The 39th Toronto Film Festival has announced part of their expected lineup today and unsurprisingly there is a lot of future awards contenders making the rounds such as The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher. Rounding out some of the high-profile premieres are The Judge starring Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall, Jon Stewart’s Rosewater, Jason Reitman’s Men, Women and Children featuring Adam Sandler in a serious role again and biopics of Stephen Hawking and Bobby Fischer.
The closing night feature will be A Little Chaos starring Kate Winslet directed by Alan Rickman, who is stepping into the role of directing for the first time. An opening film has not yet been announced, but festival heads Piers Handling and Cameron Bailey said they would do so shortly.
TIFF runs September 4th through the 14th.
World premieres
The Good Lie, Philippe Falardeau, USA
The Theory of Everything, James Marsh, United Kingdom/USA
The Last Five Years, Richard LaGravenese, USA
Time Out of Mind, Oren Moverman, USA
Top Five, Chris Rock, USA
While We’re Young, Noah Baumbach, USA
Still Alice, Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, USA
A Second Chance (En chance til), Susanne Bier, Denmark
The Reach, Jean-Baptiste Leonetti, USA
Phoenix, Christian Petzold, Germany
Nightcrawler, Dan Gilroy, USA
Ned Rifle, Hal Hartley, USA
My Old Lady, Israel Horovitz, USA
Miss Julie, Liv Ullmann, Norway/United Kingdom/Ireland
Men, Women and Children, Jason Reitman, USA
Mary Kom, Omung Kumar, India
Love & Mercy, Bill Pohlad, USA
Learning to Drive, Isabel Coixet, USA
Black and White, Mike Binder, USA
The Equalizer, Antoine Fuqua, USA
The Judge, David Dobkin, USA
A Little Chaos, Alan Rickman, United Kingdom
The New Girlfriend (Une Nouvelle Amie), Francois Ozon, France
The Riot Club, Lone Scherfig, United Kingdom
Samba, Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, France
This is Where I Leave You, Shawn Levy, USA
Pawn Sacrifice, Ed Zwick, USA
American Heist, Sarik Andreasyan, USA
Before We Go, Chris Evans, USA
Breakup Buddies, Ning Hao, China
Cake, Daniel Barnz, USA
The Dead Lands (Hautoa), Toa Fraser, New Zealand/United Kingdom
The Drop, Michael R. Roskam, USA
Eden, Mia Hansen-Love, France
The Gate, Règis Wargnier, France
The Keeping Room, Daniel Barber, USA
Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, Canada/France/Lebanon/Qatar/USA
International premieres
Haemoo, Shim Sung-bo, South Korea
Wild, Jean-Marc Vallée, USA
Hungry Hearts, Saverio Costanzo, Italy
North American premieres
Return to Ithaca, Laurent Cantet, France
Red Amnesia (Chuangru Zhe), Wang Xiaoshuai, China
Pasolini, Abel Ferrara, France/Italy/Belgium
Manglehorn, David Gordon Green, USA
The Humbling, Barry Levinson, USA
Hector and the Search for Happiness, Peter Chelsom, Germany/Canada
Force Majeure, Ruben Östlund, Sweden/Norway/Denmark/France
Good Kill, Andrew Niccol, USA
Far From Men (Loin des Hommes), David Oelhoffen, France
Dearest, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, China/Hong Kong
Coming Home, Zhang Yimou, China
Maps to the Stars, David Cronenberg, Canada/Germany
Canadian premieres
Whiplash, Damien Chazelle, USA
The Imitation Game, Morten Tyldum, United Kingdom/USA
Wild Tales (Relatos salvajes), Damian Szifron, Argentina/Spain
Rosewater, Jon Stewart
Mr Turner, Mike Leigh, United Kingdom
9 Homes, Ramin Bahrani, USA
Foxcatcher, Bennett Miller, USA
Source: THR
