TORONTO ANNOUNCES
Earlier today the Toronto International Film Festival began announcing their lineup for the fest which runs Sept. 6-16. Normally Toronto and Telluride have a significant overlap usually in the neighborhood of 16-17 titles. Of those 6-8 normally are in Toronto's Galas or Special Presentations and the rest can be found in other portions of the TIFF program.
So with that, here's the list of what Toronto announced this morning via Rope of Silicon:
GALAS
- A Royal Affair (dir. Nikolai Arcel) – Denmark/Sweden/Czech Republic/Germany
- Argo (dir. Ben Affleck) – USA
- The Company You Keep (dir. Robert Redford) – USA
- Dangerous Liaisons (dir. Hur Jin-ho) – China
- English Vinglish (dir. Gauri Shinde) – India
- Free Angela and All Political Prisoners (dir. Shola Lynch) – USA/France
- Great Expectations (dir. Mike Newell) – United Kingdom
- Hyde Park on Hudson (dir. Roger Michell) – United Kingdom
- Inescapable (dir. Ruba Nadda) – Canada
- Jayne Mansfield's Car (dir. Billy Bob Thornton) – USA/Russia
- Looper (dir. Rian Johnson) – USA [Opening Film]
- Love, Marilyn (dir. Liz Garbus) – USA
- Midnight's Children (dir. Deepa Mehta) – Canada/ United Kingdom
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist (dir. Mira Nair) – USA
- Silver Linings Playbook (dir. David O. Russell) – USA
- Thermae Romae (dir. Hideki Takeuchi) – Japan
- Twice Born (dir. Sergio Castellitto) – Italy/Spain/Croatia
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- A Few Hours of Spring (dir. Stephane Brize) – France
- Anna Karenina (dir. Joe Wright) – United Kingdom
- At Any Price (dir. Ramin Bahrani) – United Kingdom/USA
- The Attack (dir. Ziad Doueiri) – France
- Byzantium (dir. Neil Jordan) – United Kingdom
- Capital (dir. Costa-Gavras) – France
- Caught in the Web (dir. Chen Kaige) – Japan/China
- Cloud Atlas (dir. Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski) – USA
- The Deep (dir. Baltasar Kormakur) – Iceland/Norway
- Dormant Beauty (dir. Marco Bellocchio) – Italy/France
- Dreams for Sale (dir. Nishikawa Miwa) – Japan
- End Of Watch (dir. David Ayer) – USA
- Everybody Has A Plan (dir. Ana Piterbarg) – Argentina
- Foxfire (dir. Laurent Cantet) – France/Canada
- Frances Ha (dir. Noah Baumbach) – USA
- Ginger and Rosa (dir. Sally Potter) – United Kingdom
- Hannah Arendt (dir. Margarethe von Trotta) – Germany
- The Hunt (dir. Thomas Vinterberg) – Denmark
- The Iceman (dir. Ariel Vromen) – USA
- Imogene (dir. Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman) – USA
- The Impossible (dir. J.A. Bayona) – Spain/USA
- In the House (dir. Francois Ozon) – France
- Kon-Tiki (dir. Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg) – United Kingdom/Norway/Denmark
- The Last Supper (dir. Lu Chuan) – China
- A Late Quartet (dir. Yaron Zilberman) – USA
- A Liar's Autobiography – The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
Ben Timlett, Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson) – United Kingdom - Lore (dir. Cate Shortland) – Australia/United Kingdom/Germany
- Mr. Pip (dir. Andrew Adamson) – New Zealand
- Much Ado About Nothing Joss Whedon) – USA
- No (dir. Pablo Larrain) – Chile/USA
- Outrage Beyond (dir. Takeshi Kitano) – Japan
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower (dir. Stephen Chbosky) – USA
- The Place Beyond the Pines (dir. Derek Cianfrance) – USA
- Quartet (dir. Dustin Hoffman) – United Kingdom
- Reality (dir. Matteo Garrone) – Italy/France
- Rust and Bone (dir. Jacques Audiard) – France/Belgium
- The Sapphires (dir. Wayne Blair) – Australia
- The Sessions (dir. Ben Lewin) – USA
- Tai Chi 0 (dir. Stephen Fung) – China
- Thanks for Sharing (dir. Stuart Blumberg) – USA
- The Time Being (dir. Nenad Cicin-Sain) – USA
- To The Wonder (dir. Terrence Malick) – USA
- Venus and Serena (dir. Maiken Baird) – USA
- Writers (dir. Josh Boone) – USA
- Zaytoun (dir. Eran Riklis) – United Kingdom/Israel
So what to make of this? First, let's identify what "Ten Bets" (or near/have been "Ten Bets") that are on Toronto's list:
"Midnight's Children"
"Hyde Park on Hudson"
"Rust and Bone"
"No"
Other films that I have been noodling as Telluride possibles that showed up this morning on Toronto's list:
"Argo"
"The Silver Linings Playbook"
"Quartet"
"The Impossible"
"The Hunt"
"The Sapphires"
And then there are the films on the Toronto list that probably AREN'T going to be Telluride bound...but maybe, sort of could be OR I wish they would be:
"Cloud Atlas"
"The Place Beyond the Pines"
"Great Expectations"
"Much Ado About Nothing"
"To the Wonder"
"Anna Karenina"
"The Reluctant Fundamentalist"
"The Company You Keep"
"Reality"
"The Sessions"
And, as I mentioned above, this announced list isn't the complete Toronto lineup. They'll be adding as we go along.
Notable MIA's: "Amour", "Killing Them Softly", "Lincoln", "Django Unchained" and, of course, "The Master".
Here are a few links to various Toronto analysis pieces:
HitFix:
http://www.hitfix.com/awards-campaign/toronto-film-festival-selects-argo-anna-karenina-cloud-atlas-and-the-place-beyond-the-pines-for-2012
Ioncinema:
http://www.ioncinema.com/news/2012-tiff-to-open-with-looper-malick-cianfrance-bahrani-to-double-dip-in-venice-and-toronto?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Rope of Silicon:
http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/2012-toronto-international-film-festival-lineup/
Awards Daily:
http://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/2012/07/24/tiff-lineup/
MORE RELUCTANT NEWS
Venice should announce their lineup later this week and have announced that Mire Nair's "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" will open their fest. Included below are a few pieces that shed some light on that film:
The Hollywood Reporter:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/venice-film-festival-mira-nair-reluctant-fundamentalist-352828
The Playlist:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/venice-film-festival-mira-nair-reluctant-fundamentalist-352828
MASTER FANTASTIC?
Speculation via The Playlist that "the Master" will be in Austin, Texas for Fantastic Fest in late September...the "evidence" sounds pretty good:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/venice-film-festival-mira-nair-reluctant-fundamentalist-352828
I'll still hold onto the reed that it's 3 weeks after Telluride so we could still see it in Colorado.
More later...
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