A good chunk of the 2012 Toronto Film Festival was just released, and your shiny new world-premiering movies are … Looper, the Joseph Gordon-Levitt time-travel assassin movie, which will open the festival; the Wachowskis’ Cloud Atlas; Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing; Ben Affleck’s Argo, also starring Bryan Cranston; Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha, starring Greta Gerwig; David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook, a.k.a. the movie in which Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence ballroom dance; Hyde Park on Hudson, a.k.a. the Bill Murray FDR movie; and The Place Beyond the Pines, which reunites Blue Valentine director Derek Cianfrance with none other than Ryan Gosling. More below.
World Premieres
Looper (Rian Johnson)
Cloud Atlas (The Wachowskis & Tom Tykwer)
Argo (Ben Affleck)
Silver Linings Playbook (David O Russell)
Love, Marilyn (Liz Garbus)
Free Angela And All Political Prisoners (Shola Lynch)
The Place Beyond The Pines (Derek Cianfrance)
Midnight’s Children (Deepa Mehta)
Hyde Park On Hudson (Roger Michell)
Great Expectations (Mike Newell)
Inescapable (Rubba Nadda)
Twice Born (Sergio Castellitto)
English Vinglish (Gauri Shinde)
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
Thanks For Sharing (Stuart Blumberg)
End Of Watch (David Ayer)
Imogene (Robert Puccini and Shari Springer Berman)
A Late Quartet (Yaron Zilberman)
Much Ado About Nothing (Joss Whedon)
Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
The Time Being (Nenad Cicin-Sain)
Writers (Josh Boone)
At Any Price (Ramin Bahrani)
Venus And Serena (Maiken Baird)
Byzantium (Neil Jordan)
Quartet (Dustin Hoffman)
Ginger And Rosa (Sally Potter)
A Liar’s Autobiography (Ben Timlett, Bill JOnes, Jeff Simpson)
Foxfire (Laurent Cantet)
In The House (Francois Ozon)
The Impossible (JA Bayona
Hannah Arendt (Margarethe Von Trotta)
Mr. Pip (Andrew Adamson)
Capital (Costa-Gavras
The Attack (Ziad Doueriri)
Zaytoun (Eran Riklis)
The Deep (Baltasar Kormakur)
Dreams For Sale (Nishikawa Miwa)
The Last Supper (Lu Chuan)
International/North American Premieres
To The Wonder (Terrence Malick)
Anna Karenina (Joe Wright)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Mira Nair)
The Company You Keep (Robert Redford)
Jayne Mansfield’s Car (Billy Bob Thornton)
A Royal Affair (Nikolai Arcel)
Dangerous Liasons (Hur Ji-Ho)
Thermae Romae (Hideki Takeuchi)
Caught In The Web (Chen Kaige)
Dormant Beauty (Marco Belloccchio)
Everybody Has A Plan (Ana Piterbarg) w/Viggo Mortensen
Kon-Tiki (Espen Sandberg
Reality (Matteo Garrone)
A Few Hours Of Spring (Stephan Brize)
The Hunt (Thomas Vintenberg)
The Iceman (Ariel Vromen)
Lore (Cate Shortland)
No (Pablo Larrain)
Outrage Beyond (Takeshi Kitano)
Rust And Bone (Jacques Audiard)
The Sapphires (Wayne Blair)
Tai Chi O (Stephen Fung)
