London Film Festival - British Cinema

13-10-2008 11:06

As well as looking at some of the most established filmmaker and actor the London Film Festival will also focus on some of the best new British talent.

Here is what to look out for.

Awaydays

On the Wirral in the grim early years of Margaret Thatcher’s premiership, the opportunities for thrill-seeking young men looking to escape 9 to 5 drudgery are what they’ve always been: sex, drugs, rock n’ roll, fashion, football and fighting.

Paul Carty (Nicky Bell) goes to the game, chases skirt, pores over records in the racks at Probe, and gets to see Echo and the Bunnymen, but his fraught family life and dull job leave him feeling bereft.

Becoming mates with the Berlin Bowie romantic Elvis (Liam Boyle), Carty is drawn to The Pack, a faction of football hooligans who own the terraces, a gang that Elvis is finding hard to distance himself from.

Endearing himself to The Pack’s General, John Godden (Stephen Graham), Carty throws himself into a world of boozy train journeys, Stanley knives and savage violence.-London Film Festival

Franklyn

A British science fiction movie written and directed by Gerald McMorrow, his first feature debut as director, bringing together Ryan Phillippe, Eva Green and Sam Riley.