{"id":389084,"date":"2025-09-01T11:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/389084\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T11:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:31:11","slug":"daniel-day-lewis-richard-linklater-set-for-talks-at-london-film-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/389084\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Day-Lewis, Richard Linklater Set for Talks at London Film Fest"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDaniel Day-Lewis<\/a>, Richard Linklater<\/a>, Yorgos Lanthimos<\/a> and Tessa Thompson<\/a> are among the stars set to participate in the BFI London Film Festival<\/a>\u2018s Screen Talks program this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tCelebrated filmmakers Jafar Panahi<\/a>, Lynne Ramsay<\/a> and Chlo\u00e9 Zhao will also join for sessions at the 2025 festival, opening Oct. 8 with Rian Johnson\u2019s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.<\/p>\n

\n\tDay-Lewis, the only person to win three best actor Oscars, is best known for his era-defining roles in such diverse films as\u00a0My Beautiful Laundrette,\u00a0The Unbearable Lightness of Being,\u00a0My Left Foot,\u00a0The Age of Innocence,\u00a0There Will Be Blood,\u00a0Lincoln\u00a0and\u00a0Phantom Thread. \u00a0He is due to make his return to acting in the upcoming film Anemone, which also serves as his directorial debut.<\/p>\n

\n\tLanthimos\u2019 work has established him as one of the most renowned directors of the 21st century. His frequent collaborators include Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone, who star in the recently-premiered Venice feature Bugonia. Among his most famous projects is Poor Things, The Favourite, The Killing of a Sacred Deer and Dogtooth.<\/p>\n

\n\tLinklater will make an appearance at LFF to discuss his wide-ranging filmography, from Dazed and Confused, Me and Orson Welles and Everybody Wants Some to the comedies School of Rock, Bad News Bears and Hit Man and the beloved Before trilogy. His latest film, the Cannes feature Nouvelle Vague, follows the making of Jean-Luc Godard\u2019s 1959 Breathless, one of the first projects to usher in the wave of experimental French cinema.<\/p>\n

\n\tPanahi, whose body of work has critiqued Iranian society and had a real-world impact on his life, will be welcomed to discuss his classics The White Balloon, The Circle and Offside as well as the more recent films including Taxi, No Bears and Closed Curtain.<\/p>\n

\n\tSince her 1999 feature debut Ratcatcher, Ramsay has produced Movern Caller, We Need to Talk About Kevin and You Were Never Really Here followed. She debuted her latest film, Die, My Love with Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson at this year\u2019s Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tThompson will be best known for her stint in the MCU, especially in Thor: Ragnarok. She\u2019s also starred in Veronica Mars, Westworld, and Sorry to Bother You, and was nominated for a BAFTA for her turn in Passing. She will discuss her wide-ranging career at the LFF event in October.<\/p>\n

\n\tZhao is an Oscar winner for her work on the Frances McDormand-starring Nomadland and comes to the festival to talk about portfolio so far, including on Marvel\u2019s Eternals. She premieres Hamnet with Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley at TIFF this year, lauded by THR as \u201ca tremendously acted heartbreaker.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Emma Corrin and Charli xcx-starring 100 Nights of Hero will close the BFI London Film Festival 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Day-Lewis, Richard Linklater, Yorgos Lanthimos and Tessa Thompson are among the stars set to participate in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[121444,127516,748,134883,68473,393,4884,522,134884,257,50518,49921,134885,16,15,33971],"class_list":{"0":"post-389084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-bfi-london-film-festival","9":"tag-bfi-london-film-festival-2025","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-chloe-zhao","12":"tag-daniel-day-lewis","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-international","16":"tag-jafar-panahi","17":"tag-london","18":"tag-lynne-ramsay","19":"tag-richard-linklater","20":"tag-tessa-thompson","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-yorgos-lanthimos"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115128820288295858","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}