TIFF Galas and Special Presentations Announced
July 24, 2013
Benedict Cumberbatch will call Toronto his home for a few
days in September, as he promotes three films. His Julian Assange / Wiki Leaks piece The
Fifth Estate opens the 38th annual Toronto International Film Festival
on September 5th. He plays the electronic
watchdog with the silvery white hair who endangers himself by publishing
secrets that embarrass governments, corporations and individuals.
Cumberbatch also stars in 12 Years a Slave the much
anticipated Steve McQueen film about a black freeman tricked into slavery in
the middle 1800’s, taken from the memoir of the same name. It co-stars Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt and
Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup, the slave.
Cumberbatch’ third outing is the southern Gothic domestic drama August:
Osage County with Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts and Ewan McGregor, based on the
award winning play.
12 Years a Slave
Jennifer Aniston
Over ten days audiences will be treated to a vast array of
films from all over the world in every genre.
Here is a look at some of the big name entries. Julia Louis –Dreyfus and the late James
Gandolfini star as lovers in Enough Said, Jesse Eisenberg battles himself in
The Double, George Clooney and Sandra Bullock are free floating in space in
Gravity, Ralph Fiennes is Charles Dickens in The Invisible Woman, and Nic Cage is down on his luck in Joe. Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin star in the
thriller Labor Day, and Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston star in Jim Jarmusch’
Only Lovers Left Alive.
Only Lovers Left Alive
Judi Dench and Steve Cogan team, up to find her long lost
son in star in Philomena and Hugh Jackman and Terrence Howard star in Prisoner,
set against the kidnapping of their children.
Liam Neeson, James Franco and the long absent Kim Basinger star in Paul
Haggis’ ensemble love story Third Person.
There’s the Beat generation biopic Kill Your Darlings (Daniel Radcliffe, John Huston), The Love Punch (Emma Thompson, Pierce
Brosnan) Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
(Idris Elba, Naomie Harris), the JFK assassination story Parkland (Paul
Giamatti, Billy Bob Thornton, Jacki Weaver), The Railway Men (Nicole Kidman,
Colin Firth), Ron Howard’s Rush (Chris
Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde), the spelling bee comedy Bad Words (Jason Bateman,
Allison Janney), the Cannes hit Blue is the Warmest Color, Can a Song Save Your
Life? (Keira Knightley, Adam Levine), Dallas Buyers Club (Matthew McConaughey,
Jennifer Garner) Atom Egoyan’s Devil’s Knot (Reese Witherspoon, Mireille Enos),
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her (Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy),
Dom Hemingway (Jude Law)and Don Jon (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson).
250 films comprise the 38th annual film fest, 16
galas, 55 Special Presentations and 40 world premieres. The festival runs September 5 – 15 at TIFF
Bell Lightbox, and theatres throughout lower downtown Toronto. Check
tiff.net/festival for further announcements, programmes, schedules and ticket
information. More films will be announced later this summer.
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