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.
Equally thrilling was Empire’s special LFF presentation: this year, we were delighted to host a screening of Molly Manning Walker’s How To Have Sex (pictured right), an outstanding British film that tackles themes of consent, friendship and self-discovery. Our Beth Webb spoke to Walker and her team on stage, and the atmosphere was electric. Make sure to seek the film out when it arrives in cinemas in November. But learn from my mistake — be careful when typing that title into Google.