BFI London Film Festival Director Kristy Matheson reveals top 6 must-watch movie picks for 2023

The BFI London Film Festival is just around the corner and will see more than 160 brand new debut films, from first-time directors to Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. With so many films coming to our theaters, it’s impossible to know where to start, so we sat down with LFF director Kristy Matheson to give us her must-see list. These are the best movies to watch out for, according to experts…

All of us strangers

And finally, if you like Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal, you’ll love this one! Kristy explained: “All of Us Strangers… is beautiful. It’s quite a mysterious story and one of those movies that you don’t want to know too much about when you go to see it.

WATCH: Paul Mescal stars in All of Us Strangers trailer

“It’s about a man questioning his life; it’s a film about memory and ghosts, and it features some very interesting highways and byways. I also like the idea that people will walk out of the theater after watching this movie and then walk through the streets of a city that have just seen on the screen. I think it will be a very special screening for everyone.”

New boyfriend

Kristy’s top pick is the Cate Blanchett movie, The New Boy. She explained: “I’m so proud to have director Warwick Thornton’s new film, The New Boy, with Cate Blanchett giving a powerful performance. It’s set in the 1940s and Cate plays a nun who looks after a convent where young boys live are natives and the authorities left them without parents.

Great TV shows coming in fall 2023

Sex Education Season 4 Netflix – September 21

Still Up, Apple TV+ – September 22

Gen V, Amazon Prime Video – September 29

Loki Season 2, Disney+ – October 6

Chemistry Lessons, Apple TV+ – October 13

The Fall of the House of Usher, Netflix – October 12

All the Light We Cannot See, Netflix – November 2nd

The Buccaneers, Apple TV+ – November 8

“It’s a very interesting film about spiritual worlds colliding. Warwick is a great cinematographer, so it’s an incredibly beautiful film, and Nick Cave and Warren Ellis wrote the music. It’s a rich cinematic experience, but it also tells a very important story.”

Cate Blanchett plays a nun

Bonus track

Are you a fan of rom-coms? Then this is for you! Kristy said: “[Bonus Track] is a wonderful, really fun romcom. It stars Joe Anders, Samuel Small and Susan Wokoma, and is about finding your place in the world and finding someone who will understand you.”

Nyad

We smell like Oscar with this! Starring Jodie Foster and Annette Bening, and from the creators of Free Solo, this sounds seriously catchy. “It’s a really exciting movie [following a woman named Dianne Nyad, played by Annette Bening, who returns to open-water swimming in her 60s to take on the challenge of a record- breaking swim from Cuba to Florida]” Kristy said. “It’s from the people who made the Oscar-winning documentary called Free Solo and it keeps you on the edge of your seat. It’s a great human story and again, it’s really exciting to watch in the cinema.”

Restless dreams

For the documentary, Kristy suggested a Paul Simon special. “For documentaries, I recommend In Restless Dreams, which is about the musician Paul Simon,” she said. “It is a portrait of him as an artist and a wonderful document of a great career.”

The film will deal with the music of Paul Simons

Totem

“My choice of foreign film is Tótem, a wonderful Mexican film [about a young girl living with her ill father, with all the action set in their home]. This very unusual story asks, “How do you deal with grief, and how do you deal with life?” All performances are great. After watching it, I left the cinema very emotional, but also excited.”

Totem is a Mexican film

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