Latest Toronto Additions
September’s Toronto Film Festival (9.10 through 9.19) will debut Michael Moore‘s Capitalism: A Love Story — an expected but welcome addition — as well as Joel and Ethan Coen‘s A Serious Man, their “Jews in Minnesota” period comedy which I’ve been told works so well that the lack of star names will not be a problem.
Drew Barrymore‘s Whip It, which a friend says is a very decent little sports film-slash-character study, will also debut at the festival.
The other just-announced premieres include (a) Dorian Gray, Oliver Parker‘s re-mounting of the Oscar Wilde tale costarring Ben Barnes and Colin Firth that will unspool as a gala presentation (meh) , (b) Harry Brown, an urban western directed by Daniel Barber and starring Michael Caine (meh), (c) Perrier’s Bounty, an Irish gangster comedy with Jim Broadbent, Brendan Gleeson and Cillian Murphy (maybe, sounds promising) and Danis Tanovic‘s Triage, a war drama starring Colin Farrell (high expectations!).
I’m still waiting for the Coen’s to do “Yiddish Policemen’s Union”.
Meh is right. You forgot to mention Bad Lieutenant.
Hmmm. Not exactly sure what “I’ve been told” means, but maybe the Coens are on a hot streak. Almost gave up on ‘em in the years between Lebowski and NCFOM.
Can’t wait for the Coen Bros. flick, obviously. I hope they put some Dylan on the soundtrack, him being the ultimate Minnesota Jew….seems appropriate. And I’m interested in any movie with both Jim Broadbent & Brendan Gleeson in it. Back to the Coens, IMDB has “Hail Caesar” as their next flick – shame, I’d love to see “Yiddish…” next too – such a weird book.
“Meh” to Harry Brown? Caine’s spiritual successor to Get Carter/his own Gran Torino…? But a Drew Barrymore comedy about rollerskating makes the grade?
Why anyone would want to have their “own Gran Torino” could be pondered for centuries.
There must be some other details that separate the “meh” from the “promising”, because these all sound like they are potentially worth seeing to me.
I can only suppose that Jeff has never seen Michael Caine in Mike Hodge’s GET CARTER and so doesn’t realize that saying ‘meh” to Harry Brown makes him look like a dope.