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Toronto hosts World Preems for Leaves of Grass and Ondine
Presented at last year's TIFF as a soon to be lensed project, Leaves of Grass returns as a full fledged offering with Edward Norton to the power of two (see still). Tim Blake Nelson got to present his last picture as a director The Grey Zone two days after 9/11. Also in the special presentation category we find Neil Jordan's Ondine, a fantasy pic that might remind some people out there of Splash.
Perfect Sundance-Cannes-TIFF Trifecta for ‘Precious’
Lee Daniels will have trouble topping 2009, unless 2010 scores him tons of awards. After receiving the acclaim from Sundance and making a stop in Cannes' Un Certain Regard section, Precious: Based On The Novel “Push” By Sapphire will receive some more media nurturing during the Toronto Film Festival. After wowing audiences with Whale Rider, Niko Caro re-teams with Keisha Castle-Hughes and adds vets Vera Farmiga and Jérémie Renier to The Vinter's Luck mix.
Partir - Catherine Corsini
Precious: Based On The Novel “Push” By Sapphire – Lee Daniels
Scheherazade Tell Me a Story - Yousry Nasrallah
Solitary Man - Brian Koppelman and David Levien
Valhalla Rising - Nicolas Winding Refn
Vengeance - Johnnie To
The Vintner’s Luck - Niki Caro
Oscilloscope Stands at The Messenger’s Doorstep
I was beginning to think that Oren Moverman's emotionally charged directorial debut was going to be a victim of not indifference, but the distributors being afraid of the movie-going public's lack of interest for films somehow related to the Iraq war.
New Poster for Taxidermia and Gyorgy Palfi’s Future Slate
I'm not sure when Regent Releasing/Here Films inserted Taxidermia into their line-up, but I'm glad I'll get a first chance to see a film that lit up the festival circuit back in 06'. Since the film, Hungarian filmmaker Gyorgy Palfi has pretty much booked himself several projects including the recently preemed I Am Not Your Friend at the Karlovy Vary Film Fest and he is currently working on a trio of projects including his first English language effort in The Blood Hurricaine, Man and Woman and Toldi.
Real Girls’ Zooey Deschanel cast in Gordon Green’s Your Highness
It will be a pub crawl reunion for Zooey Dechanel - she has just signed up to play alongside her All the Real Girls' co-star Danny McBride and her director David Gordon Green.
