Fests, 9/6.

By way of Movie City News, the Toronto Star's previews of 79 of the 335 features and shorts to be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. You'll have to register to read them, but these succinct one-paragraph reviews probably add up to the fullest picture yet of the coming season in North America: By film title, A through D, E through M and M through Z.

Also, Peter Howell: "We asked 25 festival programmers, film critics and other experts to name the three movies they're most keen to see at this year's big show, which starts Thursday."

David Poland's festival previews and reviews roll on. James Mangold's Walk the Line: "[W]hen this duo [Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon] is on screen together, it is true movie magic." Neil Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto is "clearly the kinky indie find of the year so far. It is a masterwork from a master filmmaker."

The Hollywood Reporter's Anne Thompson picks out the highlights of the just-wrapped Telluride Film Festival.

In his review of the fest, Eugene Hernandez writes, "Three particularly clear examples of how much has changed in this country could be seen in a group of Telluride debuts that explore rural and urban America, mainly in the 1960s: Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, Bennett Miller's Capote and Martin Scorsese's No Direction Home." Also at indieWIRE: Pix.

Blake's getting excited about QT6 (September 9 through 17). And via Cinema Strikes Back: Chris Garcia has updates on Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Grind House, as well as Sin City parts II and III, in the Austin American-Statesman.

Austin's Fantastic Fest (October 6 through 9) has begun announcing titles; naturally, Matt Dentler has the lowdown.

Lee Man-hee will be the subject of a retrospective at the Pusan International Film Festival (October 6 through 14); Darcy Paquet looks back, focusing on the 1968 film, A Day Off. Also at Koreanfilm.org: Adam Hartzell on John H Lee's A Moment to Remember, screening at the New York Korean Film Festival (through September 11). Filmbrain's got his picks lined up and annotated.

Not a festival exactly, but it might as well be thought of as one: San Francisco's Other Cinema has unveiled its fall schedule; you'd be very, very hard pressed to find these films on the big screen anywhere else.

Reverse Shot's got more sneak previews of films to be screened at the New York Film Festival (September 23 through October 9): Caché, and Avenge But One of My Two Eyes.

Twitch has a terrific new design, and it's there that you can read one of Richard Brunton's final reviews from Edinburgh: Christian Alvert's Antibodies.

Boyd van Hoeij's got more photos and first impressions from Venice.

Posted by dwhudson at September 6, 2005 3:21 PM