Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Docs and Midnight Madness at Toronto '09

More titles have been added to the Toronto International Film Festival's line-up. I have them listed below, sorry if I'm repeating any of these. Some of the notable titles below include Diablo Cody's screenwriting follow-up to Juno, Jennifer's Body; the sequel to [REC]; the sequel to Ong Bak; another sure-to-be-terrible addition to George A. Romero's Dead Saga; a documentary about The White Stripes, from one of the directors of, um, Out Cold; and a documentary compiled of found footage from a Henri-Georges Clouzot film with Romy Schneider entitled L'enfer de Henri-Georges Clouzot. Read more about all the films that have already been announced at their official website.

Real to Reel

- The Art of the Steal - d. Don Argott - USA
- Bassidji - d. Mehran Tamadon - Iran/France/Switzerland
- Colony - d. Carter Gunn, Ross McDonnell - Ireland
- L'enfer de Henri-Georges Clouzot - d. Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea - w. Romt Schneider, Jacques Gamblin, Henri-Georges Clouzot - France
- Google Baby - d. Zippi Brand Frank - Israel
- How to Fold a Flag - d. Michael Tucker, Petra Epperlein (Gunner Palace, The Prisoner; or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair) - USA
- The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers - d. Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith - USA
- Presumed Guilty [Presunto culpable] - d. Roberto Hernández, Geoffrey Smith - Mexico
- Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags - d. Marc Levin (Slam, Mr. Untouchable) - USA
- Snowblind - Vikran Jayanti (Britney Spears Saved My Life) - USA
- The Topp Twins - d. Leanne Pooley - New Zealand
- Videocracy - d. Erik Gandini (Gitmo) - Sweden

Midnight Madness

- [REC] 2 - d. Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza - Spain
- Bitch Slap - d. Rick Jacobson - w. Lucy Lawless - USA
- Daybreakers - d. Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig (Undead) - w. Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill - USA/Australia
- Jennifer's Body - d. Karyn Kusama (Girlfight, Aeon Flux) - w. Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Adam Brody, Amy Sedaris, J.K. Simmons - USA
- The Loved Ones - d. Sean Byrne - Australia
- Ong Bak 2: The Beginning - d. Tony Jaa, Panna Rittikrai - w. Jaa - Thailand
- Survival of the Dead - d. George A. Romero - w. Kenneth Welsh, Devon Bostick - Canada
- Symbol - d. Hitoshi Matsumoto (Big Man Japan) - w. Matsumoto - Japan
- A Town Called Panic [Panique au village] - d. Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar - Belgium/Luxembourg/France