteristic of Venice Bugonia. Among his most famous projects is Poor things, The favorite, The murder of a sacred deer and Tusk.
Linklater will make an appearance in LFF to discuss its wide filmography, of Stunned and confused, Welles and me and Everyone wants something To comedies Roca School, Bad Bears news and Hitman and the beloved Before trilogy. His latest film, The Cannes Feature Nouvelle vagueFollow the 1959 manufacture of Jean-Luc Godard PantingOne of the first projects introduced by the wave of experimental French cinema.
Panahi, whose work body has criticized Iranian society and had an impact on the real world on his life, will be welcome to discuss his classics. The White Globe, The circle and Offside as well as the most recent films that include Taxi, There are no bears and Closed curtain.
Since its debut in 1999 RatcatcherRamsay has produced Moberner people who call, We need to talk about Kevin and You were never really here continued. She debuted her last movie, Die, my love With Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson at the Cannes Film Festival of this year.
Thompson will be better known for his period in the MCU, especially in Thor: Ragnarok. She also stars Veronica Mars, Value of the Westand Sorry to bother youAnd he was nominated for a bafta for his turn Passed. She will discuss her wide race at the LFF event in October.
Zhao is a Oscar winner for his work at the French star McDormand Nomadic And he comes to the festival to talk about portfolio so far, even in Marvel’s Eternal. She premieres Hamnet With Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley in TIFF this year, praised by THR as “a tremendously acted rompecorazones.”
The protagonist of Emma Corrin and Charli XCX 100 hero nights It will close the BFI London Film Festival 2025.
