London Film Festival and me

So, here’s the list of every film I’ve seen at the London Film Festival since 1993. With the 2016 Festival completed, I have seen 421 films.

Only once I have managed the holy trinity of the opening night and closing night galas and the surprise film (in 1999). However, I have seen the surprise (highlighted in bold) eight times.

1993:
The Accompanist
The Wrong Trousers
The Tin Line, The Cross and The Curve
Short Cuts
Twenty Bucks
Silent Tongue

1995:
Dangerous Minds
Smoke
Dead Presidents
In The Bleak Mid-Winter
Clockers

1996:
American Buffalo
Bound
She’s The One
Sleepers
Crimetime
The Long Kiss Goodnight

1997:
Afterglow
Mojo
Mimic
Affliction
Regeneration
Metroland
Shooting Stars
The Winner
The James Gang
Stiff Upper Lips

1998:
The Mighty
B Monkey
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Victory
Playing God
Rounders
Final Cut
Gods & Monsters
The Opposite Of Sex
Two Girls And A guy

1999:
Opening night: Ride With The Devil
The Bridge
Girl On The Bridge
Happy Texas
Summer Of Sam
Legend Of 1900
The Insider
Onegin
The Criminal
Tube Tales
The Straight Story
Hurlyburly
Simpatico
Closing night: American Beauty

2000:
Shadow Of The Vampire
Sade
Animal Factory
Requiem For A Dream
The Big Kahuna
Prime Gig
The Yards
The Dish
Way Of The Gun
American Nightmare
Verbal Assault
Cecil B Demented
About Adam
Small Time Crooks
Beautiful Creatures
Trixie
Weight Of Water
The Exorcist: The Director’s Cut

2001:
The Piano Teacher
The Cat’s Meow
The Pornographer
Pollock
Last Orders
And Your Mother Too
Bank
Dark Blue World
Lakeboat
Bandits
Mulholland Drive
The Warrior
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Apocalypse Now Redux
Sex And Lucia
IVANSXTC
Birthday Girl

2002:
Opening night: Dirty Pretty Things
Leo
Every Stewardess Goes To Heaven
The Quiet American
The Magdalene Sisters
Bowling For Columbine
Antwone Fisher
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Four Feathers
My Mother’s Smile
The Kid Stays in The Picture
Full Frontal
The Pianist
8 Mile
The Dancer Upstairs
Lundi Matin
Punch Drunk Love
The Other Side Of The Bed
Far From Heaven
Welcome To Collinwood

2003:
Opening night: In The Cut
Seabiscuit
The Human Stain
Touching The Void
Strayed
Lost In Translation
Girl With A Pearl Earring
I’m Not Scared
21 Grams
The Shape Of Things
A Mighty Wind
School Of Rock
Perfect Strangers
The Dreamers
It’s All About Love
Grand Theft Parsons

2004:
We Don’t Live Here Anymore
Garden State
Bad Santa
Osmosis
Tarnation
Hotel
Napoleon Dynamite
Stander
Maria Full Of Grace
2046
Paths Of Glory
The Woodsman
Sideways
Melinda And Melinda
DEBS
Closing night: I Heart Huckabees

2005:
Elizabethtown
Election
L’Enfer
The Matador
Separate Lies
Bubble
Burnt Out
Tapas
The Proposition
Les Revenants
Walk The Line
The King
Hidden
Mirrormask
Mrs Henderson Presents
Keane
Lower City
Closing night: Good Night, And Good Luck

2006:
The Singer
Born And Bred
The Missing Star
A Soap
Black Book
The Caiman
Little Children
Shortbus
As The Shadow
Bobby
Half Nelson
For Your Consideration
Fast Food Nation
Dr Strangelove
Buenos Aires 1977
Lola
Hollywoodland

2007:
Opening night: Eastern Promises
The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Lions For Lambs
I Always Wanted To Be A Gangster
Sicko
Things We Lost In The Fire
Into The Wild
Rescue Dawn
Grace Is Gone
Son Of Rambow
Talk To Me
Mataharis
Savage Grace
No Country For Old Men
Mister Lonely
I’m Not There
The Savages
Chaotic Anna
Far North
Juno
Reservation Road

2008:
Dean Spanley
The Other Man
Frost/Nixon
Religulous
The Class
A Perfect Day
A Christmas Tale
Warlords
Anvil! The Story Of Anvil
Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
Broken Lines
W
Frozen River
Waltz With Bashir
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Not Quite Hollywood
Genova
Hamlet 2
The Wrestler
Che Part 1
Gonzo
The Baader Meinhof Complex
The Brothers Bloom
Revanche
Che Part 2
Synecdoche, New York
Closing night: Slumdog Millionaire

2009:
The Men Who Stare At Goats
Cold Souls
Micmacs
The Double Hour
44-Inch Chest
Bellamy
Up In The Air
Balibo
London River
Kicks
Valhalla Rising
American: The Bill Hicks Story
Chloe
A Grand Day Out
Don’t Worry About Me
The Disappearance Of Alice Creed
Air Doll
The Traveller
Vincere
The Informant!
Regrets
Taking Woodstock
Lebanon
Giulia Doesn’t Date At Night

2010:
Carlos Parts One, Two & Three
Blue Valentine
Home By Christmas
Everything Must Go
The Ballad Of Mott The Hoople
Cold Weather
The American
Womb
The King’s Speech
Submarine
Sensation
Lemmy
Deep In The Woods
Black Swan
How I Ended This Summer
Puzzle
The Kids Are All Right
Copacabana
Biutiful

2011:
50/50
360
Rampart
Restless
The Loneliest Planet
Wreckers
Coriolanus
Dark Horse
Nobody Else But You
Snowtown
We Need To Talk About Kevin
Superheroes
Chicken With Plums
Terri
Let The Bullets Fly
The Descendants
The Ides Of March
Carnage
Bernie
Take Shelter
The Descendants
The Monk
Damsels In Distress
Uncle Kent
Silver Bullets
A Dangerous Method
Anonymous
The Awakening
This Must Be The Place

2012:
Blood
Spike Island
Robot And Frank
A Fish
For No Good Reason
Grassroots
End Of Watch
Room 237
Beware Of Mr Baker
Rust And Bone
In The House
I, Anna
Dead Europe
A Liar's Autobiography
Everybody Has A Plan
Argo
Hyde Park On Hudson
Compliance
The Late Great Graham Chapman
Jeffrey Dahmer
Seven Psychopaths
Song For Marion
Lawrence Of Arabia
Sightseers
Celeste And Jesse Forever
Kiss Of The Damned

2013:
Adore
Doll & Em
Mystery Road
Nebraska
Gravity
The Congress
Jodorowsky's Dune
All Cheerleaders Die
The Double
Under The Skin
The Zero Theorem
11.6
Jeune et Jolie
All Is Lost
Labor Day
Night Moves
Philomena
Don Jon
Parkland
Inside Llewyn Davis
1
Weekend Of A Champion
12 Years A Slave
The Invisible Woman

2014:
The Imitation Game
Monsters: Dark Continent
Men, Women & Children
In Darkness We Fall
French Riviera
The Drop
The New Girlfriend
Queen And Country
The Mule
Rosewater
Zero Motivation
The Keeping Room
The Salvation
A Second Chance
Whiplash
Love Is Strange
Serena
The Green Prince
Son Of A Gun
The Face Of An Angel
The White-haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom
The Silent Storm
A Little Chaos

2015:
Grandma
21 Nights With Pattie
Trumbo
Land Of Mine
High-Rise
A Bigger Splash
The Program
Bone Tomahawk
Elstree 1976
My Nazi Legacy
Very Big Shot
Black Mass
11 Minutes
The Assassin
The Lobster
The Lady In The Van
Carol
Desierto
Youth
Steve McQueen & Le Mans
Victoria
Schneider vs Bax
Ruben Guthrie
Guilty
Truth
Remember

2016:
The Tower
La La Land
Frantz
Private Property
Manchester By The Sea
Mindhorn
Bleed For This
Scribe
Christine
Arrival
Elle
Lovesong
Goldstone
Fury Of A Patient Man
Planetarium
Porto
The Reunion
Their Finest
The Autopsy Of Jane Doe
Brimstone
The Ghoul
Nocturnal Animals
Don't Think Twice
Dog Eat Dog
Prevenge
Trespass Against Us
Free Fire