This morning the lineup for the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival was announced, and it’s the best lineup in recent film festival memory.
The opening night gala film is Rian Johnson’s time travel thriller Looper, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, and Emily Blunt. Ben Affleck’s historical thriller Argo will also appear, as will the Wachowskis’ Cloud Atlas, starring Tom Hanks, Ben Whishaw, Hugo Weaving, Susan Sarandon, Jim Broadbent, Jim Sturgess, Hugh Grant, James D’Arcy, and Halle Berry. David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert DeNiro will premiere; Blue Valentine duo Derek Cianfrance and Ryan Gosling will premiere The Place Beyond the Pines; Hyde Park on Hudson starring Bill Murray as FDR will appear. Lastly Mike Newell’s Great Expectations will premiere at the fest.
Also premiering at the festival are Neil Jordan’s Byzantium, starring Saoirse Ronan; The Perks of Being a Wallflower starring Emma Watson; Juan Antonio Bayona’s The Impossible with Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts will also premiere. Joss Whedon will also bring his self-produced Much Ado About Nothing to the festival, and the Kristen Wiig feature Imogene will appear.
Of note elsewhere, though likely not premiering at the festival, are Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder and Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina.
Hypable is hoping to bring coverage from the festival, as it’s more than likely to feature several Oscar contenders.
Without further ado, here’s the full list. Note: We’ve highlighted the more important films on the list.
– A Royal Affair (dir. Nikolai Arcel) – Denmark/Sweden/Czech Republic/Germany
– Argo (dir. Ben Affleck) – USA
– The Company You Keep (dir. Robert Redford) – USA
– Dangerous Liaisons (dir. Hur Jin-ho) – China
– English Vinglish (dir. Gauri Shinde) – India
– Free Angela and All Political Prisoners (dir. Shola Lynch) – USA/France
– Great Expectations (dir. Mike Newell) – United Kingdom
– Hyde Park on Hudson (dir. Roger Michell) – United Kingdom
– Inescapable (dir. Ruba Nadda) – Canada
– Jayne Mansfield’s Car (dir. Billy Bob Thornton) – USA/Russia
– Looper (dir. Rian Johnson) – USA [Opening Film]
– Love, Marilyn (dir. Liz Garbus) – USA
– Midnight’s Children (dir. Deepa Mehta) – Canada/ United Kingdom
– The Reluctant Fundamentalist (dir. Mira Nair) – USA
– Silver Linings Playbook (dir. David O. Russell) – USA
– Thermae Romae (dir. Hideki Takeuchi) – Japan
– Twice Born (dir. Sergio Castellitto) – Italy/Spain/Croatia
– A Few Hours of Spring (dir. Stephane Brize) – France
– Anna Karenina (dir. Joe Wright) – United Kingdom
– At Any Price (dir. Ramin Bahrani) – United Kingdom/USA
– The Attack (dir. Ziad Doueiri) – France
– Byzantium (dir. Neil Jordan) – United Kingdom
– Capital (dir. Costa-Gavras) – France
– Caught in the Web (dir. Chen Kaige) – Japan/China
– Cloud Atlas (dir. Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski) – USA
– The Deep (dir. Baltasar Kormakur) – Iceland/Norway
– Dormant Beauty (dir. Marco Bellocchio) – Italy/France
– Dreams for Sale (dir. Nishikawa Miwa) – Japan
– End Of Watch (dir. David Ayer) – USA
– Everybody Has A Plan (dir. Ana Piterbarg) – Argentina
– Foxfire (dir. Laurent Cantet) – France/Canada
– Frances Ha (dir. Noah Baumbach) – USA
– Ginger and Rosa (dir. Sally Potter) – United Kingdom
– Hannah Arendt (dir. Margarethe von Trotta) – Germany
– The Hunt (dir. Thomas Vinterberg) – Denmark
– The Iceman (dir. Ariel Vromen) – USA
– Imogene (dir. Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman) – USA
– The Impossible (dir. J.A. Bayona) – Spain/USA
– In the House (dir. Francois Ozon) – France
– Kon-Tiki (dir. Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg) – United Kingdom/Norway/Denmark
– The Last Supper (dir. Lu Chuan) – China
– A Late Quartet (dir. Yaron Zilberman) – USA
– A Liar’s Autobiography – The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman
Ben Timlett, Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson) – United Kingdom
– Lore (dir. Cate Shortland) – Australia/United Kingdom/Germany
– Mr. Pip (dir. Andrew Adamson) – New Zealand
– Much Ado About Nothing (dir. Joss Whedon) – USA
– No (dir. Pablo Larrain) – Chile/USA
– Outrage Beyond (dir. Takeshi Kitano) – Japan
– The Perks of Being a Wallflower (dir. Stephen Chbosky) – USA
– The Place Beyond the Pines (dir. Derek Cianfrance) – USA
– Quartet (dir. Dustin Hoffman) – United Kingdom
– Reality (dir. Matteo Garrone) – Italy/France
– Rust and Bone (dir. Jacques Audiard) – France/Belgium
– The Sapphires (dir. Wayne Blair) – Australia
– The Sessions (dir. Ben Lewin) – USA
– Tai Chi 0 (dir. Stephen Fung) – China
– Thanks for Sharing (dir. Stuart Blumberg) – USA
– The Time Being (dir. Nenad Cicin-Sain) – USA
– To The Wonder (dir. Terrence Malick) – USA
– Venus and Serena (dir. Maiken Baird) – USA
– Writers (dir. Josh Boone) – USA
– Zaytoun (dir. Eran Riklis) – United Kingdom/Israel
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