The festival wraps up tonight with a second dose of Tom Hanks, this time skirmishing with Mary Poppins author PL Travers rather than fighting off Somali pirates.
There are only two other films getting their first screenings today, one from the 1950s, the other from the 1960s: the first is classic western Cowboy (1958), starring Glenn Ford as the grizzled veteran and Jack Lemmon as the greenhorn; and then there’s the film version of Peter Brook’s agit prop RSC stage play US, retitled Tell Me Lies (1968) for the screen, about the Vietnam war.
If you fancy something a little more up-to-date, head out to Rich Mix for the final screening of the hugely impressive Kazakh film Harmony Lessons, about a boy from the remote steppes who heads to the local town’s school and becomes involved in its brutal world of bullying and extortion. Don’t expect a piece of social realism, though: with brilliant lighting and gorgeous compositions, director Emir Balgazin produces an elegantly stylish film which balances the cruelty and isolation against a cinema aesthetic which heralds the arrival of a major new talent… and the end of London’s cinematic feast for another year.
That’s all, folks.
Sun Oct 20, Rich Mix, 20:45
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