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2010 Deauville American Film Fest Heavy on Sundance Titles
Going as far back as TIFF 2009's The Joneses and Mother and Child, and as recent as Cannes, with filmmakers that we recently profiled in on our American New Wave 25 list (Alistair Banks Griffin and David Robert Mitchell), for the most part, this will be a Park City heavy edition.
25th Venice Critics’ Week: Pernilla August and Alix Delaporte Among 7 Selected
Venice Critic's Week have released their seven film (plus two) slate and have managed to lasso Swedish actress Pernilla August's highly anticipated directorial debut Svinalangorna, or what I'll now be calling by the simpler title of Beyond.
Black Swan: Ballet Competition Opens 2010 Venice Competition
The Lido will have it's Black Swan. Darren Aronofsky who brought The Wrestler to the festival a couple of years earlier will go in without having to worry about bidding wars and the such as it is Fox Searchlight that owns the title and will be opening (and not as I had predicted Focus Features The American) the oldest film festival that matters.
2010 TIFF Bound: David Schwimmer’s ‘Trust’
One more slip, one more TIFF title revealed. Looks like David Schwimmer is headed to the Toronto red carpets again. Schwimmer first got the taste for directing feature films with the miserably off-kilter romp Run, Fat Boy, Run (which still managed to make Picturehouse a 6 million return) has switched up gears with a tale that tells the damaging effects an online sexual predator has on a family.
Vets Paul Morrissey, Isaac Julien, Monte Hellman and Pacino are among New Venice Film Fest Possibilities
While there are no mentions of Terrence Malick, Variety are confirming the obvious in Aronofsky's Black Swan, Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff, Corbijn's The American, Schnabel's Miral, Coppola's Somewhere, Kechiche's Black Venus, Ozon's Potiche, Tykwer's Three and Cordier's Happy Few all making it to the Lido this year, but they've added a couple more brow lifters that I'll delve into below.
