The rain and the cold of the Telluride Film Festival is over, Johnny Depp was placed by some pundits in top spot for the Best Actor after Black Mass screened. On to the Toronto Film Festival where Jake Gyllenhaal’s Demolition was screened, and The Martian received its premiere. The latter was described by The Toronto Sun’s Steve Tilley as a “captivating adventure.”
- This week, we had the new trailers for more Oscar contenders; Room and Carol. We were also treated to the first trailer of The Program starring Ben Foster and Our Brand is In Crisis
- Ava DuVernay launched Array, a new distribution collective for filmmakers of diverse backgrounds, including blacks, Latinos, women and more in her efforts to diversify storytelling and validate minority voices through film.
- Ava DuVernay will be honored at The Toronto Film Festival with the Roger Ebert Tribute award, better known as the Golden Thumb Award,
- The Danish Girl took home the Queer Lion award at the Venice Film Festival. The Jury Grand Prize was awarded to “Anomalisa,” Charlie Kaufman Duke Johnson. The full list of winners can be found here.
- M. Night Shyamalan return to the silver screen with The Visit is set to take the top spot at the box office.
Thanks Jazz. 🙂
I’m bummed to hear about Snowden getting pushed to 2016. 🙁
@paddy – you were right. The Perfect Guy claimed #1
Al – your October schedule looks fabulous.
Two quibbles:
– The trailer that was posted for The Program wasn’t the film’s first trailer, it was its second.
– The Visit is currently sitting at #2 for the estimated weekend. If it does claim first, it’ll have to squeeze past The Perfect Guy, with which it’s in a very close race for the top spot at the box office.
Matt, that’s pretty cool you get to see Steve Jobs at the New York Film Festival. From what I’ve read about the film, it’s gonna be interesting to see Michael Fassbender in the title role. I hope you enjoy it Matt. Have fun! 🙂
Al, I like your schedule for October. Your month is booked. I am seeing Steve Jobs at the NYFF on
October 3nd, but I plan to follow your schedule for the rest.
It looks like I Saw the Light and Our Brand is Crisis weren’t well received at TIFF.
Yeah I really wish I’d had the funds to attempt Toronto. Looks like NYFF isn’t going to work out for me either. Tix haven’t gone on sale to the public yet and all the good stuff is sold out. Had I known that would be the case I’d have thought a little harder about TIFF. Probably still wouldn’t have gone but all my favorite people were there with the films I’m looking most forward to. So it’s turning into quite the bummer. To go all the way to NY to try to be standby for movies I’m only mildly interested in? Eh… I feel like things were easier not that long ago. Maybe it’s old age.
So I guess I’ll continue to hope that most of the movies play here on time. Meaning when it says October 2nd, it means October 2nd everywhere. Not just NY and LA and fancy pants “select cities”.
Anyway, for the record what I’m looking forward to is seeing my co-#1 favorite actor, Benicio Del Toro, in SICARIO. He’s got good notices but I still don’t know if he’s Supporting or Lead. No one tells me anything. After that I’m glad to find out that Sean Bean (my #3) is somewhat in THE MARTIAN. I was worried he was going to be a computer voice or something. lol Problem is I got the movie spoiled for me one sentence into a review on Cinema Blend. Don’t go there. Then of course BLACK MASS which is so far my guess for BP. LEGEND, I honestly wouldn’t be interested in if it weren’t for Tom Hardy. So there’s that. EVEREST, I’m curious about but I still think they’re going to end up eating each other. What looked like a banner year for Jake Gyllenhaal (my #5) looks like it might be turning into a dud. Then the Christmastime movies which probably mean that for me, they’ll be the Next Year Time movies. I don’t even remember when STONEWALL is coming out. I’d like there to be a nomination worthy performance from JRM (my #7) but if I bring that up Paddy’ll bust a gasket. I’m just realizing that two movies I’d been looking forward to for this year BLEED FOR THIS and KNIGHT OF CUPS must have moved to next year. Those also have my peeps in them. Anywho, there’s so much going on that my head is spinning and being lulled to sleep all at once.
I love weeks like this. So much to talk about. I wish I was attending the Toronto IFF because I want to see all these great films now. I don’t want to wait any longer.
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I’ll add that Steve Jobs’ wide release was moved to October 23. It will still be released in limited release on October 9. I am fine with this since I can space them out better. My plan is to see:
The Martian – weekend of October 2 – 4
The Walk – weekend of October 9 – 11
Bridge of Spies – weekend of October 16 – 18
Steve Jobs – weekend of October 23 – 25