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London Film Festival

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Roman Polanski’s Palme d’Or winner, with Adrien Brody as a Jewish concert pianist escaping the Nazis in the Warsaw ghettos.

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Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid star in Todd Haynes' lush-looking tale of racism and homophobia in smalltown 50s America.

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Debut feature from director Peter Sollett. Young Victor pursues local beauty Judy, having been caught in bed with a fat girl. Oh, the shame of it.

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Director Lukas Moodysson's harrowing follow-up to last year's hippy comedy Together. Bleak and hopeless but beautifully paced.

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Boogie Nights director Paul Thomas Anderson's romantic comedy about nerd Adam Sandler, bullied by his seven sisters.

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Girls who want boys who like boys to be girls, with Dawson's Creek's James van der Beek. From the novel by Bret Easton Ellis.

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John Malkovich's Peru-set directorial debut sees Oscar nominee Javier Bardem tracking down a terrorist who hangs dogs from lampposts.

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Eminem makes his debut as a white rapper who makes it big in a black rapper's world. Ring any bells, anyone?

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Legendary Hollywood producer and former drug fiend Robert Evans narrates his rise and fall in this innovative documentary.

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Documentary charting the rise of Britpop, from the Stone Roses, via Jarvis and ending with Noel Gallagher becoming New Labour’s lapdog.

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Michael Moore’s shockingly funny documentary about gun ownership in the US, following the Columbine High School massacre in 1999.
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Director Peter Mullan pulls no punches, exposing the cruelty of the Catholic Magdalene Laundries which punished the "sins" of innocent girls.

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Audrey Tautou and Chiwatel Ejiofor play illegal immigrants caught up in human organs trafficking, in Stephen Frears’ London-set thriller.
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Fernando Meirelles visually explosive, true-life tale of organised crime in 70s Rio de Janeiro has become the surprise hit of the festival.
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The second feature from Rebecca Miller looks at three women at turning points in their lives. Won the Dramatic Competition at this year’s Sundance. more info

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Respiro
Emanuele Crialese retells a Sicilian legend about a mad woman who lives in a cave. Winner of the Critics Prize at Cannes.
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The Four Feathers
Shekhar Kapur’s follow up to Elizabeth sees Heath Ledger galloping round 19th-century Sudan, when he’s abandoned by his fiancée Kate Hudson.
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Anita & Me
British comedy drama set in the early 70s that sees 12-year-old Asian girl Meena trying to be like her "perfect" blonde neighbour, Anita.
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Laissez-Passer
Legendary director Bertrand Tavernier’s drama about a filmmaker, and his Jewish scriptwriter, working in France during the Nazi occupation.
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The Quiet American
Michael Caine plays a world-weary foreign correspondent in 50s Saigon, in Philip Noyce’s adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel.
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The Heart Of Me
British period drama set in 30s London sees Paul Bettany cheating on Olivia Williams, with Helena Bonham Carter. The fool.
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