{"id":2719,"date":"2011-09-07T13:17:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T13:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=2719"},"modified":"2011-09-07T13:18:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T13:18:52","slug":"titles-set-for-16-days-of-movies-at-london-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=2719","title":{"rendered":"Titles set for 16 days of movies at London Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The BFI London Film Festival announced the full schedule for its 55th edition to run Oct. 12-27 with a total of 204 fiction and documentary features, including 13 World Premieres, 18 International Premieres and 22 European Premieres.<\/p>\n

There also will be screenings of 110 live action and animated shorts. Directors, cast members and crew will be on hand to talk about many of the films, the BFI said, and some \u00a0will take part in career interviews, master classes, and other special events.<\/p>\n

Tickets go for the festival go on sale Sept. 26 and there will be tickets available on the day. Here is the festival’s announcement:<\/p>\n

GALAS & SPECIAL SCREENINGS: To join the previously announced opening and closing films, two Gala presentations will feature George Clooney – the political thriller THE IDES OF MARCH which he directs and stars in alongside Ryan Gosling, Evan Rachel Wood, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Paul Giamatti, and THE DESCENDANTS, Alexander Payne\u2019s latest feature. Among several literary adaptations are Lynne Ramsay\u2019s WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN with Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly and Ezra Miller; TRISHNA, Michael Winterbottom\u2019s reworking of Thomas Hardy\u2019s Tess of the D\u2019Urbervilles, with Freida Pinto and Riz Ahmed; and CORIOLANUS with Ralph Fiennes directing as well as taking the lead role alongside Gerard Butler and Vanessa Redgrave.\u00a0 Redgrave is also cast in Roland Emmerich\u2019s ANONYMOUS with Rhys Ifans, Joely Richardson and David Thewlis.\u00a0 Madonna directs romantic drama W.E. which stars Abbie Cornish, Andrea Riseborough and James D\u2019Arcy whilst Steve McQueen\u2019s second feature SHAME has a cast that includes Carey Mulligan and Michael Fassbender. Fassbender can also be seen alongside Viggo Mortensen and Keira Knightley in David Cronenberg\u2019s A DANGEROUS METHOD. Foreign language cinema is represented by THE KID WITH A BIKE, the Cannes Grand Prix winner from the Dardenne brothers; Nanni Moretti\u2019s WE HAVE A POPE; and Michel Ocelot\u2019s enchanting animation TALES OF THE NIGHT. Michel Hazanavicius\u2019 THE ARTIST celebrates Hollywood\u2019s silent era,while this year\u2019s Archive Gala is the BFI National Archive\u2019s restoration of Miles Mander\u2019s THE FIRST BORN with a new score by Stephen Horne.<\/p>\n

FILM ON THE SQUARE:\u00a0The selection includes work from renowned directors such as Roman Polanski (CARNAGE), Gus Van Sant (RESTLESS), Werner Herzog (INTO THE ABYSS: A TALE OF DEATH, A TALE OF LIFE), Todd Solondz (DARK HORSE), Jonathan Demme (I\u2019M CAROLYN PARKER) and Jonas Mekas (SLEEPLESS NIGHTS STORIES).\u00a0 Star power is provided by Jack Black in Richard Linklater\u2019s BERNIE; Sean Penn in Paolo Sorrentino\u2019s THIS MUST BE THE PLACE; Joseph Gordon-Levitt\u00a0 teams with Seth Rogen in Jonathan Levine\u2019s 50\/50, whilst Woody Harrelson stars in Oren Moverman\u2019s RAMPART, developed from a screenplay by James Ellroy.\u00a0\u00a0 British films include Andrea Arnold\u2019s bold retelling of WUTHERING HEIGHTS, Marc\u00a0 Evans\u2019 HUNKY DORY, a celebration of pre-punk 70s pop culture, and Nick Broomfield\u2019s SARAH PALIN \u2013 YOU BETCHA!\u00a0 International cinema takes centre stage in the West End with a powerful selection of premieres including Norway\u2019s Joachim Trier\u2019s stunning OSLO, AUGUST 31st;\u00a0 Bruno Dumont\u2019s provocative HORS SATAN;\u00a0 and Cannes Grand Prix winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan\u2019s audacious ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA.\u00a0 Mexico\u2019s Gerardo Naranjo delivers a thrilling action film with MISS BALA, whist divided family life in Japan is the focus of Hirokazu Kore-eda\u2019s engaging I WISH, and Australia\u2019s most infamous serial murder case inspires Justin Kurzel\u2019s first feature SNOWTOWN. Other feature debuts include Dee Rees\u2019s emotionally powerful PARIAH; Sean Durkin\u2019s beautifully disturbing MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE and Nick Murphy\u2019s 1920s set supernatural tale THE AWAKENING.<\/p>\n

NEW BRITISH CINEMA:\u00a0Original cinematic voices from across the UK who make their debuts this year include D.R. Hood with the haunting WRECKERS starring Claire Foy and Benedict Cumberbatch, and Tinge Krishnan with the social drama JUNKHEARTS in which Eddie Marsan heads a cast which includes Tom Sturridge and Romola Garai.\u00a0 London is the setting for Dexter Fletcher\u2019s drama WILD BILL, starring Charlie Creed-Miles; and Andrew Haigh\u2019s second feature, WEEKEND, is an original and affecting romance. Nirpal Bhogal\u2019s fresh young cast enliven urban drama SKET, and LOTUS EATERS finds director Alexandra McGuinness introducing us to the city\u2019s indulgent, affluent youth. Frances Lea\u2019s STRAWBERRY FIELDS provides an escape to the country with a story of lust, rivalry and liberation. A strong selection of British work include films which imaginatively blur the boundaries between documentary and drama such as Richard Jobson\u2019s response to the Iraq war, THE SOMNAMBULISTS,\u00a0 Simon Pummell\u2019s SHOCK HEAD SOUL and DREAMS OF A LIFE by Carol Morley.\u00a0 Paul Kelly\u2019s portrait of cult hero, LAWRENCE OF BELGRAVIA and Daniel Edelsyn\u2019s HOW TO RE-ESTABLISH A VODKA EMPIRE round out the documentary selection.<\/p>\n

FRENCH REVOLUTIONS:\u00a0The focus on French cinema brings a wide range of new and established filmmakers including Dominik Moll, with THE MONK starring Vincent Cassel and Geraldine Chaplin. Chaplin also appears with Salma Hayek in AMERICANO, the feature debut of actor Mathieu Demy. From the directorial team of Nicolas Klotz and Elisabeth Perceval, LOW LIFE is a study of the trials facing French youth that has universal resonance whilst Laurent Achard provides a macabre touch in LAST SCREENING and popular comedian Emmanuel Mouret brings wry comedy to THE ART OF LOVE.\u00a0 Among several French directors that will return to the Festival are Mathieu Amalric with a modern adaptation of Corneille\u2019s classic play, THE SCREEN ILLUSION, Jean-Marc Moutout examining executive culture in EARLY ONE MORNING and Mathieu Kassovitz directing himself in the provocative military drama, REBELLION.<\/p>\n

CINEMA EUROPA:\u00a0A diverse selection of filmmakers bring Europe into focus with films from countries including Belgium, Bulgaria, Ireland, Sweden, Austria, Romania, Poland, Slovakia, The Czech Republic, Denmark, The Netherlands, Russia and Iceland, as well as Italy, Spain and Germany. Highlights include Benito Zambrano\u2019s post-Spanish Civil War drama THE SLEEPING VOICE; Iceland\u2019s R\u00fanar R\u00fanarsson\u2019s VOLCANO; Angelina Nikonova\u2019s TWILIGHT PORTRAIT, a study in Russian institutional corruption, Andrea Molaioli\u2019s Italian conspiratorial drama THE JEWEL , Ulrich K\u00f6hler\u2019s SLEEPING SICKNESS and the World Premiere of Hans Weingartner\u2019s HUT IN THE WOODS. There are a number of outstanding directorial debuts which include Jonathan Cenzual Burley\u2019s absurdist road movie, THE SOUL OF FLIES; Andrea Segre\u2019s LI AND THE POET and Marie Kreutzer\u2019s THE FATHERLESS.\u00a0 From Germany, the unique DREILEBEN project brings together Christian Petzold, Dominik Graf and Christoph Hochh\u00e4usler with three very different features that share an incidental starting point. Documentary features include Andrey Paounov\u2019s THE BOY WHO WAS A KING and WHORES\u2019 GLORY from Michael Glawogger, who will be one of the four Austrian filmmakers with work in the Festival who will be participating in a special panel discussion on the current state of Austrian cinema.<\/p>\n

WORLD CINEMA:\u00a0Highlights from the US include NATURAL SELECTION, the brilliant debut from Robbie Pickering that swept the board at this year\u2019s SXSW Film Festival awards; Ken Kesey and The Merry Band of Pranksters\u2019 trek across America is revisited in MAGIC TRIP from directors Alison Ellwood and Alex Gibney; whilst a journey of a different kind features in Braden King\u2019s HERE, part road-movie, part love-story and part investigation of cinema itself. Tristan Patterson\u2019s skateboarding documentary DRAGONSLAYER\u00a0 and\u00a0 Michael Barnett\u2019s hugely entertaining SUPERHEROES about real life crimefighters offer fascinating glimpses of American life.\u00a0 Latin American cinema is well represented with HARD LABOUR, a blistering dissection of the class structure of Brazilian society from directors Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra; KAREN CRIES ON THE BUS, the debut feature from Colombia\u2019s Gabriel Rojas Vera;\u00a0 Laura Citarella\u2019s OSTENDE and Santiago Mitre\u2019s THE STUDENT, both from Argentina.\u00a0\u00a0 The notable rise of ethnically Tibetan filmmaking is evidenced in Pema Tseden\u2019s OLD DOG and Sonthar Gyal\u2019s THE SUN-BEATEN PATH whilst other East Asian highlights include Hong Sangsoo\u2019s THE DAY HE ARRIVES and Kim Kyung-Mook\u2019s STATELESS THINGS, both from South Korea; Jiang Wen\u2019s LET THE BULLETS FLY, China\u2019s highest-grossing film; Ann Hui\u2019s A SIMPLE LIFE, and Yuya Ishii\u2019s MITSUKO DELIVERS. Indian cinema is represented this year by titles including Salim Ahamed\u2019s ABU, SON OF ADAM, a rare and poignant tale of Muslim community life in Kerala; Gurvinder Singh\u2019s ALMS OF THE BLIND HORSE\u00a0 and Kaushik Mukherjee\u2019s cult film in the making ASSHOLE.<\/p>\n

EXPERIMENTA:\u00a0Highlights include TWO YEARS AT SEA, the new work from Jarman Prize nominee and Rotterdam Tiger Award winner Ben Rivers; CORRESPONDENCE: JONAS MEKAS \u2013 JL GUER\u00cdN, a series of five cinematic letters presented in Spanish and English; and FREE RADICALS: A HISTORY OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM from Pip Chodorov. Lewis Klahr returns to the Festival with THE PETTIFOGGER and other featured filmmakers include Phil Solomon, Chick Strand, Gabriel Abrantes, Robert Fenz and Nathaniel Dorsky. Altered States is a selection of shorts from filmmakers including Ben Russell, Neil Beloufa, Mary Helena Clark and Deborah Stratman.<\/p>\n

TREASURES FROM THE ARCHIVE:\u00a0Titles include a digital restoration of George Sidney\u2019s exuberant, good-natured satire on rock\u2019n\u2019roll BYE BYE BIRDIE with Janet Leigh; Humphrey Bogart stars in Edward Dmytrik\u2019s epic THE CAINE MUTINY; Elia Kazan\u2019s Oscar-winning AMERICA, AMERICA and Marcel Carn\u00e9\u2019s timeless masterpiece, LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS.\u00a0 The latest restoration by Martin Scorsese\u2019s World Cinema Foundation, LAW OF THE BORDER will also feature alongside the little seen Roberto Rossellini film, THE MACHINE THAT KILLS BAD PEOPLE. One of two colour features from the prolific Japanese master Kenji Mizoguchi, SHIN-HEIKE MONOGATARI, will play in the section along with WE CAN\u2019T GO HOME AGAIN by Nicholas Ray, a film which anticipated experiments by Jean Luc Godard, Mike Figgis et al.\u00a0 And from close to home comes WONDERFUL LONDON programme, restored by the BFI National Archive, in which directors Harry B. Parkinson and Frank Miller capture some of the most evocative images of the capital in the mid-1920s.<\/p>\n

SHORT CUTS AND ANIMATION:\u00a0Animation from around the globe is covered including a dedicated collection aimed at the younger audience, Animated Shorts for Younger Audiences, which include FUNNY ALPHABET and PICKELS IN A PICKLE.\u00a0 Exciting new filmmakers from the capital are showcased in London Calling, experiences of modern urban living are the focus of The Suburbs, and LONG DISTANCE INFORMATION and HOLD ON ME feature in The School of Life, a series dealing with issues such as family duty and conscience.\u00a0 Talent spotters will be able to see established names including Nicholas Hoult, Michael Fassbender and Luke Treadaway, along with new shorts from director Terry Gilliam and comedian Matthew Holness.<\/p>\n

EVENTS:\u00a0To accompany the screenings, the festival will present an extensive programme of public events featuring panel discussions, on-stage interviews and master classes. There also will be a number of free events.\u00a0 This year\u2019s Screen Talks, presented in partnership with American Express, feature directors Michael Winterbottom and Alexander Payne.\u00a0 The Masterclasses, presented in partnership with Swarovski, feature celebrated writer Abi Morgan, writer-director Miranda July, award-winning composer Alexandre Desplat and cinematographer Barry Ackroyd.\u00a0 Other highlights include an in-depth look at the making of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN with key members of the cast and crew, one of three free to access events presented in collaboration with Time Out.<\/p>\n

AWARDS:\u00a0The BFI London Film Festival Awards recognise creative excellence from both new and established filmmaking talent.\u00a0 Taking place on Oct. 26 at LSO St Luke\u2019s, awards presented include: Best Film, The Grierson Award for Best Documentary, The Sutherland Award for most imaginative and original first feature in the festival, Best British Newcomer Award and the BFI Fellowship.\u00a0 This year\u2019s jurors and full awards shortlists will be announced on Oct. 4 \u2013 full details will be available at bfi.org.uk\/lff.<\/p>\n

FILM GUESTS:\u00a0Other guests will include Alexander Payne, Andrea Arnold, Azazel Jacobs, Ben Rivers, Braden King, Bruno Dumont, Carol Morley, David Cronenberg, Dexter Fletcher, Elisabeth Olsen, Fernando Meirelles, Freida Pinto, George Clooney, Hans Weingartner, Harry Belafonte, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Joe Swanberg, Jonas Mekas, Jonathan Demme,\u00a0 Lynne Ramsay, Marina Goldovskaya, Michael Fassbender, Michael Shannon, Michael Winterbottom, Miranda July, Nanni Moretti, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Phil Solomon, Ralph Fiennes, Roland Emmerich, Sean Durkin, Shailene Woodley, Terence Davies and Yorgos Lanthimos.<\/p>\n

Here’s more about the 55th BFI London Film Festival<\/a>, presented in partnership with American Express.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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