Part six (you exhausted yet?) of our massive Toronto International Film Fest preview series is here. The festival kicks off tomorrow and we've got a quick refresher on a few of the big films that have premiered at other festivals earlier this year. Check 'em out below and come back tomorrow when we raise the curtain with our top picks!
Blue is the Warmest Color
Abdellatif Kechiche's three-hour lesbian love story swept through Cannes like a whirlwind and ran off with the most buzz and the Palme d'Or to boot. Earning every second of its runtime, this one shouldn't be missed when Sundance Selects brings it out October 25.
Read Ryland's review
Don Jon
No longer sporting the "Addiction" suffix, Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Sundance –premiering directorial debut co-starring Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Tony Danza, and Brie Larsen drops from Relativity on September 27.
Read Chase's review
The Great Beauty
As much a moving tableau as a narrative, Paolo Sorrentino's beautiful and touching cinematographical marvel will be released in the US by Janus films on November 15. It debuted to wide-eyed audiences in competition at Cannes.
Read Fausto's review
Blood Ties
Frenchman Guillaume Canet's family crime saga didn't exactly light up the Cannes audiences when it premiered there out of competition. Roadside will be releasing the tense drama stateside and will hopefully find a more adoring audience for the solid cast in the US than overseas.
Read Ryland's review
Omar
Another Cannes premiere, this one in the Un Certain Regard section, Hany Abu-Assad's (Paradise Now) story of the limits of childhood friendship between Palestinians has yet to find a home with a US distrib.
Only Lovers Left Alive
It was all sorts of exciting when Cannes announced they would be premiering Jim Jarmusch's Tom Hiddlestone, Tilda Swinton, John Hurt, Mia Wasikowska, and Anton Yelchin starring vampire tale. But then the curveball; they announced it wouldn't premiere until most American journalists had already left for home! Alas, TIFF saves the day by screening the much-anticipated film ahead of a Sony Classics release sometime soon.
The Past
Asghar Farhadi catapulted onto everyone's directors-to-watch list with A Separation a few years back. His latest is this Paris-set relationship drama starring Berenice Bejo, Rahim Tahar, Ali Mosaffa, and Pauline Burlet that Sony Classics will release on December 20.
Read Brian's review
Borgman
There is very little not to like about Alex van Wamerdam's mischief-filled family tale. It got everyone at Cannes howling "Borgman!" so loud that Drafthouse Films had no choice but to pick it up.
Read Brian's review
Child's Pose
Winner of the top prize Golden Bear at this year's Berlin fest, this female-driven Romanian drama is the third feature by Calin Peter Netzer after Maria and Medal of Honor.
Blue Ruin
Jeremy Saulnier's Cannes-premiering follow-up to freshman effort Murder Party was scooped up at the fest by RADiUS who have yet to slap a date on the revenge flick.
Read Brian's review
The Missing Picture
We didn't hear a whole lot about this film at Cannes, but Rithy Panh's Un Certain Regard Prize-winning film recreates the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge via clay figurines. It screens at TIFF as part of Wavelengths.
Bastards
One Un Certain Regard film that certainly had the Cannes audience talking was this extremely divisive revenge tale by Claire Denis. Sundance Selects will be bringing it to US audiences soon.
Read Brian's review
Kill Your Darlings
Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, Jack Huston, Ben Foster, David Cross, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Elizabeth Olsen, Kyra Sedgwick, and John Cullum star in John Krokidas's "Teen Beats" Sundance drama. Sony Classics has scooped it up for an October 18 release.