Excited for the Fall

I know it's been a while! Sorry about that.
So it's finally fall, which means Oscar season. I hate the way the fall is labeled for all the deep dramatic and award-worthy films, but somehow that's when all the studios release them, so what can you do.

Toronto is one of my favourite cities in the world. It's where my family is, where I hope to live someday and where my favourite film festival is. The Toronto International Film Festival is (I can't wait until I'm living there during September soon). What I love about the TIFF is that they do premiere some fantastic films which do get recognized for awards, but they also release good films which are perhaps more controversial or a little too light to be filled with Oscar buzz. So a good mix of movies are shown there which is great.

Here are some of the movies that are showing there that I really want to see.

Appaloosa
I'm really interested to see this one. I happened to have skimmed through a draft of the script during Summer '07 when my aunt showed it to me (She's a manager in L.A), and it didn't seem that special. But now that I've seen the trailer it seems to have proven me wrong. Of course I'm biased because two of my with my love for Viggo Mortensen and Jeremy Irons.

Rachel Getting Married
I really like to see films that show a completely different side to an actor than I've seen before, and I think Rachel Getting Married will be just that. Anne Hathaway playing a drug addict who checks out of rehab for her sister's wedding? Sounds good to me. And Hathaway has been getting crazy buzz about her performance as is the actress who plays Rachel, her sister.

Burn After Reading
This is the first film by the Coen brothers post No Country glory. Its of the goofy ones they make, and it just looks like a great laugh.

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
This movie is based on one of my favourite books of all time (of the same name). The problem with movies based on books that you love are that you have SUCH high expectations for them. So, I'm praying that the movie is at least almost as good as the book, or it takes on a new direction. But based on the trailer, it seems that it wanted to stick really closely to the book. I love Michael Cera, and although he is definitely not how I imagined wannabe rock star Nick, I think he'll give the film a bit of a spin from the book.

You can youtube any of these to see the trailers, I'm feeling lazy. But you can thank me for hyperlinking youtube.

Enjoy!