London Film Festival 2007 programme announced

From Netribution Contributed by Suchandrika Chakrabarti

Thursday, 13 September 2007

The 51st London Film Festival, which begins on 17th October, announced its lineup today. The festival will open with the UK premiere of David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises, starring Naomi Watts and Viggo Mortensen, and set amongst a notorious organised crime family in London. The closing night gala on 1st November will feature the UK premiere of Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited. The film follows three American brothers, played by Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman and Adrien Brody, on a trip across India. The festival will be hosting 7 World, 29 European and 128 UK premieres. The programme includes the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion winner Ang Lee with his controversial Lust, Caution, starring Tony Leung. Also being screened are François Ozon's Angel, Sean Penn's Into the WIld and Andrew Dominik's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, starring Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck. One of the most eagerly-awaited films isTodd Haynes' Bob Dylan biopic, I'm Not There featuring a variety of actors, such as Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Richard Gere and Cate Blanchett (she does a good job of looking like him), playing Dylan at different stages in his life. Audiences can also see work from debut feature directors including: Céline Sciamma (Water Lilies), Rodrigo Plá (Zona), Shivajee Chandrabhushan (Frozen) and Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud (Persepolis). British filmmaking talent is represented by Penny Woolcock (Exodus), Garth Jennings (Son of Rambow: A Home Movie), Nick Broomfield (Battle for Haditha), Asif Kapadia (Far North), Richard Attenborough (Closing the Ring) as well as by newcomers Simon Welsford (Jetsam) and Joanna Hogg (Unrelated), and a selection of documentaries and shorts. For the rest, see Netribution To contact the author: suchandrika@gmail.com