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Last Minute Additions at TIFF: Makhmalbaf’s Green Days and Tian Zhuangzhuang’s The Warrior and the Wolf
TIFF are also getting in on Hana Makhmalbaf's Green Days. After the title was added as a last minute addition to the Venice Film Festival, the politically-driven, very much relevant half doc/have fiction account of women in Iran has been added to TIFF's Vanguard lineup.
Miramax Blows Out All ’32 Candles’
The John Hughes' legacy lives on. After fan appreciation week since his death, Miramax Films is putting a project together that seems to takes its cues from Sixteen Candles. The Variety blurb tells us that author Ernessa Carter had her novel 32 Candles optioned by the indie unit.
London Calling: Mike Leigh Shooting for 2010
Working on back to back Mike Leigh films must be like the back to school experience. You are surrounded by friends you made the year film before.
Germany (Oscar) Hopeful with Haneke’s The White Ribbon
You'd have to go way back until 1988's Bille August's Pelle the Conqueror to find the last picture to win both the Cannes Palme d'or and the Oscar for Best Foreign film in the same year.
Toronto Buyers Club: Top 10 Most Sought After Titles at TIFF 2009
While I'm more curious about who'll end up with Todd Solondz's Life During Wartime, Werner Herzog's My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?, Rick Jacobson's Bitch Slap, Giuseppe Tornatore epic Baaria and the only Cannes title I think that is remaining and is worth buying (Bong Joon-ho's Mother), after scouring the entire program - I came up with a top 10 list of the high profile films should be high priorities for the buyers.
