The festival will come to a close with a screening of Michael Radford’s caper thriller Flawless, starring Demi Moore, Michael Caine, Joss Ackland, and Lambert Wilson in a tale about an attempted “perfect robbery” at the world’s largest diamond corporation.
In addition to this year’s London Film Festival, David Cronenberg’s thriller Eastern Promises, starring Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, and Vincent Cassel, will also open the 55th San Sebastian Film Festival, which will be held from Sept. Gangster Viggo Mortensen: San Sebastian Film Festival Times BFI 51st London Film Festival website. Shirtless and tattooed Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises photo: Focus Features. The full schedule of the 2007 London Film Festival will be announced on Sept. 26.Ĭulture Clash Movies Top Socially Conscious European Film Awards 14, while Pathé will release the film in the U.K. “ Eastern Promises is the first film I’ve ever shot entirely away from my home in Canada, and it makes perfect sense that it is set in London, home of so many of my most potent film influences.”Ĭronenberg began directing films in the mid-’60s, but he became an international name only in the early ’80s, following the release of bizarre psychological horror thrillers such as The Brood (1979), starring Samantha Eggar and Oliver Reed the head-exploding Scanners (1981), with Jennifer O’Neill and Stephen Lack and Videodrome (1982), with James Woods.įocus Features will release Eastern Promises in the U.S.
“I’m thrilled to be returning to the scene of the crime,” David Cronenberg is quoted as saying in the Times of London. ‘Eastern Promises’: David Cronenberg’s first film shot entirely outside Canada Ugly dirty things happen after his encounter with a midwife ( Naomi Watts) who has accidentally uncovered a prostitution ring.Īlso in the Eastern Promises cast are Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Sinéad Cusack, and Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski (whose quirky, dark Deep End is one of the best films of the 1970s). Written by Steven Knight (Oscar nominated for the Stephen Frears-directed thriller Dirty Pretty Things), Eastern Promises reunites David Cronenberg with his A History of Violence leading man, Viggo Mortensen, playing a ruthless member of one of London’s Russian mafia families. (A far cry from The Lord of the Rings’ Aragorn: Viggo Mortensen shirtless, tattooed, and deadly in Eastern Promises image.) David Cronenberg’ London-set thriller Eastern Promises will open this year’s Times BFI 51st London Film Festival on Wednesday, Oct.
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