London Film Festival 2015

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21 Nights With Pattie 21 Nights With Pattie
21 Nights With Pattie and Brand: A Second Coming
21 Nights With Pattie (Vingt et une nuits avec Pattie, 21 nuits avec pattie) (Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu; Writer: Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu; Stars: Karin Viard, Sergi López, Denis Lavant, Isabelle Carré, André Dussollier, Philippe Rebbot, Laurent Poitrenaux, Mathilde Monnier)
After her mother has died, Caroline befriends a woman who was looking after her mother, but events take a mysterious turn.
Brand: A Second Coming (Country: UK, US; Year: 2015; Director: Ondi Timoner; Writer: Ondi Timoner; Stars: Simon Amstell, Andrew Antonio, Barbara Brand, Ron Brand, Russell Brand, Shepard Fairey, Noel Gallagher, David Lynch, Stephen Merchant, Matt Morgan, John Noel, James Ohene-Djan, Noreen Oliver, Jeremy Paxman, Katy Perry)
Documentary about comic Russell Brand.
The Brand New Testament (Le tout nouveau testament) (Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg; Year: 2015; Director: Jaco van Dormael; Writer: Thomas Gunzig, Jaco Van Dormael; Stars: Benoît Poelvoorde, Yolande Moreau, Catherine Deneuve)
The new adventures of God, who lives in Brussels with his teenage daughter and falls foul of her hacking skills.
Burn Burn Burn (Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Chanya Button; Writer: Charlie Covell; Stars: Joe Dempsie, Laura Carmichael, Chloe Pirrie, Eleanor Matsuura, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Hannah Arterton, Alison Steadman, Sally Phillips, Jane Asher, Alice Lowe, Melanie Walters, Jack Farthing, Nigel Planer, Matthew Kelly, Susan Wokoma)
Two young women are sent on a beyond-the-grave mission by their dead friend to scatter his ashes at five British locations.
Cronies (Year: 2015; Director: Michael Larnell; Writer: Michael Larnell; Stars: George Sample III, Zurich Buckner, Brian Kowalski, Landra Taylor, Samiyah Womack, Elinor Nelson, Homer Simmons, Michael Larnell, Darrick Clark, Brooke Wade, Bradley Allen, Ryan Jordan, Michael Harvey, Chastity Jones, Sieglinda Fox)
Old friendship is tested by a day out with a new buddy.
Men And Chicken Men And Chicken
Men And Chicken and Grandma
From A to B (Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Julia Dogra-Brazell)
A brief moment of life flies past, filmed in flickers in front of Andy Warhol’s Empire State Building.
The Garbage Helicopter (Sophelikoptern) (Country: Sweden; Year: 2015; Director: Jonas Selberg Augustsén; Writer: Jonas Selberg Augustsén; Stars: Christopher Burjanski, Daniel Szoppe, Jessica Szoppe, Singoalla Millon, Josef Balok, Angelina Dimiter-Taikon, Mikael Andrén, Kerstin Nyman, Harriet Wikström, Rafael Szoppe, Adam Huuva, Anton Raukola, Lotta Lindvall, Bernt Granberg, Berthel Wiklund)
Surreal road trip through Sweden.
Grandma (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Paul Weitz; Writer: Paul Weitz; Stars: Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner, Marcia Gay Harden, Judy Greer, Laverne Cox, Elizabeth Peña, Nat Wolff, Sarah Burns, John Cho, Sam Elliott, Mo Aboul-Zelof, Colleen Camp, Skya Chanadet, Frank Collison, Meg Crosbie)
A woman tries to help her granddaughter raise funds for an abortion.
Latin Lover (Country: Italy; Year: 2015; Director: Cristina Comencini; Writer: Giulia Calenda, Cristina Comencini; Stars: Toni Bertorelli, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Angela Finocchiaro, Claudio Gioè, Lluís Homar, Virna Lisi, Neri Marcorè, Nadeah Miranda, Jordi Mollà, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Francesco Scianna, Pihla Viitala)
The five daughters of a famous actor, all from different mothers and different countriese, get together on the 10th anniversary of his death.
Live From New York (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Bao Nguyen; Stars: Dan Aykroyd, Alec Baldwin, James Belushi, Candice Bergen, Tom Broecker, Dana Carvey, Chevy Chase, Billy Crystal, Jane Curtin, Pete Davidson, Jimmy Fallon, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Al Franken, John Goodman)
Insider guide to 40years of Saturday Night Live.
The Brand New Testament The Brand New Testament
The Brand New Testament and Our Man In Havana
Men And Chicken (Mænd & høns) (Country: Denmark, Germany; Year: 2015; Director: Anders Thomas Jensen; Writer: Anders Thomas Jensen; Stars: David Dencik, Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Søren Malling, Nicolas Bro, Stine Engberg Andersen, Rikke Louise Andersson, Ulla Asbjørn-Damsted, Thor Bisbjerg, Valdemar Bemmann Bredning, Lisbet Dahl, Johnny Didriksen, Matti Ehlers, Daniel Engstrup, Jens Fitzau)
Black comedy about a pair of brothers who discover a dark family secret.
Our Man In Havana (Country: UK; Year: 1959; Director: Carol Reed; Writer: Graham Greene; Stars: Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noel Coward, Ralph Richardson, Jo Morrow, Grégoire Aslan, Paul Rogers, Raymond Huntley, Ferdy Mayne, Maurice Denham, Joseph P. Mawra, Duncan Macrae, Gerik Schjelderup)
An expatriate vacuum cleaner salesman is recruited as a Secret Service operative in Cuba.
A Perfect Day (El Pozo) (Country: Spain; Year: 2015; Director: Fernando León de Aranoa; Writer: Fernando León de Aranoa, based on the book by Paula Farias; Stars: Olga Kurylenko, Benicio Del Toro, Tim Robbins, Mélanie Thierry, Fedja Stukan)
Ruben Guthrie (Country: Australia; Year: 2015; Director: Brendan Cowell; Writer: Brendan Cowell; Stars: Patrick Brammall, Alex Dimitriades, Abbey Lee, Harriet Dyer, Yvonne Cowell, Jeremy Sims, Aaron Bertram, Michael Lahoud, Brenton Thwaites, Robyn Nevin, Jack Thompson, Kasia Stelmach, Catherine Kennar, Blazey Best, Elly Oh)
To win back his fiancée, a cocky, fast-living advertising executive resolves to give up alcohol for one year – but an entire drinking culture has other ideas.
Ryuzo and His Seven Henchmen (Ryûzô to 7 nin no kobun tachi) (Country: Japan; Year: 2015; Director: Takeshi Kitano; Writer: Takeshi Kitano; Stars: Tatsuya Fuji, Ben Hiura, Kôjun Itô, Masanobu Katsumura, Takeshi Kitano, Masaomi Kondô, Hisako Manda, Akira Nakao, Akira Onodera, Fumika Shimizu, Atomu Shimojô, Tôru Shinagawa, Ken Yasuda, Ken Yoshizawa, Ryota Nakanishi)
A gaggle of elderly retired Yakuza attempt to relive their gory glory days by taking down the young gang who swindled one of their group.
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