TIFF 2010: 25 World Premieres to be Announced

After holding back for about a month’s time, today at 10:00 a.m. EST, Cameron Bailey and Piers Handling will announce the first wave of films to be part of the 35th festival edition and with Venice releasing their list tomorrow, TIFF will measure up by throwing out some huge red-carpet titles (25 to be exact). Tweeted by Bailey, 8 Gala World Premiere titles and 17 Special Presentation World Premiere titles are expected to be mentioned at the press conference (I’ll be there with minute by minute updates) and if they happen to mention a certain Terrence Malick film or top tier items such as True Grit, Rabbit Hole, 127 Hours and The Fighter, then Bailer/Handling might be considered gods among film fest programmers in this unusually rich season for film.

Expected to be less monstrous in size (which had been my previous complaint in the years past), this year’s TIFF will have the distinction of opening up a sweet lieu for cinephiles in the Bell Lightbox. The facility is breaking out the champagne on September 12th and will most likely showcase the film that I thought was going to open the festival, in Richard J. Lewis’ Barney’s Version.

In preparation for tomorrow’s announcements, I’ve made a quick checklist of probable titles (with a huge omission of foreign language films) and when the 25 are unveiled, I’ll be in a better posture to guess what Venice’s Marco Mueller has up his sleeve. Stay tuned folks.

All Good Things – Andrew Jarecki
Bagman – George Hickenlooper
Barney’s Version – Richard J. Lewis
The Beaver – Jodie Foster
Brighton Rock – Rowan Joffe
The Conspirator – Robert Redford
Conviction – Tony Goldwyn
The Debt – John Madden
The Details – Jacob Aaron Estes
Easy A – Will Gluck
Hereafter – Clint Eastwood
The Hungry Rabbit Jumps – Roger Donaldson
I’m Still Here – Casey Affleck
It’s Kind of a Funny Story – Ryan Fleck
The King’s Speech – Tom Hooper
Last Night – Massy Tadjedin
Little White Lies – Guillaume Canet
London Boulevard – William Monahan
Love and Other Drugs – Edward Zwick
Main Street – John Doyle
Made in Dagenham – Nigel Cole
Morning Glory – Roger Michell
The Next Three Days – Paul Haggis
Passion Play – Mitch Glazer
Perfect Sense – David Mackenzie
Rum Diary – Bruce Robinson
Stone – John Curran
Trust – David Schwimmer
The Way Back – Peter Weir
The Whistleblower – Larysa Kondracki
What’s Wrong With Virginia? – Dustin Lance Black