London International Film Festival Announces Full LIneup

The lineup of films that will be presented as part of the London International Film Festival have been announced. The even will run October 12-27.

The Festival will open with 360, loosely based on Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde, starring Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, and Anthony Hopkins; and Deep Blue Sea, Terence Davies’ film version of Terrence Rattigan’s play, which also stars Weisz.

Other movies that will receive Gala and Special Screenings are The Ides of March, George Clooney’s film adaptation of Beau Willimon’s Farragut North, which follows a young press spokesman who falls prey to backroom politics, and stars Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood, Roland Emmerich’s Anonymous, about the true authorship of Shakespeare’s plays; Coriolanus, based on Shakespeare’s play, starring and directed by Ralph Fiennes; A Dangerous Method, David Cronenberg’s adaptation of Christopher Hampton’s play about the relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud; Steve McQueen’s Shame, which focuses on a New York man’s sexual compulsion, and stars Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan; and W.E., about the relationships between the Duke of WIndsor and Wallis Simpson and an American woman and a Russian security guard, co-written and directed by Madonna and starring Abbie Cornish and Oscar isaac.

The Festival’s Film On The Square section includes Roman Polanski’s Carnage, an adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s play God of Carnage, Mark Evans’ Hunky Dory, that unfolds in the pre-punk 1970s and stars Minnie Driver and Haydn Gwynne, and Drake Doremus’ Like Crazy, which stars Felicity Jones,

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