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Since an allocation of ten wouldnt have been enough, five was excruciatingly insufficient. The highlight of my year was probably the London Film Festivals Archive Gala screening of Arthur Robisons The Informer a meticulous BFI restoration of one of the best British films made at the end of the silent era, with a truly superb live performance of an unusually audacious, subtle, detailed and evocative new score for sextet by virtuoso violist and composer Garth Knox. Both cinematically and musically, it was a marvellous evening. Sadly, however, the years most memorable event was the shocking, perhaps wholly avoidable death of Abbas Kiarostami, for me and many others the greatest artist working in film over the last few decades. What a terrible loss to cinema. Corrina Antrobus. Programmer Bechdel Test Fest, UKMoonlight. Barry Jenkins. Mustang. Deniz Gamze Ergven. American Honey. Andrea Arnold. Certain Women. Kelly Reichardt. The Handmaiden. Park Chan wook. Its been a bleak year. 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