The Toronto International Film Festival released their galas and special presentations lineup on Tuesday morning, the first in a series of announcements prior to the Sept. 5 start of the festival.
Speaking from Toronto on Monday, both executive director Joana Vicente and artistic director Cameron Bailey, co-heads ofJOAQUIN PHOENIX as Arthur Fleck in 'Joker,' from Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures and BRON Creative.“We went in not knowing exactly what to expect, but it is a really original vision of this character,” said Bailey. “It’s not based on existing DC canonical work and so that allows Todd Phillips to go in a new direction.
“But really what we’re looking for every year, is just films that move us, films that we think are going to move our audiences, films that reflect the best that we can find in cinema,” Bailey said. “And then some of them go on to win big prizes, but we can’t know that going in. So we’re just really looking for the best films we can find from all over the world. And we’ve got a lot of them here this year.
Among titles announced Tuesday that premiered elsewhere earlier in the year are Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite,” which won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” Ira Sachs’ “Frankie,” Alma Har’el’s “Honey Boy,” Robert Eggers’s “The Lighthouse,” Scott Z. Burns’ “The Report” and Makoto Shinkai’s animated “Weathering With You.
Hmm...will it follow her real life escapades of drugging, raping, and robbing men?
Joker premiering here means they think it has Oscar potential! Was really hoping so after seeing how brilliant Joaquin Phoenix was in the first trailer.
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