TIFF 2009 Picture Preview: 18 Films from 'Bad Lieutenant' to 'Young Victoria'
Clooney, Norton, Reitman, Herzog, Fox, Cage, Barrymore and then some
DIRECTOR: Jason Reitman
From Jason Reitman, the Oscar nominated director of "Juno," comes a comedy called "Up in the Air" starring Oscar winner George Clooney as Ryan Bingham, a corporate hatchet man who loves his life on the road but is forced to fight for his job when his company downsizes its travel budget. He is required to spend more time at home just as he is on the cusp of a goal he's worked toward for years: reaching five million frequent flyer miles and just after he's met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams.
CAST: Vera Farmiga, Gaspard Ulliel, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Jeremie Renier
DIRECTOR: Niki Caro
Set in early 19th century France The Vintner's Luck tells the compelling tale of Sobran Jodeau, an ambitious young peasant winemaker and the three loves of his life—his beautiful and passionate wife Celeste, the proudly intellectual baroness Aurora de Valday and Xas, an angel who strikes up an unlikely friendship with Sobran. A fantastical creature with wings that smell of snow, Xas turns out to be an unconventional mentor. Under his guidance Sobran is forced to fathom the nature of love and belief and in the process, grapples with the sensual, the sacred and the profane—all in pursuit of the perfect vintage.
CAST: Ellen Page, Kristen Wiig, Drew Barrymore, Juliette Lewis, Zoe Bell, Jimmy Fallon, Marcia Gay Harden, Daniel Stern, Eve
DIRECTOR: Drew Barrymore
Whip It!, the directorial debut of Drew Barrymore, stars Ellen Page (Juno) as Bliss, a rebellious Texas teen who throws in her small town beauty pageant crown for the rowdy world of roller derby. Marcia Gay Harden (Mystic River, Pollock) plays Bliss' disapproving mother, while Kristen Wiig (Saturday Night Live) and Juliette Lewis (Old School) play roller-derby stars. Whip It! also stars Eve, Jimmy Fallon, and Daniel Stern
CAST: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Miranda Richardson, Mark Strong, Jim Broadbent, Paul Bettany, Thomas Kretschmann, Jesper Christensen
DIRECTOR: Jean-Marc Vallée
The Young Victoria chronicles Queen Victoria's ascension to the throne, focusing on the early turbulent years of her reign and her legendary romance and marriage to Prince Albert.
DIRECTOR: Miguel Arteta
Youth in Revolt is the irreverent story about the wild adventures of a teenage boy named Nick Twisp who meets the girl of his dreams while on a family vacation and has to turn his life and the lives of all those around him upside down in order to be with her.
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Only lookin forward to Health Ledger's last performance. Everything else is secondary…
Mother and Child with Annette Bening, Naomi Watts and Kerry Washington will also be there.
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits with Natalie Portman will be there as well.
I'm gonna be theeeeeeeerrreee
and I'm slightly excited.
And don't forget A Serious Man, Broken Embraces and An Education!
And would you mind deleting my previous post?
Saw The Damned United last week, good time indeed. Solid acting, sharp dialogue, well done narrative. Nothing to write home about a good time indeed.
You know that I agreed to withhold pre-judgement from "Agora" and "Young Victoria" and I'm going to keep my promises. "Dorian Gray" looks a little to cheesecake. I mean, it's supposed to be shocking that he has sex with a black woman? But it could just be another victim of a poorly conceived trailer, which is becoming all too common nowadays. "Fish Tank" had raves from Cannes. A little reminiscent of "Somersault" ? However, I'm not a big fan of plots full mother/daughter screaming at each other, something "Somersault" avoided.
I don't know what to think about "The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus." Ordinarily this kind of film is right up my alley. I'm certainly not going to see it for Heath Ledger. He looks rather beaten in the clips I've seen and it's too sad to know that he was in the process of slowly killing himself during the filming. I haven't read much praise for this but I'll probably see it and judge for myself.
"Jennifer's Body"? No way. And I've made a vow after "Knowing" to never watch another Nic Cage film again so "Bad Lieutenant" is off my radar.
Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank is a must see, the reviews and prizes are greatly deservered. Fine performances from the established stars Michael Fassbender,Kirsten Wareing and Harry Treadaway, but Andrea Arnold has the nack of discovering raw talent, Katie Jarvis is a brilliant find, along with Rebbecca Griffiths,very comical and Charlotte Collins, enemy and match to Jarvis, finding these girls from Essex England makes Fish Tank a raw and naturalistic story of life through an adolesant eye. Cannot wait to it hits the cinema's Stateside, so they may see life is hard but hopeful in the UK too.
Has no one seen Leaves of Grass at TIFF?