class=”alignleft size-full wp-image-42216″ title=”54th BFI London Film Festival Logo” src=”https://www.heyuguys.com/images/2010/09/BFI-Logo-220.jpg” alt=”” width=”220″ height=”150″ />As previously reported Danny Boyle was honoured last night with the BFI Fellowship on the eve of the London Film Festival’s close, with his latest 127 Hours set to play to eager crowds at the Closing Gala screening tonight.
Boyle was handed the award by Stephen Daldry, and as part of the Festival awards Martin Scorsese celebrated the 75th anniversary of the BFI National Archive, whose work in restoring Herbert Ponting’s epic silent film The Great White Silence was a festival highlight.
How I Ended This Summer by Alexei Popogrebsky won the Best Film award while the Grierson award for Best Documentary went to Janus Metz for Armadillo.
The big winner of the festival however was director of The Arbor, Clio Barnard, who won the award for Best British Newcomer, as well as winning the Sutherland award for Best British Film Debut. The Arbor is undoubtedly a brave take on a troubled cycle of self-hatred, domestic dispassion and moral lethargy and much has been made of the lip-syncing technique employed by the cast to bring this story to the screen. It should find a wide audience after the two awards tonight and it’ll be extremely interesting to see which direction Barnard goes in next.
