Capital Celluloid 2017 - Day 281: Wed Oct 11

Salesman (Albert & David Maysles, 1968): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 8.45pm


61st LONDON FILM FESTIVAL (4th-15th October 2017) DAY 7

Every day (from October 4th to October 15th) I will be selecting the London Film Festival choices you have a chance to get tickets for and the movies you are unlikely to see in London very soon unless you go to see them at the Festival. Here is the LFF's main website for the general information you need. Don't worry if some of the recommended films are sold out by the time you read this as there are always some tickets on offer which go on sale 30 minutes before each screening. Here is all the information you need about the best way to get tickets.

'Salesman' also screens on October 8th at Curzon Mayfair and October 14th at UCA Cinema. Details here.

Chicago Reader review:
Albert and David Maysles's documentary films are like no one else's, combining intelligence, an incredible sensitivity for character and nuance, and a technical facility that creates a subtle and compelling mood. This 1968 study of door-to-door Bible salesmen in the Boston area and in the south is a superb and truthful look at an American institution—and at the troubling relationship between fact and fiction, materialism and spiritual values. Beautifully edited by Charlotte Zwerin, this film is required viewing for anyone concerned with documentary.
Don Druker


Here (and above) is the trailer.

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