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 September 20-29. (Eastern Promises trailer.)
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.
Paul Auster's The Inner Life of Martin Frost, the story of a successful writer who is inspired by a mysterious woman (a vision? a ghost? flesh-and-blood mating material?) starring David Thewlis and Irène Jacob, has been added to the out-of-competition line-up of the festival's Official Selection. Auster will also chair the International Jury.
Another out-of-competition film is Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield's documentary Earth, which uses highlights from the Planet Earth TV series. The reformatted documentary is described as "a spectacular look at our planet from north to south through all seasons observing the behavior of the different animal species and the effect of climate change on their lives."
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