Cannes pics, including Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or-winning "Entre les murs," dominate the first major programming announcement from the 33rd Toronto Intl. Film Festival.
Most of the 27 films unveiled Thursday will receive their North American or international preem at TIFF08.
The Special Presentations program will also see the North American preem of Canadian Atom Egoyan's Cannes' Ecumenical Jury Prize-winner "Adoration," Arnaud Desplechin's Special Prize-winner "Un conte de Noël", starring Catherine Deneuve, and Matteo Garrone's Grand Prix-winner "Gomorrah."
The sole gala announced today is Kim Jee-woon's kimchi western "The Good, The Bad, The Weird," the biggest budget South Korean flick to date. Set in 1930s Japanese-controlled Korea, the film is inspired by the Sergio Leone classic.
The Dardenne brothers' Cannes best screenplay-winner "Le Silence de Lorna" receives its North American preem in the Masters program, as do Cannes best director Noru Bilge Ceylan's "Three Monkeys," Jia Zhang-ke's Joen-Chen-starrer "24 City," Brit vet director Terence Davies' "Of Time and the City" and Jerzy Skolimowski's "Four Nights with Anna."
Slovakian documentarian Juraj Lehotský's "Blind Loves" is the first title announced in the Real to Reel program.
Brazilian Walter Salles' Palme nominee "Linha de Passe," co-directed with Daniela Thomas and starring Cannes best actress Sandra Corveloni, lands in Contemporary World Cinema. Program also includes North American preems of Frederica Veiroj's "Acne," Bent Hamer's "O'Horten," Pablo Trapero's "Lion's Den, Amos Kollek's "Restless" and Götz Spielmann's "Revanche."
Un Certain Regard winner "Tulpan," directed by Sergey Dvortsevoy, and Caméra d'Or winner "Hunger," directed by Steve McQueen, highlight Discovery. Program also features Barry Jenkins' "Medicine for Melancholy," Gabriel Medina's "The Paranoids," Pablo Agüero's "Salamandra," Matthew Newton's "Three Blind Mice" and Pablo Larraín's "Tony Manero," about a young Chilean obsessed with John Travolta's "Saturday Night Fever" character.
The avant-garde Visions program includes the North American preem of Lisandro Alonso's "Liverpool" and Brillante Mendoza's "Service," while the similarly edgy Vanguard will show Ari Folman's "Waltz With Bashir."
TIFF also announced new venue today. The Festival Village, as organizers like to call fest's spread-out downtown hub, will include the newly opened 10 AMC (corner Yonge & Dundas streets), which provides almost one third of fest's 34 screens as well as state-of-the-art digital facilities. Most of the familiar TIFF venues return.
TIFF08 runs Sept. 4.-13. Info at www.tiff08.ca.
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