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Selected for the Main Comp at the Cannes Film Festival in 1966, John Frankenheimer’s Seconds is a grim, nightmarish thriller that embodies many distinctive...

Ken Jacobs' SEEKING THE MONKEY KING, Alexis Dos Santos' Random Strangers and the Cannes winning Nash Edgerton's BEAR are part of the shorts program which this year is comprised of 64 films selected from a whopping 7,675 submissions.

At the beginning of every month, Ioncinema.com's "Tracking Shot" features a handful of projects that are moments away from lensing and that we feel are worth signaling out. This October 2011, we are keeping tabs on a five projects including an Arnold Schwarzenegger, 30 million dollar action project which we would normally never include on such a list. Last Stand has I Saw the Devil's Kim Jee-woon directing which means this could be bad-ass in terms of tone and style.

TIFF's edgy Vanguard section features the world premiere of Romain Gavras' Our Day Will Come featuring the scary looking Vincent Cassel (also at TIFF for Blakc Swan) and perhaps M.I.A's Born Free as part of the film's soundtrack.

Apart from the world premiere of Michael Cuesta's Tell-Tale and one more festival screening and chance to shine for Hirokazu Kore-eda's Still Walking, the selections are comprised of unknown projects, New York-based film productions that were completed in the last year, a bunch of films that receive a May theatrical release anyways and a batch of better than average films that were showcased at Sundance.