The Hottest actors from Freida Pinto to George Clooney are to feature in this years London film festival which takes place between 12th-27th October 2011.
The 16 day event next month will also see Rebecca Hall and Ralph Fiennes on the red carpet.
The 55th London film festival will show more than 200 movies including 13 world and more than 130 British Premieres excluding Q&A's with the stars, producers, writers and directors.
MarkMeets was first in the queue when the LFF announced this year's predictably diverse roster. Here are our personal picks from the capital's annual cinema jamboree
This morning, the Odeon Leicester Square played host to the press launch for the 55th BFI London Film Festival, the biggest event in the capital’s moviegoing calendar. As usual, the festival filters the best international films from a summer’s worth of global film showcases for two weeks of screenings, talks, events and workshops.Unlike previous years, where key artistic or political trends have been easy to spot, it’s hard to define much of a pattern in this year’s LFF programme: the films range across every corner of the globe, covering hundreds of topics in every conceivable cinematic style.
As always, the big names are to be found in the Gala and Films on the Square strands, where Anthony Hopkins, star of opening film ‘360’, rubs shoulders with George Clooney, director of American Express Gala ‘The Ides of March’ and star of Centrepiece Gala ‘The Descendants’, and where fun Hollywood fluff like Roland Emmerich’s Elizabethan conspiracy thriller ‘Anonymous’ plays alongside the poetic realism of the Dardennes Brothers’s latest, ‘The Kid With a Bike’.
As always, the Time Out Gala Screening promises to be one of the highlights of the festival. Lynne Ramsay’s long-awaited adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s harrowing high-school massacre novel, ‘We Need To Talk about Kevin’, has wowed festival audiences worldwide, with particular attention being paid to Tilda Swinton’s phenomenal lead performance. Join us at the Curzon Mayfair on Oct 17 for the British premiere.
It’s hard to pick favourites from the programme, but in the Films on the Square strand alone there are a number of films Time Out staff have already seen and loved, including the riveting Sundance smash ‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’, Mexican gangland thriller ‘Miss Bala’, Roman Polanski’s wallpaper-shredding theatrical drama ‘Carnage’ and Andrea Arnold’s poetic, lyrical take on ‘Wuthering Heights’.
Further down the programme, the New British Cinema selection looks particularly intriguing, with debut features from actor Dexter Fletcher (‘Wild Bill’) and Alexandra McGuinness (‘Lotus Eaters’), a new experimental direction for Richard Jobson with ‘The Somnambulists’ and, as usual, a new doc about a great British musician, this time the former Felt frontman in ‘Lawrence of Belgravia’.
The French Revolutions and Cinema Europa strands are equally diverse and impressive, ranging from Matthieu Kassovitz’s return to the confrontational style of ‘La Haine’ with ‘Rebellion’ to eagerly anticipated Swedish political doc ‘The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975’, and from legendary director Chantal Akerman’s Joseph Conrad deconstruction ‘Almayer’s Folly’ to family-friendly animation with ‘A Cat in Paris’.
And matters get even more unpredictable in the World Cinema strand: here we find furious Indian rap stars (‘Asshole’) alongside ageing California skateboarders (‘Dragonslayer’), Tibetan pet thieves (‘Old Dog’) next to Canadian vigilantes (‘Superheroes’) while Chow Yun Fat and his wisecracking Chinese gangsters (‘Let the Bullets Fly’) mix with Ken Kesey and his psychedelic band of Merry Pranksters (‘Magic Trip’).
The London Film Festival runs October 12-27, and as always, MarkMeets’s own band of merry pranksters will be on hand to guide you through, offering first reviews of as many films as we can lay our hands on. Watch this space for our in-depth coverage, due to begin next week. For now we leave you with details of the most anticipated premieres!
Wednesday 12th October 2011 - London Film Festival Opening Premiere of '360'. - At the Odeon, Leicester Square.
Friday 14th October 2011 - London Film Festival Premiere of 'Shame'. - At the Vue, Leicester Square.
Sunday 16th October 2011 - London Film Festival Movie Premiere of 'Tales of the Night'. - At the Vue, Leicester Square.
Sunday 16th October 2011 - London Film Festival Movie Premiere of 'Coriolanus'. - At the Odeon West End, Leicester Square.
Monday 17th October 2011 - London Film Festival Movie Premiere of 'We Need to Talk About Kevin'. - At the Curzon Mayfair.
Tuesday 18th October 2011 - London Film Festival Movie Premiere of 'The Artist'. - At the Odeon West End, Leicester Square.
Wednesday 19th October 2011 - London Film Festival Movie Premiere of 'The Ides of March'. - At the Odeon, Leicester Square.
Thursday 20th October 2011 - London Film Festival Movie Premiere of 'The Descendants'. - At the Odeon, Leicester Square.
Thursday 20th October 2011 - London Film Festival Movie Premiere of 'The First Born'. - At the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.
Friday 21st October 2011 - London Film Festival Movie Premiere of 'The Kid with a Bike'. - At the Vue, Leicester Square.
Saturday 22th October 2011 - London Film Festival Movie Premiere of 'Trishna'. - At the Vue, Leicester Square.
Sunday 23th October 2011 - London Film Festival Movie Premiere of 'W.E.'. - At the Empire, Leicester Square.
Monday 24th October 2011 - London Film Festival Movie Premiere of 'A Dangerous Method'. - At the Odeon West End, Leicester Square.
Tuesday 25th October 2011 - London Film Festival Movie LFF Premiere of 'Anonymous'. - At the Empire, Leicester Square.
Tuesday 25th October 2011 - London Film Festival Movie LFF Premiere of 'We Have a Pope'. - At the NFT, London.
Thursday 27th October 2011 - London Film Festival Movie LFF Closing Premiere of 'The Deep Blue Sea'. - At the Odeon, Leicester Square.
George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes and David Cronenberg will parade the red carpet of the British Film Institute's (BFI) 55th London Film Festival, which is set to showcase a varied line up of big titles and emerging talent
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