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London Film Festival
LFF Closing Gala: Nowhere Boy
Read our review of Sam Taylor-Wood's stunningly assured debut movie on the early life of John Lennon, which benefits from spirited turns from Kristin Scott Thomas, David Morrissey, Anne-Marie Duff and newcomer Aaron Johnson in the lead
Galas
The Boys Are Back
Clive Owen impresses as a grieving father of two in this latest from Australian director, Scott Hicks
The White Ribbon
Michael Haneke’s latest film is a two-and-a-half hour period parable of political ideas set entirely in a north German village
Fantastic Mr Fox
Wes Anderson's stop-motion Roald Dahl adaptation is a delight
Bright Star
Jane Campion’s drama about the relationship between John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and his neighbour Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish)
A Serious Man
The Coens are back and firing on all cylinders in this comic dissection of the modern Jewish male
An Education
Lone Scherfig's beautiful London-set tale of first love in the swinging sixties
The Road
John Hillcoat’s long awaited screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic Pulitzer Prize winner
Father of My Children
The French gala this year is the second film from Mia Hansen-Løve, a tender drama about family and filmmaking
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Journalist Jon Ronson’s caustic investigation into the US army’s adoption of New Age psychological techniques transposed to the big screen
A Prophet
French filmmaker Jacques Audiard's engrossing, terrifying prison drama
Toy Story 2
Presented in Disney Digital 3D as a precursor to next year's release of 'Toy Story 3'
Film on the Square
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Nutzoid retelling of Abel Ferrara's anguished cop yarn with Nic Cage at his batshit best
Bellamy
Chabrol works with Depardieu for the first time ever, and the results are stirring
Bunny and the Bull
Visually arresting, but utterly charmless Brit buddy road movie
La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
Wiseman's back stage doc on the famed Parisian ballet outfit
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
Delightful digressive miniature from the 100-year-old Manoel de Oliveria
Enter the Void
Gaspar Noé follows up 'Irreversible' with another woozy and violent head trip movie
The Informant!
Effortless corporate satire from the always interesting Stephen Soderbergh
Life During Wartime
Todd Solondz returns with a razor-sharp dismantling of modern mores in this wicked comedy
The Limits of Control
Follow a Zen hit man as he journeys across Spain in Jim Jarmusch's satisfyingly cryptic latest
The Milk of Sorrow
Emotionally potent Golden Bear winner from Peru
No One Knows About Persian Cats
The director of 'Half Moon' and 'Turtles Can Fly' inspects the underground music scene in his native Iran
Paper Heart
Kook-heavy mixture of documentary and fiction as a young woman searches for the meaning of love
Taking Woodstock
Ang Lee adds a laid-back ensemble comedy to his impressive back catalogue
Tales from the Golden Age
Palme d'Or winner Christian Mungiu heads up this tragicomic portmanteau about life in Ceausescu's Romania
The Time That Remains
Palestine's Elia Suleiman returns with another spry personal chronicle in the vein of his previous 'Divine Intervention'
Vincere
Marco Bellocchio returns with this artful biopic Ida Dalser, one of Mussolini's lovers
Valhalla Rising
The Viking movie gets an artsy overhaul by Nicholas Winding Refn
Best of the rest
London Film Festival news round-up
The latest news and views from the second week of the London Film Festival
Experimenta Weekend at the LFF
The second weekend of the LFF sees two days of experimental film work at BFI Southbank. Here's Time Out's preview of this year's selection
London Film Festival: news
Viggo, Bill and Gordon Brown: catch all the hot stories from this year's London Film Festival
Wes Anderson: interview
The director discusses his latest, a stop-motion retelling of Roald Dahl's much-loved 'Fantastic Mr Fox'.
London Film Festival: Critics picks
Before you max out the credit card on LFF tickets this year, take a look at our handy critics picks first...
Lourdes
Spiritualism, commercialism and jealousy clash in Jessica Hausner's deadpan drama
Morphia
Russia's premiere misanthrope Alexei Balabanov delivers a brilliant (and gory) period farce
Ander
Brokebasque Mountain anyone? Truthful, rustic romance from Spain's northern fringes
Dogtooth
Stunning Greek parable of inter-family power games which won the Un Certain Regard prize in Cannes
The Ape
What does a man do after killing is family? This nifty Swedish drama offers the answers
Around a Small Mountain
Rivette's latest is an elegiac, though wonderfully playful intellectual treat about performance and art
White Material
Clair Denis returns to war-ravaged Africa as Isabelle Huppert's coffee magnate just doesn't know when to hang up her glove
Persécution
Glum, talky Parisian drama with sulky turns from Romain Duris and Charlotte Gainsbourg
Like You Know It All
Delicious, serio-comic study of the modern South Korean male from director Hong Sang-Soo
Kinatay
Winner of the Best Director at the 2009 Cannes festival, Briliante Mendoza's latest is a brutal kidnap drama
Leave Her to Heaven
Wonderful all-stops-out melodrama with Gene Tierney, one of this year's Treasures of the Archive
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