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Despite the lottery-esque sounding odds, the U.S Dramatic Competition section which produces the finest American indie specimens such as Frozen River, Winter's Bone, Blue Valentine, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Beasts...

Ry Russo-Young's pseudo fictional experimental account (a breath of fresh air in the context of the 30 odd films I saw at 2009's Sundance Film Festival) will finally receive some a theatrical release via the Factory 25 folks. Albeit it'll be a short two weeks and then a DVD release - which could be read as a derogatory remark of sorts, but instead I'm glad that a new Palm Pictures type of label have emerged.

We'll wait before official critical word from the Lido to push this title up as a high priority film to cover at TIFF, but Ford's A Single Man is among a dozen films competing in Venice and with Julianne Moore who looks great any decade setting (she was sublime in Savage Grace) on board and Colin Firth, who I never give enough credit to, but appreciated his loving patriarch bit in Genova, in the driver's seat, I think we might be in for a surprise.

Michael Clayton and Juno might not have 8 nominations like my favorite two pictures of the year each have (No Country for Old Men...