FInal Toronto List
A final and definitive list of the 349 films showing at this year's Toronto Film Festival was issued today, and the festival issued a press release highlighting the latest additions. I'll try and assemble a final list of films I need to see sum-up later today -- over 35? 40 or more? -- and see how many of these films I'm going to be forced to miss due to time constraints.
Some of today's new-addition standouts are Michael Moore's Captain Mike Across America (more on this later), Jonathan Demme's Man From Plains (about Jimmy Carter), Vadim Perlman's In Boom (specifics aren't coming to mid), Jason Reitman's Juno, Thomas McCarthy's The Visitor and Julian Schnabel's recently-shot documentary Lou Reed's Berlin.
Six new Gala's were added -- Renny Harlin's Cleaner with Samuel L. Jackson (about a guy who cleans up the residue of murders), Richard Attenborough's Closing the Ring, Robin Swicord's The Jane Austen Book Club (which I saw last night), Kenneth Branagh's Sleuth and Paul Schrader's The Walker.
New documentaries include Paul Crowder and Murray Lerner's Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who, Grant Gee's Joy Division, and Olga Konskaya and Andrea Nekrasov's Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on August 22, 2007 at 8:37 AM
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Bocephus
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"The Jane Austen Book Club"
I couldn't want to see this less.
Posted by Bocephus
at August 22, 2007 10:17 AM
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frankbooth
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Renny Harlin? Shouldn't he be in movie jail? Or rather, movie Guantanamo, a place where you vanish without record and are never heard from again?
And why does Sam Jackson do this stuff? When I try to imagine the projects he actually turns down, I get light-headed.
Posted by frankbooth
at August 22, 2007 12:24 PM
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James Leer
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"Jane Austen" is actually, dare I saw, pretty enjoyable. And Emily Blunt confirms her awesomeness in it.
Posted by James Leer
at August 22, 2007 12:35 PM
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Dan Revill
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Renny must have dirty pics of Jackson.
Posted by Dan Revill
at August 22, 2007 12:46 PM
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BurmaShave
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Yes, stills from DEEP BLUE SEA.
Posted by BurmaShave
at August 22, 2007 1:25 PM
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Larry
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Jonathan Demme's made a film about Jimmy Carter? People have been born and grown up since Demme made a good movie, but Carter's an interesting subject, full of flaws. If Demme can just steer away from hagiography, he might have something.
Posted by Larry
at August 22, 2007 1:52 PM
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le corbeau
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OT, except it's about a guy Jeff learned all about from a documentary:
Moved by claims that it will help the metabolism and productivity of his fellow citizens, President Hugo Chávez said clocks would be moved forward by half an hour at the start of 2008. He announced the change on his Sunday television program, accompanied by his highest-ranking science adviser, Héctor Navarro, the minister of science and technology. “This is about the metabolic effect, where the human brain is conditioned by sunlight,†Mr. Navarro said in comments reported by Venezuela’s official news agency.
Or, as Woody Allen put it in Bananas:
From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish. Silence! In addition to that, all citizens will be required to change their underwear every half-hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check. Furthermore, all children under 16 years old are now... 16 years old!
Posted by le corbeau
at August 22, 2007 2:32 PM
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adaml
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I had no idea Richard Attenborough had a new film coming out, not that I eagerly await them or anything.
Checking out his film on IMDb it has a 9.6 rating. How many times can Attenborough vote?!
Posted by adaml
at August 22, 2007 3:03 PM