{"id":6517,"date":"2009-09-09T23:31:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T22:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=6517"},"modified":"2009-09-09T23:35:45","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T22:35:45","slug":"lineup-for-london-film-festival-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/09\/09\/lineup-for-london-film-festival-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Lineup for London Film Festival 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n The official lineup for this year’s London Film Festival<\/a><\/strong> has been announced.<\/p>\n Featuring 191 features and 113 shorts from almost 50 countries, it takes place next month from 14th-29th October.<\/p>\n The big news angle is that George Clooney<\/a><\/strong> stars in three of the major films, including: the world premiere of Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox<\/strong> (as the voice of the title character); The Men Who Stare at Goats<\/strong> as a self-proclaimed “Jedi warrior” leading paranormal experiments for the U.S. military, and as a management consultant addicted to air travel in Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The festival’s artistic director Sandra Hebron said that Clooney provided the closest thing there is to a theme at the 53rd annual festival.<\/p>\n “There are three George Clooney films and four films with nuns in them. That’s about it”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n On a more serious note she said that if there was a trend to be gleaned from this year’s selection of films, it would be “the return of the auteur”, which was also what some commentators felt about Cannes this year.<\/p>\n Some of the biggest names in world cinema are in a lineup that includes Austrian director Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon<\/strong> which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes; the acclamed prison drama A Prophet<\/strong> from France’s Jacques Audiard; Jane Campion’s John Keats biopic Bright Star<\/strong>; Steven Soderbergh’s whistle-blower saga The Informant<\/strong>; Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock<\/strong>; Joel and Ethan Coen’s A Serious Man<\/strong>; and Lone Scherfig’s An Education<\/strong> the Nick Hornby-scripted adaptation of Lynn Barber’s memoir about coming of age in the 1960s.<\/p>\n Among the stars coming over to attend screenings are the aforementioned Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Julianne Moore and Emma Thompson.<\/p>\n For the first time, the festival will give out a best-picture award and\u00a0Amanda Nevill, director of festival organizer the BFI, said her goal was “to take the (London) film festival into the top tier.”<\/p>\n British films in the schedule include Lucy Bailey’s documentary Mugabe and the White African<\/strong>; Julien Temple’s documentary Oil City Confidential<\/strong>; and Sam Taylor-Wood’s biopic about the young John Lennon Nowhere Boy<\/strong>, which closes the festival.<\/p>\n Here are the lineups for the two major strands of the festival:<\/p>\n GALA & SPECIAL SCREENINGS<\/strong><\/p>\n [ad]<\/p>\n FILM ON THE SQUARE<\/strong><\/p>\n These are the other notable films from around the world that will be screening in cinemas in Leicester Square during the festival.<\/p>\n For a full list of films showing at the festival, including the New British Cinema<\/a>, French Revolutions<\/a>, Cinema Europa<\/a>, World Cinema<\/a>, Experimenta<\/a>, Treasures from the Archives<\/a> and Short Cuts and Animation<\/a> strands go to the official LFF website<\/a>.<\/p>\n > The Times report on this year\u2019s lineup<\/a> The lineup for the 2009 London Film Festival has been announced and includes three films featuring George Clooney, The White Ribbon, An Education and A Prophet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2],"tags":[1109],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\n> Official LFF website<\/a>
\n> Check out our LFF reports from last year<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"