Original title: Daniel Day-Lewis, Richard Linklater and Yorgos Lanthimos Set for Talks at BFI London Film Festival
Daniel Day-Lewis, Richard Linklater, Yorgos Lanthimos and Tessa Thompson are among the stars set to participate in the BFI London Film Festival‘s Screen Talks program this year. Celebrated filmmakers Jafar Panahi, Lynne Ramsay and Chloé Zhao will also join for sessions at the 2025 festival, opening Oct. 8 with Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Day-Lewis, the only person to win three best actor Oscars, is best known for his era-defining roles in such diverse films as My Beautiful Laundrette, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, My Left Foot, The Age of Innocence, There Will Be Blood, Lincoln and Phantom Thread. He is due to make his return to acting in the upcoming film Anemone, which also serves as his son Ronan’s directorial debut. Lanthimos’ work has established him as one of the most renowned directors of the 21st century. His frequent collaborators include Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone, who star in the recently premiered Venice feature Bugonia. Among his most famo