MOSTLY FILM: Luna Landscape
Spank's LFF Diary, Wednesday 08/10/2014

London Film Festival 2014

November 11th, 1989: that's exactly when it all started for me. The day when I saw my first ever film at the London Film Festival. For the record, it was Joao Cesar Monteiro's Recollections Of The Yellow House. Who would have thought at the time that a quarter of a century later, I could type a few words into a computer and watch the whole thing instantly? (Answer: Douglas Adams, that's who.)

But that 'quarter of a century' is the most important part of that previous paragraph: I've been seeing films at the LFF for 25 years now. It seemed like the sort of anniversary that needed something big to mark it, and the good people at Mostly Film have given me the opportunity to do just that. So over there you can now read A History Of The LFF In 26 Objects, a personal history of the 25 festivals I've been to so far, leading into the one that starts this very evening (assuming you're reading this on October 8th).

As ever, when I write a piece for Europe's Best Website, I like to provide additional bonus background material for it on my own site. So above, you can find a playlist of the LFF trailers that played before festival screenings, from various times over the last couple of decades. In order, they cover the years 1993-1995, 2003-2005, 2006-2008, 2009, 2010 (more of a bumper, really, although that year we also saw a more traditional web-only trailer), 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. It's fascinating to see how the marketing of the event has changed over the years, and regular LFF attendees should get a kick out of watching some of these again.

What's that? You're saying that's not enough bonus material for you? What more could you want?

Well, okay, then. Let's say that the bonus material for the Mostly Film article will consist of all of my reviews for the 2014 London Film Festival (plus the occasional contribution from the odd Pal or two), which will appear on here daily over the next twelve days. I usually start my festival coverage with some sort of rambly preamble, looking back at previous festivals and forward to the current one - I've just put it on a different site this year.

This is my 26th festival: you should know how it all works by now. If not, you can always look here (or here, here and here if you'd like to help a brother out financially). Those links, between them, should tell you everything you need to know about my first 25 LFFs. As for the 26th... well, watch this space.

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