The final tally and full list of films presented at this year's TIFF have been announced today and hardcore cinephiles will have many options available to them out of the 261 film selected.
Okay folks here we have it - the cream of the crop of this fall's movie going season. Coincidently 3 of the 4 picks have the potential to make some viewers squirm and actress Naomi Watts might be part of these nightmares. And now, without much further ado here are IONCINEMA.com's final four...
First reaction: non-surprise. Many of the films mentioned below were tagged to be amongst the final choices – and the ones that I thought were going to break into the fest (namely a couple of American pics) look to be headed to Italy’s Venice film fest in the fall. Two films that I won’t be checking out are the ones that I’ve already seen (albeit, 10 minutes more of Deathproof could be interesting) and Zodiac...
2007 is the year that the Cannes film festival turns 60 and to celebrate the occasion they asked 35 world-ranking directors to mark the b-day bash with a three-minute short. For many Chacun son cinema shall bring out the pearly whites among he few cinephiles lucky enough to see the film. Sixty is also nifty because of the onslaught of other projects that will most likely make it at this year’s fest. Both a culmination of what I’ve read in Variety and cineuropa.org and my own two cents worth, this is a taste of some of the stuff we can expect to see at this year’s 60th.