EMPIRE WELCOME
LONDON, FILMS AND festivals are all indisputably good things. So when the three are combined, in the form of the London Film Festival, it’s always a magical time. This year’s LFF was no exception, with my personal highlights including the hilarious The Holdovers, the truly wild Poor Things, and the floods-of-tears-inducing All Of Us Strangers. I was also lucky enough to get a seat at Martin Scorsese’s Screen Talk, in which the great man rapped with Edgar Wright about cinema for an all-too-short 90 minutes. Aged 80, he had more energy than the rest of the room put together, reeling off film titles faster than one could punch them into Letterboxd. Fun fact: Scorsese has only seen Titanic once.