Toronto Film Festival Preview
Very excited to see all of these movies:
"Front and center is the latest from Terry Gilliam, the often-eccentric director whose new movie 'The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus' (Sony Pictures Classics - Dec. 25) promises to return him to earlier territory by reteaming him with screenwriter Charles McKeown, who collaborated with Gilliam on his most fantastical films, Brazil and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Besides marking the last screen appearance by the late actor Heath Ledger, it apparently features some equally quirky performances from Johnny Depp, Jude Law and singer Tom Waits.
"The Coen Brothers make their third appearance in a row at the festival with 'A Serious Man' (Focus Features - Oct 2), a dark comedy that looks to return them to territory more in the vein of 'Miller's Crossing' or 'Barton Fink,' starring Michael Stuhlberg as a physics professor in the '60s who learns that his wife is leaving him, and things go downhill from there.
"France's greatest filmmaker (in this writer's opinion) Jean-Pierre Jeunet is bringing 'Micmacs' (Sony Pictures Classics), his first film since 2004's 'A Very Long Engagement,' to the festival. It stars Danny Boon as a man who puts together a group of misfits and stages an elaborate plot to take down a couple of weapons manufacturers he blames for his misfortune.
"'The Invention of Lying' (Warner Bros. – Oct. 2), Ricky Gervais' directorial debut (co-directed with Matthew Robinson), will also have its premiere at the festival, teaming him with the likes of Jennifer Garner, Rob Lowe, Louis C.K. and Jonah Hill, as he becomes the first and only man who learns how to lie in a world where everyone else always tells the truth."
Read their entire write-up here. Many more interesting entries.
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