Podcast: Widows, Ash Is Purest White and three more highlights of the 2018 London Film Festival

What does Steve McQueen’s new heist thriller Widows – Sight & Sound’s November 2018 cover film and gala opener of this year’s London Film Festival – tell us about race and class in contemporary America? 

Philip Concannon, Nick James, Isabel Stevens and Kelli Weston discuss this, Jia Zhang-ke’s crime drama Ash Is Purest White, and three more picks from this year’s festival: Sudabeh Mortezai’s Joy, Andrew Bujalski’s Support the Girls and Bi Gan’s Long Day’s Journey into Night.

Philip Concannon , Nick James , Kelli Weston

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