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LIFF29 closes with Carol at Leeds Town Hall
15 days of films and events across the city draw to a close tomorrow with 29th Leeds International Film Festival's Closing Film screening of Todd Haynes' Carol, a gorgeously realised period drama set in New York in the fifties and a stirring adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Price of Salt. Cate Blanchett stars as the glamorous Manhattan housewife who embarks on a secret love affair with a naive young department store clerk, played by Rooney Mara, which has seismic and far-reaching consequences.
Following the screening, the winners of this year's LIFF29 Audience Award for Best Film will be announced on the festival's Twitter and Facebook, in the three categories of New Narrative Feature, Documentary Feature and Retrospective Feature.
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Calvin Johnson Live + The Shield Around the K
Calvin Johnson is the founder of the enduring and influential US indie label K Records - so beloved by Kurt Cobain he had their logo tattoo'd on his arm. Here is a rare opportunity to see Calvin Johnson live in concert, as he tours with the even-rarer Shield Around The K (2000) documentary film. Presented by Beacons Metro and LIFF29 (and free to passholders).
Thu 19 November, 7.00pm @ Duke Studios
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Creatures of the Night: Love
Enfant terrible Gaspar Noe returns with another film with a reputation that precedes it following Love's unusually graphic poster campaign. When a young filmmaker and his lover invite an attractive neighbour to join them in a romantic tryst, it has an effect on their relationship they weren't prepared for. Love is heralded as the most ambitious work yet from the director of Irreversible and Enter the Void.
Sat 21 November, 11.00pm @ Hyde Park Picture House |
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The UK Jewish Film Festival's final Leeds screenings takes place at Seven Arts this week with The Bentwich Syndrome, about the life of an eccentric great-grandfather and What's in a Name?, a huge Box Office hit in France where an estate agent selects a controversial name for his son's baptism.
Thu 19 November, 7.30pm & Sun 22 November, 7.30pm @ Seven Arts
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Leeds Palestine Film Festival: Two Blue Lines
Shot over a hugely insightful 32 year period, documentary Two Blue Lines examines the human and political situation of Palestinian people from the years prior to the creation of Israel to the present day. Filmmaker Tom Hayes chooses to focus on the narratives of Israelis whose positions run counter to their country’s official policy.
Mon 23 November, 6.30pm @ Beckett Studio, Leeds Beckett University
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