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London Film Festival Sets Premieres And Rolling Stones For 56th Event

The lineup for the 56th BFI London Film Festival was unveiled Wednesday with 225 fiction and documentary features set for the event, including 14 World, 15 International and 34 European Premieres. The lineup also includes a gala for the world premiere of Crossfire Hurricane , a documentary celebrating 50 years of The Rolling Stones, who are expected to attend the event. As announced earlier, the European Premiere of Tim Burton’s 3-D animation Frankenweenie will open LFF on October 10th. The festival will close withMike Newell’s Great Expectations with Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes. Other gala highlights include Toronto titles such as Ben Affleck’s political thriller Argo , Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut Quartet as well as Roger Michell’s Hyde Park On Hudson , which will screen as the London Film Festival’s Centerpiece. And drama The Sessions is set, starring John Hawkes, Helen Hunt and William H. Macy. The London Film Festival’s 2012 Competition Slate: Official Competition European Premieres:  Michael Winterbottom’s   Everyday Sally Potter’s Ginger and Rosa Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths   UK Premieres Michel Franco’s After Lucia David Ayer’s End of Watch Rama  Burshtein’s Fill the Void Daniele Ciprì’s It Was the Son François Ozon’s In the House Cate Shortland’s Lore Pablo Larraín’s No Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone   First Feature Competition (recognizing an original and imaginative directorial debut):   3 European premieres Masaaki Akahori’s The Samurai that Night Anand Gandhi’s Ship of Theseus Barry Berk’s Sleeper’s Wake   9 UK premieres Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild Tom Shkolnik’s The Comedian Maja Miloš’ Clip Gabriela Pichler’s Eat Sleep Die Sally El Hosaini’s My Brother the Devil Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Neighbouring Sounds Scott Graham’s Shell Andrey Gryazev’s Tomorrow Haifaa Al Mansour’s Wadjda   Documentary Competition Categories :   4 World Premieres Charlie Paul’s For No Good Reason Nick Ryan’s The Summit Sarah Gavron’s Village at the End of the World Greg Olliver’s Turned Towards the Sun   1 International Premiere Sébastien Lifshitz’s Les Invisibles   4 European Premieres Jay Bulger’s Beware of Mr Baker Shola Lynch’s Free Angela and All Political Prisoners Alex Gibney’s Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God Amy Berg’s West of Memphis   3 UK Premieres Katja Gauriloff’s Canned Dreams Ken Burns, David McMahon and Sarah Burns’ The Central Park Five Ulises Rosell’s The Ethnographer   The nominees for “Best British Newcomer”: Rowan Athale – director/screenwriter Wasteland Sally El Hosaini – director/screenwriter My Brother the Devil Fady Elsayed – actor My Brother the Devil Scott Graham – director/screenwriter Shell Eloise Laurence – actor Broken Rufus Norris – director Broken Chloe Pirrie actor Shell Tom Shkolnik – director/screenwriter The Comedian

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London Film Festival Sets Premieres And Rolling Stones For 56th Event

The Steve Jobs Factor, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Happy Thursday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: James Bond’s 23rd may have a title… Octavia Spencer could deal for Diablo Cody… Javier Bardem may return to villainy (animation-style)… And the Nobel literature winner is… and more.

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The Steve Jobs Factor, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

REVIEW: Tepid But Harmless Dirty Girl Makes Special Plea for ’80s Teen Misfits

Every era has its misfits, people who feel out of step with their contemporaries and the world. As a plea for tolerance and understanding of oddballs, Dirty Girl , the debut feature from writer-director Abe Sylvia, hits every note so squarely on the beat that in the end, it’s nothing but square. It doesn’t matter that Sylvia has stocked the soundtrack with killer ’80s pop from the likes of Bow Wow Wow, Teena Marie and Joan Jett. The movie’s true poster girl is the drippy Melissa Manchester, urging us to sing from our souls, because she thinks we can make it.

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REVIEW: Tepid But Harmless Dirty Girl Makes Special Plea for ’80s Teen Misfits

Hollywood Ink: Has The Hunger Games Found Its Director?

Also in this morning’s Hollywood Ink: William H. Macy gets Freaky … Warner Bros. goes back in time for Al Capone… Sam Riley is a Dead Man … and more ahead.

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Hollywood Ink: Has The Hunger Games Found Its Director?

Weinsteins Drop Seven Figures on TIFF’s Dirty Girl

The second big deal of the Toronto Film Festival occurred today when the Weinstein Company acquired the road-trip flick Dirty Girl for a reported $3 million. Uh, wow. Abe Sylvia directed the ’80s-set film, starring Juno Temple as the title character who flees her high school (and possibly her bad reputation) with a gay classmate. Dwight Yoakam, Milla Jovovich and Willam H. Macy co-star; the purchase includes a theatrical-release guarantee, so save the shelf jokes for at least another six months if you don’t mind. [ Deadline ]

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Weinsteins Drop Seven Figures on TIFF’s Dirty Girl

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