London - Latest Hanks films open, close festival
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This year’s London Film Festival is a Tom Hanks double bill with 232 other features in between.
The 12-day movie showcase opens on Wednesday with “Captain Phillips,” a drawn-from-life thriller starring Hanks as a cargo ship captain held captive by Somali pirates.
In the festival’s closer, “Saving Mr Banks,” Hanks plays a very different real-life figure — Walt Disney, sparring with British writer PL Travers over the movie adaptation of her children’s classic “Mary Poppins.” The film has its world premiere in London on October 20.
Artistic director Clare Stewart said the double dose of Hanks was “a happy accident.”
The 57th London Film Festival offers 234 features and 134 shorts, as well as a lineup of stars including Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Judi Dench, Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes and Daniel Radcliffe.
Founded in 1957 to show the best of world cinema to a British audience, the London Film Festival has recently tried to carve out a place on the international movie calendar with bigger pictures and more glittering stars.
“Captain Phillips” is one of several films in the lineup already generating awards-season buzz; others include Alfonso Cuaron’s space odyssey “Gravity,” Joel and Ethan Coen’s folk saga “Inside Llewyn Davis” and Steve McQueen’s powerful historical drama “12 Years A Slave.”
The festival will hand out prizes for best picture, best first feature, best documentary and best British newcomer at an October 19 ceremony.
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