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Push It Real Good: Prieto’s Glossy Facelift of Refn’s Cult Classic an Empty-headed Bauble Spanish filmmaker Luis Prieto makes his English language debut with a...

An actor who I sincerely hope would devote more time behind the camera (examples Tree Lounge, Interview and one vivid Sopranos episode I have in mind prove that Buscemi has got the goods) our first and only William S. Burroughs fix for 2012 might come via Viggo Mortensen's bit of Old Bull Lee in On the Road. With a great trio of characters and Moverman's involvement, plus the fact that the novel was written in '52 but only published in 1984 adds to the fascination behind the prose of this great American Beat Generation novelist.

Not unlike other years, 2011 had its share of particular titles that dominated cinematic conversations (though I don’t recall ever having had more conversations about a new film than The Tree of Life), with the end of the year heralding shoe-in awards fodder for hotly anticipated, overbearing biopics, starring Meryl Streep and Michelle Williams.

TIFF's co-directors Cameron Bailey and Piers Handling have got us salivating with the smorgasbord list of world premiere offerings for next September. Opening film comes as a surprise, as we've haven't heard much about it, but seeing that doc filmmaker Davis Guggenheim has a great relationship with the festival, From The Sky Down a doc about U2 (20 or so years after Phil Joanou's U2: Rattle & Hum) will take centre stage. Doc-programmer guru Thom Powers makes sure that the fest will be a rocking good edition by also adding Pearl Jam Twenty from fanboy Cameron Crowe.

Before we unveil our most anticipated film of 2011, I figure we might want to emphasize some of the names that most frequently populated our Top 100 Most Anticipated Films list. Here is our version of 10 movers and shakers for 2011.