The Men Who Stare at Goats premiere

Welcome back to the London film festival - now, happily, playing out like Groundhog Day. The opening gala played host to foxes, and this one brings on the goats. And look, here's George Clooney again, rolling up for his second LFF premiere in the space of 24 hours Photograph: Ian Gavan/Getty Images

Clooney is the star of no fewer than three pictures at this year's festival: Fantastic Mr Fox, The Men Who Stare at Goats and Up in the Air Photograph: Ferdaus Shamim/WireImage.com

The Men Who Stare at Goats is a military farce based on an investigative book by this man: the erstwhile Guardian columnist Jon Ronson Photograph: Daniel Deme/EPA

It is directed by this man: Grant Heslov. No stranger to staring, then Photograph: Samir Hussein/Getty Images

These are the fresh faces, but here is another familiar one. Didn't John Hurt also attend the premiere of Fantastic Mr Fox? Does he perhaps sleep in his clothes in a vault nearby, only to emerge at the sounds of the next night's premiere? Photograph: Dave Hogan/Getty Images

But let us move on and look to the new. Here are Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory. It is, so far as we know, their first appearance at a 2009 London film festival premiere Photograph: Daniel Deme/EPA

Also blowing in the winds of change is Scream queen Neve Campbell Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters

And no premiere worth its salt would be complete without an appearance from Jimmy Choo founder Tamara Mellon Photograph: Ian Gavan/Getty Images

And hey, here's Clooney again. This time he's abandoned the red carpet to hang loose with Goats co-star Kevin Spacey Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Do we have time for a press conference? Happily we do. Jon Ronson, Kevin Spacey, George Clooney and Grant Heslov give it some eyeball action. Just out of shot: a big stack of ailing goats Photograph: Ian Gavan/Getty Images