Today co-directors Cameron Bailey and Piers Handling of the Toronto International Film Festival announce the first batch of titles that are the make-up of the 36th edition. Today's the pair will read off mostly Gala screening mentions (our Blake Williams will be Live tweeting), which in turn give us a strong indication as to what will be shown in Venice and what Telluride, Nyff and BFI London Film Festivals might salvage/lasso as their own. We expect no mention in dossiers such as Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar, Lasse Hallström's Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Alexander Payne's The Descendants and Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret, but we're expecting the fest heads to stake their claim on select World Premiere titles and several North America premieres of Cannes items and if the Best Picture Oscar doesn't go to Tree of Life, then it'll certainly be mentioned among them. Before we...
- 7/26/2011
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