London Film Festival planner

The bookings are in; they are listed first. Below them is the planner that got there: rank the films, set a budget and how many a day, and it finds the best complete schedule, not just the first fit. Ranking and settings are remembered in this browser.

Booked · the final schedule

■ Angadh's pick ■ bots' recommendation ■ Angadh's pick the bots would let go IMAX large format ★ book blind RT / MC = Rotten Tomatoes / Metacritic

1 · Rank and constrain

Most wanted at the top. 🔒 marks a non-negotiable: it is placed before anything else and the rest of the schedule bends around it. The planner never drops a higher-ranked film to fit lower ones, but it will move a higher one to a different screening if that lets more of the list in.

What I want to watch

    What I ought to prioritise instead, in some cases

    Films from strands you skipped (Cult, Debate, Archive, Journey) that are genuinely hard to see anywhere else and fit gaps in your default week. Planning from this column puts these first, then the rest of your wants in order. ↑ adopts one into the top of your own list.

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      2 · The week at a glance

      Each bar is a screening. Solid bars are the plan; hollow bars are the other screenings you could swap to. Hover a bar to see what it collides with. Films overlap when they are on the same day and less than 10 minutes apart.

      planned (🔒 non-negotiable, always kept) alternative screening work or teaching hours collides with a planned film two planned films collide

      3 · Films and screenings

      How the estimate works