London film festival 2009: Lineup unveiled

Two of this year's gala screenings at this year's London film festival had in fact been announced already. Wes Anderson's stop-motion version of the Roald Dahl story Fantastic Mr Fox gets its world premiere (here's Bill Murray on - or in - the set; George Clooney is Mr Fox) Photograph: PR

Closing the festival is Nowhere Boy, feature debut from artist Sam Taylor-Wood, about the growing pains of the young John Lennon. Aaron Johnston plays the will-be Beatle; Kirsten Scott Thomas is his aunt Mimi Photograph: PR

Much of the rest of the line-up is the best of other fests. Precious is Lee Daniels's tale of urban disaffection, which triumphed at Sundance in January Photograph: PR

Also at Sundance was An Education, Lone Scherfig's much-acclaimed take on the Lynn Barber memoir, adapted for the screen by Nick Hornby. Newcomer Carey Mulligan stars as a young girl torn between studying for her Oxford entrance exams and a mysterious older man, played by Peter Sarsgaard. Pictured are co-stars Rosamund Pike and Dominic Cooper Photograph: PR

Graduates of this year's Cannes film festival fill out much of the rest of the programme. Here's Jane Campion's romance Bright Star, about the romance between John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) Photograph: PR

Jacques Audiard's A Prophet won the Grand Jury prize at Cannes Photograph: PR

While Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon clinched the Palme d'Or Photograph: PR

Taking Woodstock, Ang Lee's nostalgia comedy, failed to wow the crowds on the Croisette Photograph: PR

Likewise Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void Photograph: PR

As did Claire Denis's White Material Photograph: PR

And John Hilcoat's adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel The Road Photograph: PR

And the George Clooney-starring The Men Who Stare at Goats Photograph: PR

Ditto Todd Solondz's Life During Wartime Photograph: PR

… Toy Story 3D … Photograph: PR

And Steven Soderbergh's The Informant! Photograph: PR

Atom Egoyan's Chloe, starring Julianne Moore and Liam Neeson, is scheduled to open at the Toronto film festival in a few days Photograph: PR

The Coen brothers' latest, A Serious Man, premieres at Toronto too Photograph: PR

Other must-see films include documentary Mugabe and the White African Photograph: PR

The Limits of Control, the latest from Jim Jarmusch Photograph: PR

And, just for those who can't get enough Clooney, the latest from Jason (Juno) Reitman, Up In the Air Photograph: PR