The Lawn · News & commentary
Page 7 · 15 Sep 2025 to 2 Aug 2025
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The BFI Player’s 15 September selection puts cheesemaking, club culture, crime journalism, mobsters and alien horror in one gloriously unstable cultural corridor.
Tsai’s Back Home lets a rural Laos landscape carry the film, leaving Hollywood’s plot machinery waiting outside the village.
The London Film Festival offers 247 works from 79 countries, 12 days of cinema and one timetable capable of defeating civilisation.
In Park’s No Other Choice, a desperate father treats murderous competition as the logical conclusion of modern recruitment language.
Miyake Sho’s quiet Locarno winner celebrates solitude, tentative connection and the heroic decision to escape the networking reception.
The Naked Gun reboot gives Liam Neeson a badge, removes his gravitas and sends Hollywood comedy into an 85 minute witness protection programme.
Cat sitting job becomes a dangerous 1998 crime caper, proving that twice daily visits need clearer terms.
Family Video spanning twenty years became Motherboard, proving a life can be edited before a phone runs out of storage.
Male Gaze management faces review as the BFI honours Laura Mulvey and marks fifty years since Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.
Sense And Sensibility returns to cinemas with its wit, social bite and an audience suddenly unable to check a phone without shame.
Beautiful Laundrette locations mark forty years as London proves that every cultural memory can acquire an estate agent.
BFI Summer Holiday replaces the beach with Sophia Loren, French cinema and a deckchair that questions its own framing.
