60th LONDON FILM FESTIVAL (5th-16th October 2016) DAY 2
Every day (from October 5th to October 16th) I will be selecting the London Film Festival choices you have a chance to get tickets for and the movies you are unlikely to see in London very soon unless you go to see them at the Festival. Here is the LFF's main website for the general information you need. Don't worry if some of the recommended films are sold out by the time you read this as there are always some tickets on offer which go on sale 30 minutes before each screening. Here is all the information you need about the best way to get tickets.
Today's choice is also being shown at the LFF on October 7th. Details here.
LFF introduction:
American history is resurrected through American movies by Bill
Morrison (Decasia). A master artist when it comes to the reconstruction
of archive footage, he reveals a magical dance of the dead in layers of
decaying nitrate stock. The North American Gold Rush of 1896 established
Dawson City on the Klondike and Yukon Rivers in Canada, displacing a
First Nation hunting ground. In 1903, the movies arrived as the town
developed out of its whoring, drinking and gambling origins. It was so
remote, the studios wouldn’t pay for the film prints to be retuned so
they lay buried in the permafrost until rediscovered in 1978. With the
original score composed by Alex Somers, the material is astounding –
reanimating lost silent movie stars, the perils of prospecting, newsreel
of baseball scandals and the expulsion of socialists after the Russian
Revolution. Look out for key information on the origins of Donald
Trump’s wealth!
Helen de Witt
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