Lou Thomas
BFI Digital Production Editor | ✍🏻 Sight and Sound, Empire, Time Out, NME and more | Member of London Critics’ Circle (Film section) | Q&A host | Spurs season-ticket holder (block 422) |
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- Two lovely herons live at the lake in Southwark Park, near our flat. I visit them a few times a week and it brings me immense joy.
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- +1 on this. It’s definitely the best one so far. I loved it. Raved about it in a meeting yesterday and was met by indifference and scorn.
- Avatar: Fire and Ash – delirious, thrilling and spectacular. Frankly extraordinary sci-fi/action/fantasy cinema from a bloke who seems to reinvent it every time he makes a film. James Cameron, take a bow, son.
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- Ahead of the release of her new film Die My Love tomorrow, here’s my interview piece with Jennifer Lawrence. www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/j...
- Massive respect to the two ladies who’ve just popped the cork on a bottle of champagne at 8.55am on this Newcastle to King’s Cross train.
- Really enjoyed Guillermo del Toro’s new version of Frankenstein (it’s screening at both BFI cinemas now and streaming next month). Here’s my interview with the film’s stars, Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi. www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/j...
- Me interviewing Jennifer Lawrence last night.
- Love a bit of Brighton.
- Idly watching Boiling Point (1993). Brilliant 90s LA noir of a piece with Deep Cover and even One False Move (both 1992), even if the latter really only begins in LA. Stacked cast led by Snipes includes Hopper, Mortensen and Jonathan Banks. Mostly I just love to lose myself in sweaty crime cinema.
- As we’ve come to expect from Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another is easily one of the year’s best films. Here’s my review for Time Out. www.timeout.com/movies/one-b...
- In recent months I’ve taken to photographing the cormorants and herons who congregate on the nearby docks (chiefly Canada, Greenland, Surrey) and Southwark Park Lake. The beauty and grace of these birds bring me great happiness.
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- Busiest fortnight of the year at work. Had an email request from someone I know and like this morning, so replied “Are you Nicolas Roeg in 1980? Because this is Bad Timing.”
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- Saw Celine Song’s Materialists two nights back. A film of rare empathy. If it doesn’t quite hit the extraordinary heights of Past Lives, it’s still a very impressive work from a director who should be treated as a proper artist with a great deal to say about the human condition.
- Spoke to Loki ledge Tom Hiddleston and the ever-great Chiwetel Ejiofor about their ace Stephen King adaptation The Life of Chuck (in cinemas from today and BFI Southbank from 29 August). bfi.org.uk/interviews/stephen-king-tom-hiddleston-chiwetel-ejiofor-life-chuck
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- First full day since returning from glorious summer hols in Albania and Corfu, hit the cinema to see Together (grossly delicious and darkly amusing) and Weapons (darkly delicious and grossly amusing). Ideal welcome back, cheers lads.
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- Nu-funk banger laced with politically credible sentiment and righteous socialist anger. No surprise to see Sorry to Bother You director and all round top bloke Boots Riley front and centre.
- The Naked Gun is relentlessly hilarious and brilliant. Up there with Splitsville fighting it out for funniest film of the year. We always need comedy but what a relief to have a banger or two this year. Friendship and Happy Gilmore 2 have their moments too. Sweet.
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- There was a massive squirrel named Toast who hung out in the garden of our old flat. We’ve named this unit Bun because, well, just look at that bready wad in his mouth.
- You should be praised, they should be tarred and feathered.
- Went to Terry Gilliam’s house. The result of our 95-minute chat is this career interview, which clocks in at just under 5,000 words and is the longest single piece of written journalism I’ve had published in my career. www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/t...
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- In my raving days, many said I reminded them of Moff (played by Danny Dyer) in Human Traffic. When I saw it, I understood why. 25 years later I’m proud to have written the lead booklet essay for the @BFI 4K Blu-ray. The film still means a lot to us who were there and lived it.
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- Whoever left a stinking bag of fish on the baking hot rush hour southbound Charing Cross branch Northern line tube in recent minutes, I’m annoyed but also cheered by your ridiculous audacity.
- Had a horrible day from start to finish. Then came home and put on The Old Guard 2. Worst film I’ve seen this year. An insult to the eyes and intellect. A complete waste of good actors and the world’s increasingly precious resources. Avoid like a pint of bad milk.
- Watching Wimbledon on telly and ahead of Sinner playing Alcaraz you could hear the centre court PA playing Pet Shop Boys’s It’s a Sin. 10/10, no notes.
- Lovely piece this. Give it a read.
- Had a interesting chat with Hot Milk director Rebecca Lenkiewicz and the ever-brilliant Fiona Shaw. www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/r...
