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The Toronto Film FestivalThe Toronto Film Festival looks really good
Lord Attenborough's new movie is to be shown at the Festival, organisers have announced.
The 83-year-old veteran film-maker's Closing The Ring is among a host of galas completing this year's line-up.
His film is about A young man who searches for the proper owner of a ring that belonged to a United States World War II bomber pilot who crashed in Ireland 50 years ago.
Kenneth Branagh's Sleuth, starring Sir Michael Caine and Jude Law, will also screen at the festival, which runs in the Canadian city from 6-15 September.
Sleuth is a remake of the old 1972 film......Caine will play a brilliant thriller writer who's so upset at losing his wife to a young hairdresser
(Law) that he hatches a complex revenge plan. Coincidentally, Caine played the hairdresser in the original, while Laurence Olivier played the writer.
Woody Allen's film Cassandra has already been announced as making its North American debut at the event.
This film is about the tale of two brothers (Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell) with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies
Other new films which have been added to the line-up include Cleaner starring Samuel L Jackson, who plays a character called Tom, an extremely hygienic man who uses this urge in his professional life as a crime scene cleaner. When he somehow becomes involved in a job he later finds out was a covered up murder, he gets tied in to a web of deception, that unearth his own family's long buried pain and secrets.
and The Walker from screenwriter Paul Schrader, about an escort (Woody Harrelson) who caters to Washington D.C.'s society ladies becomes involved in a murder case....Kristin Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall, William Defoe and Ned Beatty also star
The Golden Age, sequel to 1998 film Elizabeth, will make its world premiere at the festival. The film sees Cate Blanchett reprise her role as the Tudor monarch, and centres on a threatened invasion from Spain.
Oscar-winning actress Helen Hunt will also make her directorial debut at the Canadian event with Then She Found Me. which displays a New York schoolteacher (Helen Hunt) hitting a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her real one, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside
down as she (April) begins a courtship with the father (Colin Firth) of one of her students... Matthew Broderick and Bette Midler also star!!
Actor Max Von Sydow, who appeared in a string of late director Ingmar Bergman's films, will present a screening of one of his works, The Virgin Spring which is a 1960 Swedish film set in medieval Sweden, it is a revenge tale about a family's response to the murder of their daughter.
Some great movies there by the look of it!!
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