Films by Jolie and Clooney on TIFF schedule
TORONTO — A comedy-drama directed by George Clooney and a biographical thriller made by Angelina Jolie will be shown at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
Organizers said Clooney’s home-invasion comedy-drama Suburbicon, written by the Coen brothers and starring Matt Damon and Julianne Moore, is among the titles in the festival.
The schedule also includes Jolie’s First They Killed My Father, which she also co-wrote, based on Cambodian human rights activist Loung Ung’s memoir.
The Tragically Hip documentary Long Time Running, directed by Canadians Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier, will have a gala opening.
Other films on the bill include David Gordon Green’s Boston Marathon bombing drama Stronger, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Regina native Tatiana Maslany.
Darren Aronofsky’s psychological thriller Mother!, starring Jennifer Lawrence, is also part of the annual movie marathon that runs from Sept. 7 to 17.
The schedule has a slew of starpacked biopics, including Darkest Hour, starring Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill, and I, Tonya, starring Margot Robbie as ice skater Tonya Harding.
In Battle Of The Sexes, Steve Carell and Emma Stone star in a story inspired by the 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.
The Catcher Was A Spy stars Paul Rudd as Major League Baseball player Moe Berg, who spied for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services.
Canada’s Michael Greyeyes stars as Sitting Bull alongside Jessica Chastain and Sam Rockwell in the Woman Walks Ahead, based on the true story of a 19thcentury portrait painter.
Cinephiles have been wondering whether Quebec-based director Denis Villeneuve’s muchanticipated Blade Runner sequel will be at the festival, but it was not in the lineup announced on Tuesday.
The festival had already said it was cutting two programs and reducing the overall number of titles it will screen this year by 20 per cent.
Other highlights of this year’s festival include: • Hany Abu-Assad’s The Mountain Between Us, starring Kate Winslet and Idris Elba as plane-crash survivors. • Andy Serkis’s Breathe, a biographical drama starring Andrew Garfield as a paralyzed polio survivor who becomes an advocate for the disabled. • Scott Cooper’s period drama Hostiles, starring Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Adam Beach and Ben Foster. • Guillermo Del Toro’s romantic horror The Shape Of Water, starring Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon and Octavia Spencer.