Toronto Film Festival: 'Cloud Atlas,' 'Looper,' Terrence Malick, Joss Whedon, and more

Organizers for September’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) announced a slate of movies guaranteed to please cinephiles. The festival will open with Rian Johnson’s time-twisty thriller Looper, and will also include the world premiere of the mysterious Wachowski/Tykwer collabo-adaptation of Cloud Atlas, Ben Affleck’s true-life thriller Argo, David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook, and Joss Whedon’s shot-in-a-fortnight adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. The festival will also feature the next movie by auteur Terrence Malick, the Ben Affleck/Rachel McAdams headlined To The Wonder. (That makes two Terrence Malick movies in two consecutive years — a new record!) Other big names include Neil Jordan, Mira Nair, Robert Redford, and Bill Murray, who plays FDR in Hyde Park on the Hudson. Check out the complete schedule below:

World Premieres

Looper (Rian Johnson) (Opening Film)

Cloud Atlas (The Wachowskis & Tom Tykwer)

Argo (Ben Affleck)

Silver Linings Playbook (David O Russell)

Love, Marilyn (Liz Garbus)

Free Angela And All Political Prisoners (Shola Lynch)

The Place Beyond The Pines (Derek Cianfrance)

Midnight’s Children (Deepa Mehta)

Hyde Park On Hudson (Roger Michell)

Great Expectations (Mike Newell)

Inescapable (Rubba Nadda)

Twice Born (Sergio Castellitto)

English Vinglish (Gauri Shinde)

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)

Thanks For Sharing (Stuart Blumberg)

End Of Watch (David Ayer)

Imogene (Robert Puccini and Shari Springer Berman)

A Late Quartet (Yaron Zilberman)

Much Ado About Nothing (Joss Whedon)

Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)

The Time Being (Nenad Cicin-Sain)

Writers (Josh Boone)

At Any Price (Ramin Bahrani)

Venus And Serena (Maiken Baird)

Byzantium (Neil Jordan)

Quartet (Dustin Hoffman)

Ginger And Rosa (Sally Potter)

A Liar’s Autobiography (Ben Timlett, Bill JOnes, Jeff Simpson)

Foxfire (Laurnet Cantet)

In The House (Francois Ozon)

The Impossible (JA Bayona

Hannah Arendt (Margarethe Von Trotta)

Mr. Pip (Andrew Adamson)

Capital (Costa-Gavras

The Attack (Ziad Doueriri)

Zaytoun (Eran Riklis)

The Deep (Baltasar Kormakur)

Dreams For Sale (Nishikawa Miwa)

The Last Supper (Lu Chuan)

International/North American Premieres

To The Wonder (Terrence Malick)

Anna Karenina (Joe Wright)

The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Mira Nair)

The Company You Keep (Robert Redford)

Jayne Mansfield’s Car (Billy Bob Thornton)

A Royal Affair (Nikolai Arcel)

Dangerous Liasons (Hur Ji-Ho)

Thermae Romae (Hideki Takeuchi)

Caught In The Web (Chen Kaige)

Dormant Beauty (Marco Belloccchio)

Everybody Has A Plan (Ana Piterbarg) w/Viggo Mortensen

Kon-Tiki (Espen Sandberg

Reality (Matteo Garrone)

A Few Hours Of Spring (Stephan Brize)

The Hunt (Thomas Vintenberg)

The Iceman (Ariel Vromen)

Lore (Cate Shortland)

No (Pablo Larrain)

OUtrage Beyond (Takeshi Kitano)

Rust And Bone (Jacques Audiard)

The Sapphires (Wayne Blair)

Tai Chi O (Stephen Fung)

Canadian Premiere

The Sessions (Ben Lewis)

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