Variety - The 2006 Toronto Film Festival: TORONTO -- Michael Apted's "Amazing Grace" has been tapped to close the 31st Toronto International Film Festival, as organizers unveiled the remainder of the 352-film slate Tuesday morning. The line-up includes Hollywood voltage aplenty both in front of and behind the lens, including works from Ridley Scott, Ron Mann, Mira Nair and Ethan Hawke, and star turns from the likes of Russell Crowe, Jude Law, Sandra Bullock, Sigourney Weaver, Brad Pitt, Juliette Binoche, Gwyneth Paltrow and Christina Ricci. Eight Gala presentations were added to the line-up, including the world premieres of Crowe-starrer "A Good Year" from Scott, Anthony Minghella's "Breaking and Entering," starring Law, Binoche, Martin Freeman and Robin Wright Penn, "Mon Meilleur Ami," directed by Patrice Leconte and starring Daniel Auteuil, and the North American preems of "Infamous" from Douglas McGrath, starring Bullock, Toby Jones, Peter Bogdanovitch and Jeff Daniels, "Black Book" from Paul Verhoeven, Feng Xiaogang's "The Banquet," and "After the Wedding" from Susanne Bier. Michael Moore, John Waters, John Cameron Mitchell, Karan Johar, Shah Rukh Khan, Rani Mukherji and Amitabh Bachchan will be taking part in interviews as part of the Mavericks line-up, and Bruce Weber, Albert Maysles, Perry Henzell, Costa Gavras and Christine Vachon will showcase works that were inspirational to them in the Dialogues:Talking with Pictures program. Joining the Master's program of 13 titles are Goran Paskaljevic's "The Optimists," "Strike" from Volker Schlondoroff, "Coeurs" directed by Alain Resnais, "L'intouchable" from Benoit Jacquot, Gianni Amelio's "The Missing Star" and from Robert Guediguian, "Le voyage en armenie." The Visions line-up has been rounded out with 31 films in total, including "D.O.A.P" from Gabriel Range, "Building a Broken Mousetrap, NYC Weights and Measures and Blessed are the Dreams of Men," directed by Jem Cohen, "Day on Fire" from Jay Anania, and "Khadak" from Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth. Also added to the Visions slate, Manoel de Oliveira's "Belle Toujours," "Bugmaster" from Katsuhiro Otomo, "Cages," directed by Olivier Masset-Depasse, and "Climates" from Nuri Bilge Ceylan. The remainder of the Special Presentations line-up of 39 films includes Ann Hui's "The Postmodern Life of my Aunt," "The Namesake" from Mira Nair, "Woman on the Beach" from Hong Sang-soo, "The Golden Door," directed by Emanuele Crialese, Todd Field's "Little Children" and Marc Evans' "Snow Cake." Alejandro Gomez Monteverde's "Bella" and "Twilight Dancers" from Mel Chionglo join the Contemporary World Cinema slate of 60 titles. Also on the list, "Sweet Mud" from Dror Shaul, "The Silence" from Cate Shortland, and Jeffrey Jeturian's "The Bet Collector." Joining the new Vanguard program will be the North American premiere of Ethan Hawke's "The Hottest State." The complete Real to Reel program features 34 titles from 18 countries, including "…So Goes the Nation" from James Stern and Adam Del Deo, "Sharkwater" directed by Rob Stewart, "Shot in the Dark" from Adrian Grenier, Jia Zhangke's "Dong" and "Tales of the Rat Fink" from Ron Mann. Two previously announced films, the North American premiere of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's "Babel," starring Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Gael Garcia Bernal, and the world preem of "Penelope," starring Ricci, Reese Witherspoon and Catherine O'Hara, will now screen as Gala Presentations. Fest runs September 7 to 16. GALA PRESENTATIONS - OPENING NIGHT "The Journals of Knud Rasmussen" GALA PRESENTATIONS - CLOSING NIGHT "Amazing Grace" GALA PRESENTATIONS "After the Wedding" |
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