Toronto Film Festival

Woo-Hoo…..Thankfully, September is just about here  and that  signals  the start of awards season. We may see  some of the players  at Toronto. But remember, Just because it smells and looks  like Oscar, doesn’t mean it will BE Oscar, secondly,  we’re all  critics…especially  bigmouth bloggers who want to be first (no one from this site -HA,) and most importantly, too much hype in Toronto, positive or negative, can kill a movie with only a few few months left in the season.

Here’s the  list of gala presentations:

Caroline Link’s A Year Ago in Winter; starring Karoline Herfurth, Josef Bierbichler, Corinna Harfouch, Hanns Zischler and MiÃ… ¡el Maticevic
Toa Fraser’s Dean Spanley, starring Peter O’Toole, Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill and Bryan Brown. To watch the beautiful, animated  opening sequence  click here.  
Jodie Markell’s The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Evans, Ellen Burstyn, Mamie Gummer, Ann-Margret and Will Patton
Neil Burger’s The Lucky Ones, starring Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins and Michael Peà ±a
Rod Lurie’s Nothing But the Truth, starring Kate Beckinsale, Vera Farmiga, Alan Alda, David Schwimmer, Noah Wyle and Angela Bassett
Gavin O’Connor’s Pride and Glory, starring Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight, Noah Emmerich and Jennifer Ehle
Jerry Zaks’s Who Do You Love, starring Alessandro Nivola
Anees Bazmee’s Singh is Kinng, starring Akshay Kumar
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen’s Burn After Reading, starring George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Richard Jenkins, and Brad Pitt.

non-gala films are –

Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married
Paul Schrader’s Adam Resurrected
Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s Uncertainty (these guys have made some great films already)
Atom Egoyan’s Adoration
Ed Harris’ Appaloosa
Wong Kar-wai’s Ashes in the Time of Redux
Guillermo Arriaga’s Burning Plain
Steven Soderbergh’s Che
Michael Winterbottom’s Genova
Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky
Kathryn Bigelow’s Hurt Locker
Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles
Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna
Larry Charles’ Religulous
Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire
Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche
Darren Aronofsky’s Wrestler
Kevin Smith’s Zach and Miri Make a Porno
Davis Guggenheim’s It Might Get Loud