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Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire may have walked away with TIFF's top prize of the People's Choice Award, but the critics are championing the latest effort from Hirokazu Kore-Eda instead and a pair of films among my tops of the festival in Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye,Solo and Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler are tied for second in a survey conducted by Eugene Hernandez over at indieWIRE.

Despite going home empty-handed, this was one of the most buzzed about titles at Cannes.

I'm not sure what you call those large fishing nets that sweep the bottom of oceans floors in an attempt to capture mass quantities of fish, but I'd say that the curators from the NYFF certainly put this type of strategy into practice when setting up the line-up for the 46th edition to take place at the end of September until the midway point of October.

Days before the winners at this year's edition of the Cannes film festival were announced, a picture that was deemed as a potential contender for the Palme and I would say was one among the top three buzz pics on everyone's lips - almost every film critic or market person I spoke to agreed that the animated documentary film had a fair chance. Though it went home empty handed, Variety reports that after finding a good return for their investment with Persepolis that Sony Pictures Classics has laid claim to Waltz with Bashir.

Greetings folks! IONCINEMA.com’s editor-in-chief is coming to you LIVE from the world’s premiere film festival offering you some of the sights and sounds of the fest beginning with today’s featured film: the festival’s opener and third film from Brazil’s Fernando Meirelles.