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23.06.11 — The Most Anticipated Films For Venice, Telluride & Toronto
The Oscar launching pads start at the Venice Film Festival (August 31-September 10), followed by Telluride over Labor Day weekend, and then finally the Toronto International Film Festival (September 8-18). Last year, three of the 10 Best Picture nominees screened at the Venice and/or Toronto (and it was five the year before).
Will this be a good year?
Among the possible, likely, or essentially assured filmmakers who will premiere at Venice, Telluride or Toronto are Steven Soderbergh, Walter Salles, George Clooney, Whit Stillman, Sarah Polley, Jason Reitman, Francis Ford Coppola, Roman Polanski, Alexander Payne, David Cronenberg, Andrea Arnold and, yes, Madonna.
Here’s a list of 50 films, all new movies that haven’t played anywhere yet…
”50/50,” directed by Jonathan Levine
”Albert Nobbs,” directed by Rodrigo García
”Alps,” directed Giorgos Lanthimos
”A Burning Summer” (Un été brûlant), directed by Philippe Garrel
”Butter,” directed by Jim Field Smith
From the director of "C.R.A.Z.Y" and "Young Victoria"
”Café de flore,” directed by Jean-Marc Vallée (Canada)
”Carnage,” directed by Roman Polanski
”Chicken With Plums, directed by Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis 2007)
“The Congress,” directed by Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir 2009) http://bit.ly/k94TQz
”Contagion” and “Haywire,” both directed by Steven Soderbergh
”A Dangerous Method,” directed by David Cronenberg (Canada)
”Dark Horse,” directed by Todd Solondz
”The Deep Blue Sea,” directed by Terence Davies
”The Descendants,” directed by Alexander Payne http://bit.ly/kQ1KZP
”Dream House,” directed by Jim Sheridan
”Faust,” directed by Alexander Sokurov
”The Fields,” directed by Ami Canaan Mann
”For Ellen,” directed by So Yong Kim
“Garbage in the Garden of Eden,” directed by Fatih Akin
”The Grandmasters,” directed by Wong Kar Wai
“High Chicago,” directed by Alfons Adetuyi
”Human Centipede II,” directed by Tom Six
”The Ides of March,” directed by George Clooney (Venice Opening Night Film)
”The Impossible,” directed by Juan Antonio Bayona
”In Time,” directed by Andrew Niccol
Meryl Streep as Margret Thatcher
”The Iron Lady,” directed by Phyllida Lloyd – Meryl Streep as Margret Thatcher
“Jeff Who Lives at Home, directed by Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass
”The Lady,” directed by Luc Besson
“Margaret, directed by Kenneth Lonergan
”Moneyball,” directed by Bennett Miller
“The Moth Diaries,” directed by Mary Harron
”My Week With Marilyn,” directed by Simon Curtis – http://bit.ly/kuTgOS
”On The Road, directed by Walter Salles
”Paradise,” directed by Ulrich Seidl
”Prey,” directed by Brillante Mendoza
”Rampart,” directed by Oren Moverman
“RasTa: A Soul’s Journey,” directed by Stuart Samuels
”The Rum Diary,” directed by Bruce Robinson
”Seven Days,” directed by Michael Winterbottom
"Shame" is Steve McQueen's next film after the hit "Hunger" in 2008
”Shame,” directed by Steve McQueen
“Simon Killer,” directed by Antonio Campos
”The Sitter,” directed by David Gordon Green
”Take This Waltz,” directed by Sarah Polley (Canada)
”Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,” directed by Tomas Alfredsson
”Twixt Now and Sunrise,” directed by Francis Ford Coppola
“Wanderlust,” directed by David Wain
”W.E.,” directed by Madonna
”Wuthering Heights,” directed by Andrea Arnold
”Young Adult,” directed by Jason Reitman (Canada)
Please keep in mind with our programs (internship, networking & filmmakers’ institute) you can see many of these films at the festival and enjoy networking receptions and the hospitality of a beautiful city – Toronto. http://bit.ly/l5U5EH
Thanks to indieWire.com for the list of films – for detailed synopsis on each film above – click http://bit.ly/kLYDf6