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Not sure if last year's My Week with Marilyn sparked any renewed interest in the icon, but the Cannes people certainly think that a plastered image of the actress on the Croisette would make for some great eye-candy this coming May.

Currently in the "Woody Allen phase" of his career (unlike Woody, he left his homeland for more than pure economics) Abbas Kiarostami delivered in his third decade of work, an invigorating, intellectually stimulating piece of cinema with another career high with in Certified Copy. What I'm most curious about is how the kindness, civility and humanity in a post Tsunami Japan might be further illuminated/embedded in this work.

A pair of films from our favorite auteurs So Yong Kim's For Ellen and Antonio Campos' Simon Killer are finally making their long awaited world film fest debuts and items from an emerging talent base in the likes of Benh Zeitlin, Ry Russo-Young and James Ponsoldt are part of a handful of lucky filmmakers selected in Sundance's U.S. Dramatic Competiton section.

Breaking out around the time where NYFF is on its last legs, Montreal's Festival du nouveau cinéma (October 12 to 23) kicks in with about four times the size in volume, and obviously more of an eclectic range. This year is the festival's big 40 - and for the occasion they've commissioned some of the names who've been a part of the festival to each contribute a short film in the context of what is being called the "Cartes Blanches" series. Denis Côté, Deco Dawson, Sophie Deraspe, Rodrigue Jean, Zacharias Kunuk, Marie Losier, Catherine Martin, Bruce McDonald, Théodore Ushev and Denis Villeneuve will each submit a four minute short.

In the hours leading up to the unveiling, TIFF Programmer's Colin Geddes teased twitter followers on the make-up of his bijou section. Nine world premieres and one item from this year's SXSW in Ben Wheatley's Kill List are the make-up for this year's ten nights of Midnight Madness screenings, and of the 10-pack, film buyers have eight available items for North American pick-up with several US options, excluding Kill List which belongs to IFC Midnight and Livid early on) which Dimension grabbed early on.