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The Film Society of Lincoln Center is looking to leverage its brand-spanking-new facilities as much as possible for the upcoming 49th annual New York Film Festival, which takes place from September 30-October 16. Already promising an expansion of screenings and panels, the FSLC announced today that it is adding two Gala nights to accompany screenings of two of the fall’s most anticipated films, David Cronenberg’s ‘A Dangerous Method,’ and Pedro Almodovar’s ‘The Skin I Live In.’

The U.K team only have one film in the Cannes competition in Takashi's Miike's Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai, but its the more than one item in Hanway Films upcoming slate that has me salivating. They've got Steve McQueen's Shame, Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights and David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method all in the oven. If there is a break-in at the Hanway offices this week, I don't want anyone thinking it was me.

This year the French production company/distributor and sale co. lead by Paulo Branco has a modest, but promising line-up which includes David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis with a stacked cast of Robert Pattinson, Paul Giamatti, Juliette Binoche, Samantha Morton, Mathieu Amalric and Canucks Sarah Gadon and Jay Baruchel. The company who reps Mysteries of Lisbon will also produce Paul Ruiz's next film, Lines of Wellington which is currently in pre-production.

Ask me who Canada's best working filmmaker is at the moment, and I'd make a convincing argument that it isn't Guy Maddin, David Cronenberg or Atom Egoyan, but instead, a French Canadian filmmaker who wasn't at Cannes this year but will be in Venice. I'd bestow the honor on Denis Villeneuve from August 32nd on Earth (1998) and Maelström (2000) fame, and most recently 2008's short film Next Floor and the sobering, Polytechnique (2009) and his fourth feature film, Incendies (Scorched) will be competing in the Venice Days sidebar section which regularly turns out some gems.

This May, we are keeping tabs on David Cronenberg's reunion with thesps from Eastern Promises which is set for an Europe shoot, we have Andrea Arnold taking over the Wuthering Heights project throwing out previously attached actors in favor of a mostly unknown Kaya Scodelario, and a yet to be determined male lead. Post-Precious, we have Lee Daniels working on what should be a much talked about film in next year's campaign.