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26
August 2006
Brad
Pitt Heads For Toronto
Festival
Brad
Pitt,
Russell Crowe and
Cate
Blanchett
are among the stars set
to attend the Toronto
Film
Festival.
Brad
Pitt and Cate Blanchett
star in the
multi-lingual drama
Babel, which will be
screened at the Canadian
event.
Director
Sir Ridley Scott will
accompany Crowe for the
world premiere of their
film A Good Year, which
is based on the book A
Year in
Provence.
Organisers
say 352 films will be
shown at the annual
festival, which is one
of the largest in North
America.
More
than 100 movies will
receive world premieres
at the event, including
Kenneth Branagh's The
Magic Flute and All the
King's Men, starring
Sean Penn.
Entries
come from 61 countries -
with films from
Portugal, South Korea,
Turkey and Russia in the
line-up.
"The
festival's tentacles are
truly in every part of
the world," said
festival director Piers
Handling.
Now
in its 31st year, the
festival now sits
alongside Cannes and
Sundance as a major
movie
showcase.
"Our
selections have a big
impact on the Oscars and
the Golden Globes" said
festival co-director
Noah Cowan.
Stars
and directors attending
this year's event
include Anthony
Hopkins,
Yoko Ono, Jude Law,
Dustin Hoffman and
Michael
Moore.
The
festival opens with The
Journals of Knud
Rasmussen, which
examines the history of
Inuit people in
Canada.
A
documentary called The
Prisoner Or: How I
Planned To Kill Tony
Blair, examining an
Iraqi cameraman's
wrongful arrest and
interrogation by
American forces, will be
premiered at the
event.
Films
about the Dixie Chicks,
Kurt Cobain and John
Lennon are also in the
documentary
line-up.
Closing
the festival is the
world premiere of
Amazing Grace, which
tells the story of
William Wilberforce's
campaign to end slavery
in the British
Empire.
The
film stars Ioan Gruffudd
as Wilberforce and
Benedict Cumberbatch as
British Prime Minister
William Pitt.
Ken
Loach's Irish drama The
Wind that Shakes the
Barley, which won the
Palme d'Or at this
year's Cannes Film
Festival, will also be
screened.
The
Canadian festival runs
from 7 to 16 September
2006.
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