This year’s London Film Festival has seen plenty of high-profile international filmmakers and actors descend on the capital in the last 16 days, including the world premier of Fantastic Mr. Fox with George Clooney and Bill Murray. In fact, the Festival has showcased over 193 feature films and 113 short films from 46 countries, including 15 world premieres.

Of course, t5m were there to celebrate the closing night, and managed to catch up with the cast of the film, including director Sam Taylor-Wood, Kristen Scott Thomas, David Morrissey and Aaron Johnson, as well as the BFI’s Art Director, Sandra Hebron.

And don’t forget to check out t5m’s reviews of the festival - including The Men Who Stare at Goats, Fantastic Mr. Fox and Bright Star.

This year a record number of people came to the screenings, exceeding last year’s figure of 113,000. The Festival opened with Disney’s new film Enchanted, and closed with Wes Anderson’s Darjeeling Ltd, starring Adrien Brody, Jazon Schwartzman and Owen Wilson.

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‘India was really great; we really had a chance to bond, and be on this adventure together, and I think it was because of how magical a place India is, and how welcome we were’.

Adrien played father-to-be Peter Whitman, one of three brothers on a pretty madcap train journey through India, in search of enlightenment, among other things. ‘It’s rare that the actor’s journey, or my journey as a person, is as exciting as the character’s journey. It was genuinely exciting, both on-screen and off’.

We can look forward to two more exciting films from the Pianist actor; co-starring with Penelope Cruz in Manolete and then Rachel Weisz in The Brothers Bloom has got to get his heart racing a bit!

Enchanted is a brilliant film that both celebrates and sends up the classic Disney trademarks. Previously unknown actress Amy Adams plays the fairy-tale princess Gisele to James’ textbook Prince. ‘It’s a modern day fairy-tale but it’s a very clever concept. It’s an homage to the classic movies but with a modern twist’.

The film features ‘tremendous’ music from Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz, who had previously worked on earlier Disney movies like The Little Mermaid and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. There are also appearances from actors from previous Disney films. ‘It’s very rich in that sort of content’.

Coming up next for James is the release of his latest movie, romantic comedy 27 Dresses. He plays a cynical New York guy opposite ‘serial-bridesmaid’ Katherine Heigl. Katherine’s in the cast of Grey’s Anatomy, as is Patrick Dempsey who plays lawyer Robert in Enchanted.

‘I only work with actors and actresses from Grey’s Anatomy, apparently!’

The director both celebrates and sends up the traditional Disney trademarks. ‘If you’re going to homage Disney, you have to go back to all those great moments and put them in the movie! It plays on so many levels.’

The film pokes fun at traditional Disney characterisation, and what happens to these characters in a modern day, real life setting. And it doesn’t get any more real life than New York City!

There are the classic Disney motifs that run through the film, your obvious poison apples, witches and princesses, But the Disney references go far deeper into the plot and setting of the film.

The law firm in the movie is named after the three songwriters from the original Snow White; Churchill, Harline and Smith. It’s like Where’s Wally for Disney! As Kevin says, ‘it’s packed, from beginning to end’.

The exceptionally dapper Jason talked us through the writing and filming process of the new Wes Anderson film, which he starred in alongside Adrien Brody and Owen Wilson as the three Whitman brothers. Jason co-wrote the film with Wes and Roman Coppola.

‘My character is like a perfect combination of myself, Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola, as is Owen’s character and Adrien’s character. I think the three of us, the three writers are very equally represented amongst the three brothers in the film. But there’s a lot of my character that is me. I’m not going to tell you what because that’s way too embarassing.’

It’s intriguing to guess which strange quirks in Jason’s character Jack are fictional and which are actually ‘him’. Jack bizarrely neglects to wear shoes the entire movie; which must have been pretty treacherous on location in rural India.

‘I did fine! I didn’t break any skin or break any bones. My feet became really dirty though, they became leathery. They actually became shoes. My feet became shoes! They became like a penny loafer or something’.

It’s safe to say that a fair few of those ‘quirks’ are pure Schwartzman.

Coming up next for Jason is a new movie called The Marc Pease Experience with Ben Stiller. ‘It’s a movie about acapella singing groups’. Jason plays a former high school music star called Marc Pease, who is still stuck in the past eight years down the line.

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Wes was at the London Film Festival with his new film Darjeeling Limited, starring Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman and Owen Wilson as the Whitman brothers.

‘I had been very interested in India for several years, I was interested in India because of movies, the Satyajit Ray films and a movie called The River that I had seen, that really turned me on to India. Then when I went there, I fell in love with it’.

Satyajit Ray’s films are ‘almost always’ about people going through fundamental changes and personal transitions, which is a theme in Witman’s own films. Darjeeling Limited is very closely informed by the style of Ray’s beautiful films Charulata and Teen Kanya.

Wes wrote the film with Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman, who plays Jack Whitman. He’s known for working on every aspect of his films, from writing to production to the music. He told us that he started small, making short films.

‘I think it’s a good time to be making short films, you know, there’s a place to show them now, on the Internet. That was how I got started making movies, making shorts’.

Next on the agenda is an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox, starring George Clooney. He’ll be here filming with Wes in London for two years. There are no words to describe how excited we are about this.

‘I like a chat, really, and I tend to be too open, and therefore put my foot in it quite a lot, as we all know! So, I mean I enjoy the process of having a conversation, but not necessarily about myself. It depends on the journalist!’

In the film Sienna plays Katya, a B-movie actress, who is interviewed by political journalist Pierre, played by Steve Buscemi. Their interview becomes very personal, and they end up unwittingly trading dark secrets, blackmailing and double bluffing one another.

The film focuses exclusively on the two characters over the course of one interview, in one night. The interview descends into an intense trade-off of lies and confessions; but Sienna plays down some of the more passionate scenes in the film. ‘What do you mean get it on? We don’t!’

Sienna herself has a tumultuous relationship with the press. She told us that she thinks journalists often twist the truth. ‘I think it’s nice to be respectful and to tell the truth, and I think there’s a lot of misleading that goes on’.

But you’ve got to take the rough with the smooth, and despite the papparazzi, Sienna’s happiest in London. She told us she’s glad to be filming at home, and excited about the future of British film. ‘There are some incredible film makers, and it’s hard to have an industry here at the moment. But I’m really excited, I’ve done two British films this year. It’s always been fantastic’.

‘Hopefully I can honour him by making the strongest film that I could make of my own, that was the idea. We were inspired by the original but we set out to make our own film’.

The controversial Dutch director was murdered in 2004. It is reported that he always wanted his films to be remade in Hollywood. Steve Buscemi has fulfilled that desire, and he and Sienna really capture the intensity of the original.

Steve plays Pierre, a frustrated political reporter and serious journalist who is forced by his editor to interview a B-movie actress, Katya, played by Sienna.

The film revolves solely around the two characters as they become entwined in a psychological battle resulting in confession, betrayal and some steamy kisses!

Steve insisted to us that he was unfazed by the kissing scenes. ‘I cast her because she’s an extremely talented actress, and I couldn’t be more pleased with her performance’.

Steve Buscemi puts in a powerful performance himself, nothing less than we would expect from one of Hollywood’s most talented character actors.

We spoke to Sienna herself at the London Film Festival, where she was similarly bashful about the love scenes. ‘No! There’s none of that, no’. She also told us how much she was looking forward to shooting at home in London for her next films.