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Director Hayao Miyazaki’s Animated Fantasy Epic ‘The Boy and the Heron’ to Open Toronto Film Festival

Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki’s animated fantasy epic, The Boy and the Heron, has been chosen to open this year’s 48th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The drama is set to screen on September 7 at Roy Thomson Hall concert hall in downtown Toronto, Variety is reporting. After being absent from making features…

Magnolia Pictures to Distribute Mary Harron’s Salvador Dali Film, ‘Dalíland’

Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to Mary Harron’s “Daliland” and is planning a theatrical release in 2023. The biopic about the legendary Surrealist, Salvador Dali, was the closing-night film in the recent Toronto Film Festival. It stars Ben Kingsley as the mature Dali and Ezra Miller as his younger incarnation. Barbara Sukowa plays…

Japan Society’s Flash Forward Series: Vision, A Herbal MacGuffin Leads To A Transcendental Journey

Japanese film director, Naomi Kawase, delivers a suave homage to the interactive complex of biological and nonbiological worlds on the planet, through her Vision. The French-Japanese drama — starring Juliette Binoche and Masatoshi Nagase, with Takanori Iwata, Minami, Mirai Moriyama in supporting roles — is part of Japan Society’s ACA Cinema Project series Flash Forward:…

Three Floors (Tre Piani) : Review / A Feuilleton Unworthy Of Moretti’s Lampoon Cinema

Italian director, Nanni Morreti, gathered 11 minutes of applause for the premiere of his latest work Three Floors (Tre Piani), at the Cannes Film Festival, before it went onto the Toronto Film Festival. This ovation baffles, since the adaptation of the eponymous book by Eshkol Nevo, one of the best written publications in recent times,…

Toronto Film Festival’s Line-Up: ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ to Debut on Opening Night

Stephen Chbosky’s screen adaptation of the Broadway musical, Dear Evan Hansen, has been selected to open the 46th annual Toronto International Film Festival this fall. “There was no question that Dear Evan Hansen was the ideal film to launch the festival this year,” Cameron Bailey, TIFF’s artistic director and co-head, said. “This film is ultimately…