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The 12 best films to see at the London Film Festival from Poor Things to The Kitchen

The LFF is the place to catch new films with stars including Emma Stone, Jodie Comer, Riz Ahmed, Jeremy Allen White

Evening Standard

Venice Film Festival round-up: From Yorgos Lanthimos standout Poor Things to Michael Mann’s operatic Ferrari

Festivalgoers will surely agree that the 2023 competition was one of the most eclectic and eccentric in recent memory, writes Geoffrey Macnab

The Independent UK

Emma Stone-led 'Poor Things' wins top prize at 80th Venice Film Festival

“Poor Things,” a film about Victorian-era female empowerment, has won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival

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Venice film festival 2023 week two roundup – Priscilla, Bernstein, refugees and hitmen

Emma Stone goes wild in a zany Victorian fantasy, Woody Allen gets one of the biggest laughs of the week, Carey Mulligan turns in a career-best performance – and the Golden Lion should go to Agnieszka Holland’s searing Green Border

The Guardian - UK

Hollywood strikes tone down the glamour at Venice Film Festival

Film critic Emma Jones brings us highlights from the 80th edition of the Venice Film Festival. The strong lineup of potential Oscars contenders included Sofia Coppola's Priscilla Presley biopic and Yorgos Lanthimos's genre-defying "Poor Things", starring Emma Stone. Still, Emma reports that "La Mostra" felt somewhat less glamorous this year,…

France 24

Emma Stone receives praise for ‘fearless’ sex scenes in Poor Things

Actor stars in Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest sci-fi, which has been hailed by critics as ‘one of the best films of the year’

The Independent UK

Poor Things movie review: Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone have triumphed again

After The Favourite, this new offering will cement the director's reputation as a brilliant popular filmmaker

Evening Standard

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2023's Weirdest Sci-Fi Thriller is an Absurdist Masterpiece

With his tantalizingly twisted Frankenstein riff 'Poor Things,' Yorgos Lanthimos has made his best and weirdest movie to date.

Inverse

Emma Stone receives huge praise for ‘fearless’, full-throttle sex scenes in Poor Things

Actor stars in Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest sci-fi, which has been hailed by critics as ‘one of the best films of the year’

The Independent UK

Emma Stone had ‘no shame’ filming wild nude scenes for Poor Things, director says

Actor stars in Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest sci-fi, which has been hailed by critics as ‘one of the best films of the year’

The Independent UK

Lanthimos’s Poor Things fuels speculation of sex scene’s return to cinema

Director’s latest film has more explicit scenes than almost all modern studio-backed features

The Guardian - UK

Poor Things review – Emma Stone has a sexual adventure in Yorgos Lanthimos’s virtuoso comic epic

Stone gives a hilarious, beyond-next-level performance as Bella Baxter, the experimental subject of a troubled Victorian anatomist, in Lanthimos’s toweringly bizarre comedy

The Guardian - UK

Poor Things review: Emma Stone has never been bolder than in this odd, surreal farce

Oscar winner plays a dead woman brought back to life by a mad scientist who embeds her unborn baby’s brain in her head

The Independent UK

Lanthimos, Scorsese and Miyazaki: London film festival lineup announced

The 12-day event will screen more than 200 films, including world premieres and much anticipated titles such as The Boy and the Heron, reputedly Hayao Miyazaki’s final film

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The Independent UK

Poor Things: New Yorgos Lanthimos film receives ‘applause’ and is hailed ‘best of the year’

It sounds like it could be Oscar number two for lead star Emma Stone

The Guardian - UK

Vanishing act: what happens when stars don’t show up for the red carpet?

As the Sag-Aftra strikes roll on, film schedules are being torn up and A-listers are ditching promotional duties. But what’s a film festival without the talent?

The Independent UK

BFI London Film Festival line-up includes new Martin Scorsese, Hayao Miyazaki and Sofia Coppola films

David Fincher, Yorgos Lanthimos and Emerald Fennell will also screen new movies at UK event

Evening Standard

Killers of the Flower Moon leads the way in bumper 2023 BFI London Film Festival schedule

The 12-day festival, centred around the BFI theatre on South Bank but also featuring cinemas across London and the UK, kicks off on Ocotber 4

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The Guardian - UK

Venice film festival 2023: our critic’s picks of 10 to watch

Yorgos Lanthimos goes more surreal than ever, Adam Driver pulls on Ferrari’s racing gloves and Polish auteurs get political in this year’s lineup

Total Film

Emma Stone’s unique Poor Things character look was actually a mistake

Exclusive: Emma Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos break down her Frankenstein's-monster-esque character in Poor Things

Inverse

The Most Exciting Sci-Fi Thriller of the Year May Be In Trouble

An iconic director's foray into genre filmmaking is getting pushed back.

The Guardian - UK

Venice film festival picks starry films despite actors’ strike

Hollywood films vying for Golden Lion include Bradley Cooper’s Maestro and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, with non-competition films by Wes Anderson and Richard Linklater

Total Film

7 new movies premiering at Venice Film Festival that we can't wait to see

From David Fincher, Michael Mann, Sofia Coppola, and more

The Independent UK

Venice Film Festival unveils A-list lineup with ‘Priscilla,’ ‘Ferrari,’ ‘Maestro’ amid strikes

Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein drama “Maestro,” Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla Presley movie, Michael Mann’s “Ferrari,” David Fincher’s “The Killer” and Ava DuVernay’s “Origin” will be making their world debuts at the Venice International Film Festival this fall

Total Film

Emma Stone is Frankenstein's monster in first full-length Poor Things trailer

Yorgos Lanthimos' next movie gets weird

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