German auteur Wim Wenders returns to drama after a string of documentaries, casting James Franco as a man spending years agonising over the death of a small girl he accidentally hits with his car. Up the mountain they go: Jake Gyllenhaal, Keira Knightley and Sam Worthington. Everestīaltasar Kormákur’s film is based on a disastrous 1996 expedition on which several climbers died. Guy Pearce and Jacki Weaver are the chief support, which bodes well. This one co-stars Nicholas Hoult and Kirsten Stewart and is set in a future in which emotions have been eradicated. Equalsĭrake Doremus won Sundance’s audience and jury prizes with Like Crazy, but that film didn’t have the same legs as, say, Whiplash, and sexual tension muso drama Breathe In also failed to score long-term. Jason Segel is David Foster Wallace and Jesse Eisenberg the Rolling Stone journalist following him on a five-day book tour in this eagerly-anticipated drama about the late novelist. Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel in The End of the Tour
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Isabelle Huppert and Paul Verhohen make a weirdly heavenly match, and the plot of this thriller - about the CEO of a computer gaming company with a sex kitten mother, serial killer con father, plus assorted lovers and a stalker who she handles with “icy equanimity” sounds lots of fun.
A word of caution: this is only Sorrentino’s second English-language movie, and the first was This Must Be The Place. The 21 May Italian release date suggests a Cannes premiere. Rachel Weisz will play Caine’s daughter, who’s holidaying with him in Switzerland when he gets the call from Her Maj. Michael Caine plays an aging conductor asked to perform for the queen in Paolo Sorrentino’s follow-up to the Oscar-winning The Great Beauty. Also features Jemaine Clement, Amy Ryan, Danny McBride, Leslie Bibb and Will Forte. Don VerdeanĪ faith comedy from Napoleon Dynamite’s Jared and Jerusha Hess in which Sam Rockwell plays a biblical archeologist. Also features post-mumblecore cohorts Rosemarie DeWitt, Brie Larson, Sam Rockwell – and Orlando Bloom.
Joe Swanberg, Jake Johnson and Anna Kendrick reunite a couple of years after Drinking Buddies for another relationship tale. Naomi Watts and Chris Cooper are there to help pick up the pieces. Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club, Wild) puts Jake Gyllenhaal through hell as an investment banker who goes to bits after the tragic death of his wife. It’s shooting early 2015, so there’s a chance it may be finished for the end of the year.ĭark comedy. Prolific French-Canadian wonderkid Xavier Dolan (he’s on to his sixth feature, at only 25 years old) excavates the life of an actor who is accused of paedophilia, in his English language debut. Kathryn Hahn and Jeffrey Tambor also feature. Jack Black and James Marsden are high school acquiantances who become buddies at their 20th reunion. James Marsden and Jack Black in D-Train Photograph: Sundance Institute Tom Hiddleston is the husband of questionable morality who is starting to scare his innocent young bride (Mia Wasikowska). Guillermo del Toro creaks open the door to another haunted house horror. Tom Rob Smith’s thriller about a Soviet secret policeman gets a screen makeover with Tom Hardy as Leo Demidov, charged with investigating a string of gruesome child murders. Autumn release planned, so Venice/Toronto premiere likely. Todd (I’m Not There) Haynes adapts Patricia Highsmith’s lesbian romance, The Price of Salt, with Rooney Mara as the young shopgirl who falls in love with Cate Blanchett’s sophisticated older woman in 1950s New York.
But it’s not as grim as that might suggest: it’s billed as a romcom, and stars Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson and Emory Cohen (Bradley Cooper and Rose Byrne’s son from The Place Beyond the Pines). US release is set for September, with Toronto festival slot possible beforehand.ĭirected by John Crowley – and adapted by Nick Hornby from the book by Colm Tóibín – this is set in 1950s Ireland and features Jim Broadbent. Kevin Bacon plays the Fed who eventually takes him down.
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Long-gestating gangster yarn, with Johnny Depp as Whitey Bulger, the Irish-American crime boss who was given a free hand for decades by the FBI due to his value as an informer.