London has Premieres. And I have a Camera.
Over the course of an average year. London probably has about 40-60 movie premieres. They're free to attend. You can bring a camera. And then wait for hours. And be pushed and shoved by fans, autograph dealers and teenage girls from Spain grasping desperately at Logan Lerman.
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BFI London Film Festival 2017 ends with Peter Dinklage, Woody Harrelson, Frances McDormand AND Sam Rockwell
Joaquin Phoenix might even have taken those sunglasses off at some point during the "We Were Never Really Here" premiere
Two premieres on Friday 13th - one for 'Downsizing' (no Matt Damon) and one for 'The Florida Project' (no Willem Dafoe)
Jamie Bell, Annette Benning, Elvis Costello and only getting drenched on the way home : Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool
Two premieres within 15mins - the first one here (and above), the second one here (with Bryan Cranston)
I very rarely take decent portraiture shots at events, but I was next to the Paps at the '2017 BFI Luminous' Gala...
"You want me to sign what?" - what indeed, at the World Premiere of 'Goodbye Christopher Robin"
Jennifer Lawrence and I share a moment (in the journal, not here on the homepage!) at the premiere of "Mother!"
Adam Driver doesn't really want to look at all the photos on your phone at the 'Logan Lucky' premiere
It's a guy so famous he played his own head head in an episode of Futurama, and he's at the 'An Inconvenient Sequel' premiere
OMG it's Harry Styles at a Christopher Nolan movie's world premiere (for Dunkirk)
Michael Bay both signed my Moleskine journal and broke my brain at the Transformers The Last Knight premiere!
You may call me disproportionately proud of my sub-par efforts (and rants) at the non-premiere of 'Beauty and the Beast (2017)'
If it's a big enough event (and the BAFTAs most assuredly are a big enough event), it gets a second journal - all monochrome, all widescreen, no distracting commentary and (often) a different set of photos. Emma Stone still gets the cover picture, though.
London wasn't deemed worthy of a full Doctor Strange premiere, so instead there was this near-abomination event.
Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander are plenty more attractive than you (or I) at 'The Light Between Oceans'
"Wassup, bro?" Mark Wahlberg was very Bro, (bro,) at the Deepwater Horizon premiere
The world needs more superhero movies. In this case, it's X-Men : Apocalypse that's needed.
Cap and Iron Man hug it out (possibly their mothers have the same first name?) at the Civil War European Premiere
FLASHBACK : in Berlin, Germany for the World Premiere of The Hunger Games : Mockingjay part2!
Scarlett Johansson probably didn't recognise me at The Avengers Age of Ultron European Premiere
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It's over for another year : BFI London Film Festival 2017 - this is the b'n'w only gallery of highlights and links
Nicole Kidman! Colin Farrell! Lens flares! Raffey Cassidy! (Emma Stone! Nicholas Hoult!) - The Killing of a Sacred Deer
It was an indoor venue in a corridor / stairwell, but it still counts, 'cause it's DAVID FINCHER!! (for Mindhunter)
"If you could work the name of this event's sponsor into your answer, that would be awesome" - at "Battle of the Sexes"
Carey Mulligan expresesess herself with rare and classy eloquence at the BFI LFF premiere for 'Mudbound'
Not one but FIVE Oscar winners at an action-comedy spy sequel Premiere, too : Kingsman - The Golden Circle.
Luke Skywalker prefers to go by the name 'Mark Hamill' when he's attending the 2017 GQ Awards...
Even I can't quite believe I stumbled across a premiere while on holiday in Riga, Latvia (!!) - Samurai Rauni at the Riga IFF.
Jennifer Tilly rushes through a doorway at at what Frightfest deems to be a "World Premiere". And I beg to differ.
I've finally photographed Oscar/Bafta-winning director Kathryn Bigelow (at the 'Detroit' Premiere)
It's Rihanna, and she's wearing the dress Rihanna wore at"Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets"
Ansel Elgort, Lily Driver, and lots of screaming from female fans at the Baby Driver European Premiere
Michael Fassbender and the cast of "Alien Covenant" along with a sickly green tint in every photo to make an artistic statement!!
A second premiere in Berlin - for Fast & Furious 8 (Are Berlin premieres the new normal? Probably not but I'll keep it in mind)
Tom Hiddleston drew the crowd to Kong : Skull Island, but Brie Larson is pretty... and I'm somewhat shallow.
It's the 2017 Baftas and I was dressed considerably warmer (albeit less stylishly) than Emma Stone
Lady Gaga's dress didn't look like it was made of bees or meat or live lizards at the 2016 British Fashion Awards
A small, non-tourists-screaming for Eddie Redmayne premiere for'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'? Not so much.
Amy Adams! A second time at this year's BFI London Film Festival - this time for Tom Ford's "Nocturnal Animals"
Cara Delevingne and I share a moment. Well... one of us does. (at the "Suicide Squad" European premiere)
It's Captain Kirk!. The "Star Trek Beyond" premiere was notable in that I actually got to watch the film at the event for once!
James Bond's 'SPECTRE' - the premiere so big I started writing the journal the day before when they were still setting it up!
FLASHBACK : Can book launch be a Premiere? I say yes - for the launch of 'The Wikileaks Files' in London
FLASHBACK : Scarlett Johansson and I share a private/public moment at the premiere of The Avengers
FLASHBACK : Daniel Craig looking supercool at the World Premiere of the James Bond movie "Skyfall"
Other Stuff
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