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London Film Festival - The Hottest Tickets Still Available

The best films still on sale for the 55th BFI London Film Festival.

This week we brought you the essential sold-out films at this year's BFI London Film Festival, and today we showing you it's not too late to get involved.

With the glitzy event kicking off with the premiere of 360 in Leicester Square today (12th October), and a host of sold-out previews screening until 27th October, we now bring you the best films still on sale.

Book these gems before it's too late! Head over to www.bfi.org.uk/lff for times and ticket details.



Headhunters
This glossy Norwegian thriller manages to be both intelligent and ludicrous, but it's a blast from start to finish. Aksel Hennie is a superbly charismatic anti-hero as a recruitment consultant who compensates for his perceived physical inadequacies by moonlighting as a devious art thief. One particularly fortuitous scam leads him on a thrilling cat and mouse chase filled with morbid humour and shock twists. Tongue firmly in cheek, it's still a genuinely gripping and compelling ride.



Martha Marcy May Marlene
A slowburning psychological drama that will haunt you for days, it features the staggeringly impressive acting debut of Elizabeth Olsen, younger sister of creepy celebrity twins Mary-Kate and Ashley. Ms Olsen is set for a very different career path, riveting as the complex young woman adjusting to life after a cult, led by the predatory John Hawkes. Sean Durkin's haunting film is uneasy and disorienting, as Martha adjusts to the real world under a cloud of paranoia and flashbacks.



Natural Selection
Robbie Pickering's road trip has the black humour and warmth of Little Miss Sunshine, with equally brilliant characters. Rachael Harris is immensely likeable as a devout Christian housewife, who after two decades of sexless marriage, discovers her husband is actually a sperm donor. She sets out to find the young man her husband fathered, leading to a screwball comedy and unlikely buddy movie. Matt O'Leary is a revelatory riot as the dodgy ex-con who takes the naive woman for a ride in more ways than one. Funny, cringeworthy and very touching.



Snowtown
Justin Kurzel's unnerving true crime film is an account of the horrific Australian case of The Bodies in the Barrels. Daniel Henshall is far too convincing as mass murderer John Bunting, who manipulates a small town family with hateful rhetoric. Amazingly, he's the only professional actor, as Lucas Pittaway makes an impressive debut as the 16-year-old boy taken under a killer's wing. Kurzel's recreation is unflinching, but respectful, attempting to discover how easily fear and suspicion can tear a community apart. Brutal and unforgiving, it poses as many questions as it answers.



Take Shelter
A brooding, compelling film that would make a terrific, but paranoia-inducing double bill with the previously mentioned Martha Marcy May Marlene. The veritable powerhouse of raw talent that is Michael Shannon stars alongside another highly respected rising star, the ubiquitous Jessica Chastain. Shannon plays a blue collar family man in a small US town who, after terrifying visions and dreams, becomes convinced a devastating storm is coming their way. Jeff Nichols' slow-burner drips with unease, as Shannon is forced to face his psychological demons.