{"id":228788,"date":"2019-08-30T06:52:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T10:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=228788"},"modified":"2019-08-30T06:52:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T10:52:24","slug":"whats-the-buzz-tiff-organizers-on-the-films-that-will-get-audiences-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/08\/30\/whats-the-buzz-tiff-organizers-on-the-films-that-will-get-audiences-talking\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s the buzz? TIFF organizers on the films that will get audiences talking"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Toronto International Film Festival kicks off Sept. 5 with another slew of star-studded titles predicted to get awards season love \u2014\u00a0from a high-octane look at rivalling car companies on the racing circuit, to a powerful true story of a civil rights defence lawyer, and a slick murder mystery. (File Photo<\/a>: Marco Manna\/Flickr<\/a>, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TORONTO \u2014\u00a0Cinephiles and Oscars prognosticators, it’s time to start your engines.<\/p>\n

The Toronto International Film Festival kicks off Sept. 5 with another slew of star-studded titles predicted to get awards season love \u2014\u00a0from a high-octane look at rivalling car companies on the racing circuit, to a powerful true story of a civil rights defence lawyer, and a slick murder mystery.<\/p>\n

Here are some 2019 festival titles that will likely get much buzz, according to co-head\/artistic director Cameron Bailey and senior director of film Diana Sanchez.<\/p>\n

“Ford v Ferrari”<\/p>\n

Both Bailey and Sanchez predict big things for this biographical drama starring Matt Damon as American car designer Carroll Shelby and Christian Bale as British driver Ken Miles.<\/p>\n

James Mangold directed the story, which follows the two as they build a revolutionary Ford Motor Company racing car to rival that of the Enzo Ferrari team at a prestigious race in France in 1966.<\/p>\n

“Matt Damon and Christian Bale play so well off each other in the story that’s two and a half hours yet you’re watching it and you’re like, ‘I could stay here forever,”‘ says Sanchez.<\/p>\n

“Just Mercy”<\/p>\n

Bailey and Sanchez are also in agreement on this true story starring Michael B. Jordan as renowned civil rights defence lawyer Bryan Stevenson. Jamie Foxx co-stars as Walter McMillian, a pulpwood worker who was on death row until Stevenson helped exonerate him in Alabama in 1993.<\/p>\n

Brie Larson and O’Shea Jackson Jr. also star in the story from director Destin Daniel Cretton.<\/p>\n

“I think ‘Just Mercy’ is a film that will leave people devastated,”\u00a0says Bailey. “It’s an incredibly powerful, emotional film.”<\/p>\n

“Knives Out”<\/p>\n

Sanchez is excited about this murder mystery starring Daniel Craig as a detective investigating the death of a renowned crime novelist, played by Toronto acting legend Christopher Plummer.<\/p>\n

Rian Johnson directed the dark comedy, which also includes actors Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Don Johnson, and Michael Shannon.<\/p>\n

“It’s an Agatha Christie, star-studded, ramped-up whodunit … and it’s just a lot of fun to watch,”\u00a0says Sanchez.<\/p>\n

Bailey’s other picks:<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0“Joker,”\u00a0directed by Todd Phillips and starring Joaquin Phoenix as the comic-book supervillain: “I do think ‘Joker’ will be a film that people will pay a lot of attention to for its filmmaking and for its performance by Joaquin Phoenix.”<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0“Hustlers,”\u00a0directed by Lorene Scafaria and starring Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez, Cardi B, Keke Palmer, and Julia Stiles as former strippers who target Wall Street clients: “I think ‘Hustlers’ is going to be a real talking point for months to come.”<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0“Jojo Rabbit,”\u00a0a Second World War comic satire directed by Taika Waititi, who also stars as Adolf Hitler in a cast that also includes Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, and Rebel Wilson: “A satire with heart, with deep emotion as well, and from one of the most exciting filmmakers working.”<\/p>\n

Sanchez’s other picks:<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0“Antigone”\u00a0by Quebecois filmmaker Sophie Deraspe, which reimagines a Greek tragedy and stars Nahema Ricci as an immigrant to Montreal trying to help her family: “It’s a story about love, about standing up for what you believe in, but it also tells the story of what it’s like for immigrants in Canada.”<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0“Pain and Glory”\u00a0by Pedro Almodovar, a Spanish drama that recently earned Antonio Banderas an award at the Cannes Film Festival for playing an aging filmmaker in an existential crisis: “There’s something just really moving about that film and its celebration of art and what it’s like to age.”<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0“Parasite,”\u00a0the Cannes festival\u2014winning thriller by Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho, about a poor family who schemes its way into the lives of a wealthy household: “‘Parasite’ is a lot of fun…. We’ve shown a lot of (Bong Jooh-ho) films here and I think a lot of people are waiting on this one.”<\/p>\n

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