Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones in Theory of Everything
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The Toronto film festival begins today; it runs 4-14 September 2014. (The NYFF is 26 September-12 October.)
Find the main lineup of films at Toronto this year HERE. Many of the fall and winter Oscar-worthy hits will be here. Earlier Catherine Shoard of the GUARDIAN commented that Toronto has "the edge on buzzy titles this year" over Telluride, which has been more and more competitive with it lately, or Venice, which comes a little before it. The NYFF comes just after Toronto every year. I highlighted the titles I've spotted of films also showing at the NYFF. In the Toronto list you'll find many of the big movies that you'll be excited to see in the fall and winter pre-Oscar season. Being a fan of Eddie Redmayne I'm excited to see his potentially career-making star turn in the Stephen Hawking biopic, THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING, directed by the great documentarian, James Marsh (still a biopic though). MY OLD LADY is coming soon to Landmark; it's an acting feast with Kevin Kline, Kristen Scott Thomas, and Maggie Smith duking it out in Paris. MISS JULIE with LIv Ullman would be an art house don't-miss. Fuqua's THE EQUALIZER and Dobkin's THE JUDGE are going to attract a huge amount of attention Stateside. Lone Sherfig is finally back with THE RIOT CLUB. Her AN EDUCATION attracted a lot of attention and put Carey Mulligan on the map. A new one from Laurent Cantet, RETURN TO ITHACA, might bear watching, though Guy Lodge (VARIETY) at Venice called it a "thoughtful but lethargic...talkfest." New ones form Kevin Smith, Jason Reitman, Noah Baumbach, Frederick Wiseman, Ramin Bahrani, Françcois Ozon, Christian Petzold, David Gordon Green, Takashi Miike, Johnnie To; Zvyagintsev's LEVIATHON, called "a stunning, surprisingly funny satire" by VARIETY'S Peter Debruge at Cannes; I might have liked to to see in the NYFF, still hoping to duplicate the magic THE RETURN had for me. (The Belvauz and Sciamma, scheduled to watch by D'Angelo, are not listed below, so these are not complete lists of the festival films.) NYFF overlaps are in red.
World premieres
The Good Lie, Philippe Falardeau, USA
The Theory of Everything, James Marsh, United Kingdom/USA
The Last Five Years, Richard LaGravenese, USA
Time Out of Mind, Oren Moverman, USA
Top Five, Chris Rock, USA
While We're Young, Noah Baumbach, USA
Still Alice, Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, USA
A Second Chance (En Chance Til), Susanne Bier, Denmark
The Reach, Jean-Baptiste Leonetti, USA
Phoenix, Christian Petzold, Germany
Nightcrawler, Dan Gilroy, USA
Ned Rifle, Hal Hartley, USA
My Old Lady, Israel Horovitz, USA
Miss Julie, Liv Ullmann, Norway/United Kingdom/Ireland
Men, Women and Children, Jason Reitman, USA
Mary Kom, Omung Kumar, India
Love & Mercy, Bill Pohlad, USA
Learning to Drive, Isabel Coixet, USA
Black and White, Mike Binder, USA
The Equalizer, Antoine Fuqua, USA
The Judge, David Dobkin, USA
A Little Chaos, Alan Rickman, United Kingdom
The New Girlfriend (Une Nouvelle Amie), François Ozon, France
The Riot Club, Lone Scherfig, United Kingdom
Samba, Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, France
This Is Where I Leave You, Shawn Levy, USA
Pawn Sacrifice, Ed Zwick, USA
American Heist, Sarik Andreasyan, USA
Before We Go, Chris Evans, USA
Breakup Buddies, Ning Hao, China
Cake, Daniel Barnz, USA
The Dead Lands (Hautoa), Toa Fraser, New Zealand/United Kingdom
The Drop, Michael R. Roskam, USA
Eden, Mia Hansen-Løve, France
The Gate, Régis Wargnier, France
The Keeping Room, Daniel Barber, USA
Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, Canada/France/Lebanon/Qatar/USA
Beats of the Antonov, Hajooj Kuka, Sudan/South Africa
Iraqi Odyssey, Samir, Iraq/Switzerland/Germany/United Arab Emirates
Sunshine Superman, Marah Strauch, USA/Norway/United Kingdom
Tales of the Grim Sleeper, Nick Broomfield USA/United Kingdom
This Is My Land, Tamara Erde, France
The Yes Men Are Revolting, Laura Nix and the Yes Men, USA
1001 Grams, Bent Hamer, Norway/Germany/France
The Face of an Angel, Michael Winterbottom, United Kingdom
[REC] 4: Apocalypse, Jaume Balagueró, Spain
Big Game, Jalmari Heleander, Finland/United Kingdom/Germany
Cub, Jonas Govaerts, Belgium
Tusk, Kevin Smith, USA
The Duke of Burgundy, Peter Strickland, United Kingdom
Luna, Dave McKean, United Kingdom
Shrew's Nest, Juanfer Andrés and Esteban Roel, Spain
Spring, Justin Benson/Aaron Moorhead, USA
Waste Land, Pieter Van Hees, Belgium
International premieres
Haemoo, Shim Sung-bo, South Korea
Wild, Jean-Marc Vallée, USA
Hungry Hearts, Saverio Costanzo, Italy
I Am Here, Fan Lixin, China
Seymour: An Introduction, Ethan Hawke, USA
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films, Mark Hartley, Australia
Tokyo Tribe, Sion Sono, Japan
Hyena, Gerard Johnson, United Kingdom
Over Your Dead Body, Takashi Miike, Japan
The World of Kanako, Tetsuya Nakashima, Japan
North American premieres
Return to Ithaca, Laurent Cantet, France
Red Amnesia (Chuangru Zhe), Wang Xiaoshuai, China
Pasolini, Abel Ferrara, France/Italy/Belgium
Manglehorn, David Gordon Green, USA
The Humbling, Barry Levinson, USA
Hector and the Search for Happiness, Peter Chelsom, Germany/Canada
Force Majeure, Ruben Östlund, Sweden/Norway/Denmark/France
Good Kill, Andrew Niccol, USA
Far from Men (Loin des Hommes), David Oelhoffen, France
Dearest, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, China/Hong Kong
Coming Home, Zhang Yimou, China
Maps to the Stars, David Cronenberg, Canada/Germany
National Diploma, Dieudo Hamadi France/Congo
National Gallery, Frederick Wiseman, France/USA
Natural Resistance, Jonathan Nossiter, Italy/France
Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (Ma'a al Fidda) Ossama Mohammed and Wiam Simav Bedirxan, Syria/France
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, Roy Andersson, Sweden/Norway/France/Germany
The Golden Era, Ann Hui, China/Hong Kong
Goodbye to Language 3D, Jean-Luc Godard, France
Hill of Freedom, Hong Sang-soo, South Korea
Revivre, Im Kwon-taek, South Korea
Timbuktu, Abderrahmane Sissako, France/Mauritania/Mali
It Follows, David Robert Mitchell, USA
Alleluia, Fabrice Du Welz, France/Belgium
Goodnight Mommy, Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, Austria
They Have Escaped, JP Valkeapää, Finland
Canadian premieres
Whiplash, Damien Chazelle, USA
The Imitation Game, Morten Tyldum, United Kingdom/USA
Wild Tales (Relatos Salvajes), Damian Szifron, Argentina/Spain
Rosewater, Jon Stewart, USA
Mr Turner, Mike Leigh, United Kingdom
9 Homes, Ramin Bahrani, USA
Foxcatcher, Bennett Miller, USA
Merchants of Doubt, Robert Kenner, USA
Red Army, Gabe Polsky, USA/Russia
The Look of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer, Denmark/Indonesia/Norway/Finland/United Kingdom
Leviathan, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia
The Guest, Adam Wingard, USA
What We Do in the Shadows, Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement, New Zealand/USA
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