With new releases from Ang Lee, David Cronenberg and Sean Penn, the London film festival has plenty to offer. Peter Bradshaw lists the top 10 movies to catch.
November 2006
From Robben Island to the red carpet
A new film about the apartheid era is winning accolades. But the inspirational story of its hero is even more astonishing, as Andrew Meldrum discovered at an orphanage in South Africa.
October 2006
A life of Anger
Infamous
Ghosts
Choruses of disapproval
Come into my gala
Slave to cinema
King opens 50th London film festival
Last King of Scotland opens LFF
'I like darkness'
The Last King Of Scotland
Tyrants and twits
Offensive and unfair, Borat's antics leave a nasty aftertaste
Erlan Idrissov
September 2006
'He becomes the character, certainly with Ali G and Borat. He has a mix of Sellers's acting and Rod Hull's bottle'
Profile: Sexist, anti-semitic and homophobic, Sacha Baron Cohen's new character Borat is set for stardom. By Kirsty Scott.
'I used to Google my name to see what came up - it hurt'
He was one of the original brat-packers whose films defined the 80s. Then Emilio Estevez's career dived and the tabloids attacked. As he returns with an Oscar-tipped movie about the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, he tells Geoffrey Macnab about the good times and the bad.
'I'm a control freak - but I was not in control'
Babel's British premiere at London Film Festival
London film festival announces jubilee lineup
August 2006
London film festival plays host to Idi Amin
The Last King of Scotland, a bizarre and brutal account of the reign of the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, will open the 50th London film festival on October 18.