The 2019 Toronto International Film Festival's first wave of films includes Knives Out, Joker, and more
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If you’re still on the fence about attending the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, perhaps today’s announcement will give you the push you need. TIFF announced the first wave of films playing the festival this year, including a handful of exciting and intriguing titles—even if you’re merely watching from the sidelines, there’s plenty here to be curious about, from Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit to Todd Phillips’ Joker and Rian Johnson’s Knives Out. The fest, which kicks off in Toronto on September 5 and runs through September 15, has unveiled its Gala and Special Presentations programs, which also include premieres from Steven Soderbergh, Josh and Benny Safdie, James Mangold, and more. Below, check out some of the highlights premiering at TIFF this year, courtesy of IndieWire:
- A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood, the Mister Rogers biopic directed by Marielle Heller, the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Diary Of A Teenage Girl and Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Joker, starring Joaquin Phoenix as Batman’s arch-nemesis. Directed by Todd Phillips, the film promises to explore the Clown Prince Of Crime’s origins through the tonal lens of classics like The King Of Comedy and Taxi Driver.
- Knives Out, Rian Johnson’s highly-anticipated ode to Agatha Christie mysteries featuring an insane ensemble cast.
- Jojo Rabbit, the dark World War II comedy (yes, really) from Taika Waititi.
- From the Safdie brothers, directors of Good Time and Heaven Knows What, comes Uncut Gems, a new dramedy starring Adam Sandler (of all people!)
- James Mangold’s Ford V Ferrari, starring Christian Bale and Matt Damon.
- Just Mercy, a new drama from Short Term 12 director Daniel Destin Cretton, starring Michael B. Jordan.
- Brooklyn director John Crowley’s adaptation of Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Goldfinch, starring Ansel Elgort.
- Dolemite Is My Name, the Rudy Ray Moore biopic starring Eddie Murphy and directed by Craig Brewer from a screenplay by Scott Alexander and Larry Karazsewski (The People Vs. Larry Flynt).
- Honey Boy, starring Shia LaBeouf in a story inspired by his own youth.
For the full lineup—which is indeed excellent—head over to IndieWire.
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The Rudy Ray Moore biopic could be absolutely incredible or a folly of Klumps-ian proportions.
See my above post. I’m leaning heavily toward folly.
Dolemite Is My Name, the Rudy Ray Moore biopic starring Eddie Murphy and directed by Craig Brewer from a screenplay by Scott Alexander and Larry Karazsewski (The People Vs. Larry Flynt).What Alexander and Karazsewski will do is show us a bunch of things that Rudy Ray Moore did, in sequence, with no sense of a theme or any narrative drive whatsoever. They basically read biographies then dictate them into screenplay form, leaving out the hard part of writing something with any semblance of acute observation about the person they’re memorializing. They do it every single time, and this movie will almost certainly lie there like a dead fish. But everybody will say Eddie Murphy seems “just like Rudy Ray Moore,” which he could just as readily accomplish in an SNL sketch the next time he’s the guest host.
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Yes, but what of ‘The Lighthouse’!?!? ‘The Lighthouse’, I tells ya!!
Ford v Ferrari is prob my most anticipated for the rest of the year, can’t wait to hear about it so soon!
Jojo Rabbit, the dark World War II comedy (yes, really)*clutches pearls*
I really don’t understand this oddball Joker movie. It strikes me like it is in the same universe as Halle Berry’s Catwoman. Related but only in the most basic sense of the DC Universe.
That’s a pretty stacked list. I will try to score tickets this year, a lot on that list i want to see. Jojo Rabbit is at the top for me, but so many of these look great.