{"id":15515,"date":"2013-09-07T18:59:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T17:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=15515"},"modified":"2013-09-07T19:42:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T18:42:48","slug":"london-film-festival-lineup-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2013\/09\/07\/london-film-festival-lineup-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"London Film Festival Lineup 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LFF<\/a><\/p>\n

The London Film Festival announced its 2013 lineup this week with its traditional blend of British premieres and acclaimed films from the festival circuit.<\/p>\n

Running this year from October 7th-20th<\/strong>, it opens with Captain Phillips<\/a>, which features Tom Hanks in the title role, and closes with Saving Mr Banks<\/a>, which again stars Hanks.<\/p>\n

One of the advantages of the festival is that it usually cherry picks the most buzzed about titles from the year\u2019s major festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes, Venice, Telluride and Toronto.<\/p>\n

This year the lineup looks especially strong with films by Greengrass, Alfonso Cuaron, The Coen Bros, Steve McQueen, Stephen Frears and Alexander Payne.<\/p>\n

Although most of the high profile films are showing in the gala section, since last year films have been presented in themed strands, including: Love<\/a>,\u00a0Debate<\/a>,\u00a0Dare<\/a>,\u00a0Laugh<\/a>,\u00a0Thrill<\/a>,\u00a0Cult<\/a>,\u00a0Journey<\/a>,\u00a0Sonic<\/a>,\u00a0Treasures<\/a>, and\u00a0Family<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are also competition strands: Official<\/a>, First Feature<\/a> and Documentary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are my picks, divided up into Must Sees, Worth Checking Out and Mildly Intrigued.<\/p>\n

ABSOLUTE MUST SEES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n